For immediate release:
Jul 19, 2021
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Moira Collie 202-483-7382
Dallas – By hearing from PETA, a local discount retailer of well-known brands. Tuesday morning banned fur in their nearly 500 stores across the country as well as removed all fur items. In gratitude, PETA sent the company a box of delicious rabbit-shaped vegan chocolates.
“Tuesday morning agreed with PETA that animal fur should not be on its shelves,” said PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman. “Compassionate retailers give ethical shoppers what they want – stylish home furnishings that don’t damage anyone’s hair.”
PETA notes that most of the animals used to make fur spend their entire lives in cramped cages, where they frantically pacing back and forth, gnawing on rods and maiming themselves in frustration before being electrocuted, gassed, or poisoned – and dirty fur factory farms have become COVID-19 hotspots. Animals trapped in nature can suffer for several days before trappers arrive to shoot, strangle, beat or trample them to death.
Tuesday morning joins hundreds of leading retailers and designers, including most recently Canada Goose and Neiman Marcus, in banning fur, and PETA is urging the public to demand that Saint Laurent and Brioni follow suit.
PETA, whose motto is in part that “the animals are not ours” – opposes arrogance, a worldview focused on human superiority. For more information please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…