Fur Protest - Exclusive Furs, Middletown, CT!

Hello Fellow Animal Advocates, Please join us for a peaceful demonstration at Exclusive Furs in Middletown, CT on January 10th, 12-2, to educate folks about the horrors of the fur industry. WMARA is uniting with our fellow animal advocates in CT for this demo. The billions of animals tortured and killed each year for their fur desperately need our voice. We will have lunch afterwards at a vegan restaurant right around the corner! Zeller's Furs hasn't posted anything about their reopening yet, so we're holding off on protesting there. But we just found out about Exclusive Furs in Middletown so will focus on them now. ***Signs and literature will be available, but feel free to bring your own signs. ***Bundle up! ***If interested in carpooling, either reply via email or text/call me at (413) 374-1921. -------------------------- TAKE ACTION: MA RESIDENTS - A state bill banning the retail sale of new fur in MA is STILL in the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and will die if not favorably released within the next few weeks! S. 551/H. 990: An Act prohibiting the sale of newly farmed fur products. Learn more about the bill and the fur industry at https://www.mspca.org/animal_protection/furbill/. Please urge the Committee Chairs to favorably release it and your state legislators to support it! Find the Chairs at https://malegislature.gov/Committees/Detail/J21/194. Find your legislators at https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator. Thank you! Thanks to Fur-Free Massachusetts, there are now EIGHT MA towns that ban the retail sale of fur! Now let's ban it STATEWIDE!-------------------------------We must also complain to local businesses that carry real fur products! Post one-star reviews on their FB pages too, asking them to go fur-free. Fortunately, there are very few left in our area, but if you know of any, please let me know or post on this page!-------------------------------* Learn more about the fur industry - https://www.lcanimal.org/.../campa.../fur/fur-trade-facts... * 10 Fast Facts about Fur - https://www.bornfreeusa.org/.../ten_fast_facts_about_fur/... Each year, approximately 50 million animals are raised in horrific conditions on fur farms around the world, which often have NO regulations, and killed for their pelts. This number does not include over a billion rabbits that are also killed each year (70 million alone in France). We must inform the public about the true face of the cruel fur trade and about the millions of innocent fur-bearing animals, who live in torment on fur farms, going mad in filthy tiny wire cages and exposed to the elements or trapped in anguish until they die alone or are brutally killed and at times even skinned alive. The global support and worldwide growing awareness about the true face of the fur trade has brought about many important victories, including a recent landmark decision by New York Fashion Week organizers to ban fur! There have also been ground-breaking anti-fur bills. In 2019 CA became the first state to ban the sale of new fur products. And TWENTY ONE European counties have either banned or restricted fur farming! Poland was just added to the list, as they announced a ban on fur farming! Also, India has phased out fur skin imports and São Paulo, Brazil has banned fur imports and sales. In 2021, Estonia passed a ban on fur farming and Israel banned the sale of fur in the fashion industry. In retail, Massachusetts-based TJX, as well as numerous top brands and retailers—including Nordstrom, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Canada Goose, Chanel, Coach, Neiman Marcus, Burberry, Versace, Donna Karan, Gucci, Michael Kors, and Armani—have announced fur-free policies. But we still have a long way to go in this country, so we must continue urging people to not buy real fur and pushing for fur bans! As one of our signs says..."real women fake it!" Hope to see you there! For the Animals, Sheryl and Crysania