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PETA has been pushing execs at LVMH—which owns Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Dior, and other fashion brands—to ban fur and exotic skins for a long time. Although PETA investigations have repeatedly exposed abuse in these industries, LVMH still won’t ditch the harmful materials. 🙄
Peeling off an animal’s skin is all about greed, and LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault is one of the richest people in the world. His wealth is built on the exploitation and killing of countless animals. 😡
No matter what commitments or standards LVMH brands or other companies yap about, there’s no such thing as “ethical” or “humane” fur or exotic skins.
What’s Wrong With Fur?
Minks are semiaquatic animals who make their homes in cozy dens they line with grass and leaves. But on fur factory farms, minks are crammed into small wire cages that cut into their feet and are denied access to grass for bedding or water to swim in. In addition to revealing seriously injured minks, an investigation into Italian fur farms uncovered dead ones left to rot inside cages. Survivors were gassed to death—which is never humane and may cause minks, who can hold their breath for long periods, extreme suffering. 😢
Foxes are devoted parents, and mother foxes go to great lengths to protect their babies. When a fox cub in the U.K. was caught in a snare for two weeks before being found by rescuers, he survived only because his brave mother took food to him daily. 🤯 However, foxes on fur farms are denied the opportunity to care for their young. On a fur farm in Norway, investigators found six fox cubs confined to a cage with their dead and rotting mother. A PETA U.S. investigation into a fur farm in Wisconsin revealed that foxes were confined to filthy, wire-floored cages before they were killed in a makeshift gas chamber. 😰
What’s Wrong With Exotic Skins?
PETA investigators went inside the world’s largest ostrich-slaughter companies, which supply Louis Vuitton. They filmed workers hitting young birds in the face and laughing as one stumbled over a collapsed flockmate. One worker also laughed as he described how the birds trusted the workers and walked willingly into the slaughter facility with them. 😠 In the slaughterhouse, ostriches were forced into stun boxes before their throats were slit.
A PETA vid of crocodile farms in Vietnam showed that workers cut into the necks of crocodiles and rammed metal rods down their spines. One farm that has supplied skins to LVMH held tens of thousands of crocodiles in small, concrete enclosures—some shorter than the length of their bodies. The investigator was told that the animals were kept there for over a year. 😨
In the exotic-skins trade, lizards are cut open while still alive—and snakes are decapitated, nailed to trees, or killed in other cruel ways. 😱
What You Can Do
Animals’ skin and fur belong to them. Period. LVMH has no excuse for propping up the fur and exotic-skins trades just ’cause a few remaining designers haven’t broken their bad habits.
A few moments of your time could make a massive difference for animals. Please use the form below to urge LVMH to ban fur and exotic skins from Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Dior, and all its other brands today!