Cruelty- The Love Hate Relationship Of Animals An

Mr.Jones Period4 Cruelty: The Love-Hate Relationship of animals and fashion It takes the following number of animals to make one 40-inch coat: 16 coyote, 18 lynx, 60 mink, 45 opossum, 20 otter, 42 red fox, 40 raccoon, 50 sable, 8 seal, 50 muskrat and 15 beaver. ("Delaware Action For Animals - ANIMALS KILLED FOR SPORT/FASHION." Delaware Action For Animals - DA4A.org. Griffin Web Design. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.) It takes this many animals to make that one coat for that one person to wear and have in their wardrobe so they can feel elegant and fashion forward. This is a cruel, inhumane act to murder innoncent animals for our own narcististic ways. Each year, more than 40 million animals are killed for their fur: mink, fox, bobcat, beavers, raccoon, lynx, chinchilla, coyote, fisher, marten, muskrat, opossum, otter, skunk, weasel, the list goes on and on. Each piece of fur trim represents an animal that suffered and died; a full coat represents many animals. ("Delaware Action For Animals - ANIMALS KILLED FOR SPORT/FASHION." Delaware Action For Animals - DA4A.org. Griffin Web Design. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.) When people buy a fur coat or anything made out of the skin of some type of animal they tend to not think of how that animal was caught. There are seven different methods used when trying to catch animals in the wild. (Munro, By Ranald. "Animal Trapping." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.) These methods are foothold traps, conibear traps, deadfall traps, snares, trapping pit, cage traps, and glue traps. . (Munro, By Ranald. "Animal Trapping." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.) Out