Los Angeles has an opportunity to go fur free — and you can help make it happen. CLICK HERE to sign the petition urging LA City Council to ban fur sales and manufacturing in the city.
Thanks to the efforts of animal rights organizations The Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation and Animal Hope in Legislation, the LA City Council has introduced a measure to ban the sale and manufacture of fur products within the city.
Councilmebers Bob Blumenfield and Paul Koretz introduced the motion last week, which was seconded by Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell. The proposal is now under discussion with the Personnel and Animal Welfare Committees.
Blumenfield said he was motivated to introduce the motion after watching footage released by the Foundation, which showed the horrific conditions animals are forced to live in inside fur farms.
“It is time to move past the arcane practice of killing animals for goods,” Blumenfield said. “Los Angeles must be a leader in this effort, stop the unnecessary killing of animals and finally eliminate this vile market.”
If the motion is successful, LA City would introduce a ban on the sale of any clothing or accessories that feature fur, with an exception for secondhand fur products. This ban would take effect in January 2020.
“Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States, and this fur ban will go on to affect the entire nation,” the Foundation said on their Facebook page. “As more and more cities go Fur Free, designers will be pushed to make the compassionate choice.”
Several other cities in California have already instigated similar bans, including West Hollywood, Berkley, and San Francisco.
“This legislative act is not just about taking a stand,” Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation founder Marc Ching. “It is about compassion, about morality – and about what it means to be human.”
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Stop promoting animal cruelty.
Fur is extremely cruel. You might as well drink blood
Fur is cruel. You might as well drink blood !!
Please read the entire article. It’s only a page long.
Let’s start with a few things we have in common. (alphabetical order)
Buddhist
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one that brings peace.
Christian
My peace I give unto you.
Hebrew
Shalom (peace)
Hindu
Let there be peace on earth
Muslim
O” You who believe! Enter absolutely into Peace.
Mitochondrial Eve. Scientists have said that through mitochondrial DNA all modern women can be traced back to one woman who lived around 200,000 years ago.
Y-Chromosomal Adam. Scientist have said that the Y-chromosomes of all modern men are directly derived from one male who lived around 200,000 years ago.
Besides being distantly related to each other (earthlings) we are no longer a world containing small isolated villages and wandering nomadic tribes. Through technologies like social media, internet, world news, modern travel capabilities and our ever increasing populations, like it or not we have become a world community! The next level of human development might be accepting each other and doing it soon! And I’m going to tell you why!
Now using your imagination, picture this. You’re in a desert where all you see is sand. Not a bush, not blade of grass, no water, nothing alive! But in the middle of this massive dead zone heated by a hot sun you come upon an oasis! It has water, food and other life. Just a beautiful place! A place where you and your family, your tribe can live, prosper and multiply. And you would probably want to protect such a place and protect it with your life? I just described earth! Yes earth, our oasis in space! Take a good look at the other planets around us in this universe and you’ll see that earth is without doubt a gift, a beautiful, wonderful gift!
Here it is! The sixth mass extinction in earths history is well under way! Scientists have found that billions of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians have been lost all over the planet. Leading them to say a sixth mass extinction has already progressed further than was thought. Prof. Gerardo Ceballos, at the Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico as an example said “The situation has become so bad it would not be ethical not to use strong language!” Our oceans, our forest! Even flying insects in general! Recent findings in Europe say flying insect populations there are down 80%! The honey bee as an example is responsible for about a third of our food supply and about 90% of wild plants depend on them and their numbers are falling! Some estimates are as high as 44%!
Scientist conclude: “The resulting biological annihilation will have serious ecological, economic and social consequences. We will eventually pay a very high price for the decimation of the only assemblage of life that we know of in the universe!” National Academy of Sciences calls the massive loss of wildlife a “biological annihilation” that represents a “frightening assault on the foundations of human civilization”. Almost all living things on earth have an immune system. What if earth does? It’s probably a safe bet we’ll be the ones to trigger it if it does!
Maybe you don’t care? It’s somebody else’s problem? Do this, look into the eyes of your children or grandchildren and tell them you don’t care about the future of the world! Because they’re going to be the ones in the future dealing head-on with the decisions we make today and there’s going to be no place to run! What we do in the next two decades is crucial!
Life is short and too precious to waste. In a world that’s so full of trouble, there’s so much we can do! Don’t waste time, make a difference, do something that is good! Maybe save a life!
And remember. “Positive expectations, produce miracles.”
Leave the fur on the animal, as it was intended.
Fur is only meant to be worn by the animal that grows it
We don’t need to eat , drink, or wear animal “ products”
Fur should stay on the animals as God intended it to be NOT wore by people!
#NoMoreAnimalAbuse
Please: Stronger animal cruelty laws
Justicia!
Não compactuo com a crueldade animal!
I read all said and agree with something’s but animal abuse is abuse no matter what whether for slaughter or fur meat to eat its still abuse and humans have done this over 1000 years and it wont stop because human race thinks there superior to all and abuse of animals leads to abuse of children women and yes men as well the world today people dont care about animals or even human lives we all have instincts animals use fir survival as humans do but we all are getting greedy with life so wake up all of you and welcome to the world in which we now live in
Responding to RLH
I do agree that humans are VERY selfish and think their superior to other people and animals. Yes, abuse has been going on, longer than any of us can remember. That in my opinion, doesn’t mean we just close our eyes and let abuse keep happening. No we have to fight, as much as we can, making as many abusers possible pay for the pain, they inflict on innocent animals. Even more important, if we can save 15 animals from abuse a year, because of preventative measures, being taken against animal abuse. That’s 15 animals that would have been, tortured or murdered, that where saved. Any amount of animals saved, is a positive step and very much worth my time. I’ll never stop fighting, it’s the least I can do for all the animals, that have suffered and the animals still to suffer. I think we’ve come a long way, cutouts to everyone who have fought for the rights of animals. Please, let’s all of us never give up, all our beautiful, beloved, animals need our help.
Reply to Angela yes we do need to help animals I have done to help animals from China Korea and other countries and I’ll keep fighting for them every day but as we fight more abused animals suffer at human hands I wish it could just end and animals of all species live in freedom as dogs and cats find loving homes I’ve been around to long and see more abuse towards animals even children are abusing and it hurts to see this happen but yet I’ll keep fighting for them but all who want to see this end need to stand up as well not just talk on a site get involved make yourself heard maybe someone will listen for once and this horrible act will finally be to a end