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PETA Supporters Will Ask Festivalgoers to Drop All Animal Skins

What:             Wearing little more than body-painted spots and stripes, a group of sexy PETA Australia supporters will converge on Town Hall ahead of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival carrying signs that proclaim, “Animal Prints – Not Animal Skins.” PETA hope to encourage would-be attendees to think twice about the true cost of the fur, wool, leather, angora and other skins used by some designers.

“Gentle rabbits, sheep, snakes, foxes and even dogs and cats are beaten and cruelly killed for their skins, a reality that would appal most consumers”, says PETA Australia Campaigns Director Jason Baker. “PETA Australia are calling on caring people to spare animals a lifetime of suffering by leaving skins on the animals this year.”

Video footage from an investigation of China’s angora industry shows that workers tear chunks of fur from rabbits’ skin as the animals scream in pain. Cows destined to be killed for leather endure painful mutilations, and PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear” – released an exposé that revealed a thriving dog-leather industry in China, in which workers club dogs and peel off their skin to make gloves and other products that are exported around the world. Sheep raised for their wool are cut, kicked, and punched by impatient shearers.

Where:           Outside Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh, NSW
When:             Monday, 13 April, 12 p.m.

Your coverage is invited. RSVP to Claire Fryer on 0466 609474 or at [email protected].

For more information, please visit PETA.org.au.

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