Cats are facing a living nightmare. Workers bash them on the head or hang them, slit their throats, and strip off their fur. We must stop this violence—and we need your help right now, while your gift will be tripled.
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A cat is peacefully sunning herself on a doorstep when a stranger grabs her by the scruff of the neck.
She struggles, trying to escape—but the stranger’s grip is just too tight. She’s shoved into a cramped wire cage on the back of a truck, packed in so tightly with other abducted cats that she can hardly move.
The truck eventually stops at a crowded, noisy market where the cages are dropped to the ground.
She’s soon yanked out. Her horrifying ordeal ends with a blow to the head and a knife to the throat before she’s strung up and skinned.
Cats like this one are being sold and killed in grisly, blood-soaked places that are such a breeding ground for pathogens that the World Health Organization has now called for most live-animal markets to be shut down.
Eyewitnesses at such markets have documented as many as 20 cats packed into a single cage—and 800 or more animals crammed onto a single truck.
Neither the tremendous suffering inherent in the fur and leather industries nor the booming global demand for sustainable alternatives to animals’ skin has been enough to prevent a few stubborn companies from trying to profit from animal abuse, which is why we must keep campaigning until no animals are harmed or killed for fashion.
It’s not uncommon for workers at markets or slaughterhouses to kill animals by hanging, strangling, or bludgeoning them to death. Some of the animals will even show signs of life as their skin or fur is torn off.
The only way to prevent animals from suffering in the skins trade is to persuade consumers and designers to stop buying fur and other animal-derived materials—and for 40 years, PETA has been doing just that.
No organization has done more than we have to encourage retailers and big names in fashion to ditch fur and other cruelly produced materials, to advocate for laws to ban fur farms and fur sales, and to inspire more consumers to choose clothing that no cat, dog, sheep, or other animal suffered for.
We know what’s happening. We know where it’s happening. We know how to stop it. We just need your support.
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