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Oh let the hand of friendship,
Be stretched across the sea,
To bring mankind together,
In one fraternity,
May love and understanding,
Prevail in one and all,
May brother come to sister,
To answer duty's call,
We're faithful Interactors,
Prepared to play our part,
To serve with love and needy,
With understanding heart,
When nations join with nations,
To build a brave new world,
Thus than the heart of children,
Shall sing the song of mirth,
Let not your feet be lagging,
But come and join our throng,
Let's fill this world together,
With friendship happy song!
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Say "NO" to FUR!
Written on: Sunday, March 15, 2009
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Say "NO" to FUR!
by Lee Hua Min

Can you imagine yourself being kept in a tiny cage with many others, with barely enough room for everyone to live in? Then day by day, those kept in the cage with you are being led away, one by one.

You can hear them cry, scream and moan.
You can see them being tortured and skinned alive.

Sooner or later, you know that it is going to be your turn.This is what the animals are facing in many places all over the world. They are all suffering this cruel fate just because some people enjoy wearing their fur.

Every year, millions of animals such as coyotes, lynxes, beavers, otters, bunnies, raccoons, foxes, minks, opossums and coyotes are trapped, drowned or beaten to death in the fur farm.
Inside a fur farm
“Fur farm” is a farm which has a purpose of turn animal’s fur into clothing. Animals that are farmed for their fur live in filthy conditions and are fed meat byproducts which is food that’s not considered fit for humans to eat. Other than that, animals on fur farms are stuck in cages where they’re exposed to all sorts of weather conditions, including the blazing hot sun, pounding rain, and snow. They are treated like garbage.

Workers at these fur farms frequently skin these animals while they are still alive and struggling desperately when they are flipped onto their backs or hung by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal's leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut. When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. Killing animals for their fur is murder and it should be illegal.


Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org.


And can you believe that it takes 40 animals just to make one fur coat??!! Wake up, people! Start preventing yourself and also others from wearing animal furs because there are so many great alternatives to fur, leather, and wool available, there’s no reason to wear the skin, fleece, or fur of any animal.
A cute mink ended up....

being skinned alive..

and the skin became a scarf on sale. Do you feel like buying it now?

Ohh.. and I forget to mention, animals are made into rugs too.

wolf rug & polar bear rug

And here are some facts about animal cruelty:
1. In many circuses, wild and exotic animals are trained through the use of intimidation and physical abuse. Former circus employees have reported seeing animals beaten, whipped, poked with sharp objects and even burned to force them to learn their routines!

2. Elephants who perform in circuses are often kept in chains for as long as 23 hours a day from the time they are babies.
3. More than 15 million warm-blooded animals are used in research every year.

4. Scientists estimate that 100 species go extinct every day! That's about one species every 15 minutes.

5. If you live in Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Rhode Island, Illinois, Virginia, Oregon, New York, New Jersey and Vermont you have the legal right to refuse to participate in dissection in class! In Louisiana, there is a State resolution and in Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland and New Mexico, there are Departments of Education resolutions in place that allow you to refuse to dissect, although it hasn’t yet become a law.

6. Dog fighting and cock-fighting are illegal in all 50 states.

7. It is estimated that on average it takes 1,000 dogs to maintain a mid-sized racetrack operation. New greyhounds are continually entering the system to replace greyhounds that grade-off due to injury, age or poor performance. There are currently over 30 tracks operating in the United States.

8. Tens of thousands of wild and domesticated horses from the United States are cruelly slaughtered every year to be used for horsemeat in Europe and Asia. Since the last horse slaughter plants in the U.S. were closed in 2007, thousands of horses have been shipped to Canada and Mexico for slaughter.

9. Many studies have found a link between cruelty to animals and other forms of interpersonal violence.

10. Neglect and abandonment are the most common forms of companion animal abuse in the United States.

11. A fur coat is pretty cool—for an animal to wear. Eighteen red foxes are killed to make one fox-fur coat, 55 minks to make a mink coat.