Persuasive Essay On Fur Farms

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Fur Farming Are you wearing clothes made of real animal fur? Do you even care!? You should and most likely will after you finish reading my essay. The average person doesn’t look at the label on their clothes to see its export. The average person doesn’t know how the animals end up in their situation. Fur farms must be shut down. China, the largest fur exporter in the world, has no penalty for fur farms. No wonder it’s the largest exporter. Before I tell you about fur farms, you must know what they are. Fur farms are where the animals are brutally skinned. After this treatment, the animal is unable to live. The most common animal killed for its fur are minks. In second place are foxes. Believe it or not, your loved companions, dogs and cats, are skinned alive. Some are taken from their original owners! In the US, it is illegal to sell cat or dog fur. Yet racoon dog fur is very popularly sold in the US as it slips under most …show more content…
Some animals are caught by beartraps that immobilizes them and crushes their limb until they are found by a ruthless human to skin them. After capture, the animals are thrown into steel cages and are left to harsh weather conditions. They have no cover or protection from whatever mother nature throws at them. Would you want your puppy drenched in water with no food awaiting his death? Of course not, This is such a horrible situation that should be better known to customers. In some cases, many animals are stuffed into a single cage just so the murderer could save a buck or two. Usually the animals can barely take a few steps back in forth! When they are skinned, at times it is while the animals are alive. This is so their skin isn’t damaged. If the animal resists, then some horrible people kick their head until he stops. After the murder, chemicals are used on the fur so it cannot rot. This chemical can contaminate water. Now you see how gruesome fur farms really

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