no one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink

call me a nerd, but i love any good book or movie about any type of animal.

to name a few recent ones; water for elephants, rise of the planet of the apes, twiiiliightt.... (who's excited for the new movie!?)


after reading and watching some of these i've figured out many things. one; i never want to go to a circus. two; i'm nervous to go to a zoo again, for the fear of slipping in to a great depression. three; some humans disgust me. four; i kind of love animals.


did you know that elephants who perform in circuses are kept in chains for as long as 23 hours a day from the time they are babies? in many circuses, wild and exotic animals are trained through the use of intimidation and physical abuse. former circus employees have reported seeing animals beaten, whipped, poked with sharp objects and even burned to force them to learn and perform their routines. i know us humans look at animals as simply that, just animals. but each and everyone of them are a member of a family. can you imagine your brother or sister, wife, husband, or child being burned and or whipped; in order to be forced into doing something they do not want to do?

more than 25 million vertebrate animals are used in testing in the united states each year. but when invertebrate animals are thrown into the mix, the estimated number rises to as high as 100 million. 100 million animals being tested on daily for products we use everyday. and you may not understand what "testing on animals" really means. every year millions of animals are poisoned, blinded, and killed in crude chemical tests being forced to inhale chemicals that are bad to the body. animal testing isn't cheap either, and guess who's paying for it. you are. animal testing costs the american public over $136 billion annually. these tests usually fail anyways. between 25 and 50 billion animals are meaninglessly killed in laboratories each year. you want to know the bitter end of it all? drugs that even pass animal tests end up harming or killing humans about 61% of the time. did you read that correctly? 61% of the time, drugs passed through animal testing end up killing or harming humans. 

it takes 18 red foxes to make one fox-fur coat, 55 minks to make a mink coat.

most of the animals end up looking like this before they are made into what we supposedly need.

  

i don't understand how we could attack something so innocent to accompany whatever we want. how can we be so selfish?

take a stand. get to know the products you're using in your homes.

and while you shop, remember what you want to be wearing and who you don't want to be wearing.

set an example.

save the animals.