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New Anti-Fur Target - Leeds Kirkgate Market

West Yorkshire Animal Rights Group (WYARG) | 21.01.2010 01:50 | Animal Liberation

SMASH THE FUR TRADE!

It has come to our attention that a shop in council-owned Leeds Kirkgate Market, the Chinese Lowest Price Shop, is selling key rings and ‘nodding dog’ toys made entirely of fox and rabbit fur.

The market is owned by Leeds City Council, who have previously signed up to ethical policies regarding various aspects of animal abuse.

Undercover investigations into the Chinese fur trade have revealled routing suffering and cruelty, including animals being skinned alive and clubbed to death.

Please contact both the shop and Leeds City Council and ask that all fur is immediately removed from sale. Demonstrations will begin next week at the shop and council offices and events against their involvement in sickening animal abuse:

Chinese Lowest Price Shop
Leeds Kirkgate Market
34 George Street,
Leeds, LS2 7HY
Tel: 0113 2262651
Mob: 07727 051278 / 07827790886

Market Office,
28-34 George Street,
Leeds, LS2 7HY
Tel: 0113 214 5162
 markets@leeds.gov.uk

Leeds City Council,
Civic Hall
Calverley Street
Leeds, LS1 1UR
Tel: 0113 222 4444
 general.enquiries@leeds.gov.uk

ALL LEEDS COUNCILLORS:
 barry.anderson@leeds.gov.uk,  stuart.andrew@leeds.gov.uk,  suzi.armitage@leeds.gov.uk,  bernard.atha@leeds.gov.uk,  denise.atkinson@leeds.gov.uk,  john.bale@leeds.gov.uk,  andrew.barker@leeds.gov.uk,  sue.bentley@leeds.gov.uk,  christopher.beverley@leeds.gov.uk,  ann.blackburn@leeds.gov.uk,  Cllr.david.blackburn@leeds.gov.uk,  judith.blake@leeds.gov.uk ,  richard.brett@leeds.gov.uk,  colin.campbell@leeds.gov.uk,  andrew.carter@leeds.gov.uk,  les.carter@leeds.gov.uk,  ann.castle@leeds.gov.uk,  judith.m.chapman@leeds.gov.uk.  ben.l.chastney@leeds.gov.uk,  brian.cleasby@leeds.gov.uk,  david.congreve@leeds.gov.uk,  mick.coulson@leeds.gov.uk,  debra.coupar@leeds.gov.uk,  patrick.davey@leeds.gov.uk,  mark.dobson@leeds.gov.uk

 ryk.downes@leeds.gov.uk,  jane.dowson@leeds.gov.uk,  geoff.driver@leeds.gov.uk,  jack.dunn@leeds.gov.uk,  judith.elliott@leeds.gov.uk,  penny.ewens@leeds.gov.uk,  ruth.feldman@leeds.gov.uk,  ronald.feldman@leeds.gov.uk,  robert.finnigan@leeds.gov.uk,  clive.fox@leeds.gov.uk,  angela.gabriel@leeds.gov.uk,  stewart.golton@leeds.gov.uk,  pauleen.grahame@leeds.gov.uk,  terry.grayshon@leeds.gov.uk,  peter.gruen@leeds.gov.uk,  martin.hamilton@leeds.gov.uk
 ted.hanley@leeds.gov.uk,  grg@aagaardhanley.com,  roger.harington@leeds.gov.uk,  richard.harker@leeds.gov.uk,  janet.harper@leeds.gov.uk,  peter.harrand@leeds.gov.uk,  mark.harris@leeds.gov.uk,  david.hollingsworth@leeds.gov.uk

 arif.hussain@leeds.gov.uk,  kabeer.hussain@leeds.gov.uk,  graham.hyde@leeds.gov.uk,  william.hyde@leeds.gov.uk,  ohn.illingworth@leeds.gov.uk,  mohammed.iqbal@leeds.gov.uk,  josephine.jarosz@leeds.gov.uk,  valerie.kendall@leeds.gov.uk,  graham.kirkland@leeds.gov.uk,  alan.lamb@leeds.gov.uk,  brenda.lancaster@leeds.gov.uk,  graham.latty@leeds.gov.uk,  thomas.leadley@leeds.gov.uk,  james.lewis@leeds.gov.uk,  richard.lewis@leeds.gov.uk,  matthew.lobley@leeds.gov.uk,  alison.lowe@leeds.gov.uk,  joe.marjoram@leeds.gov.uk,  jamie.matthews@leeds.gov.uk,  andrea.mckenna@leeds.gov.uk,  james.mckenna@leeds.gov.uk,  james.monaghan@leeds.gov.uk,  veronica.morgan@leeds.gov.uk ,  lisa.mulherin@leeds.gov.uk

 thomas.murray@leeds.gov.uk,  elizabeth.nash@leeds.gov.uk,  adam.ogilvie@leeds.gov.uk,  keith.parker@leeds.gov.uk,  andy.parnham@leeds.gov.uk,  john.procter@leeds.gov.uk,  rachael.procter@leeds.gov.uk,  ralph.pryke@leeds.gov.uk,  cllr.mohammed.rafique@leeds.gov.uk,  karen.renshaw@leeds.gov.uk,  linda.rhodes-clayton@leeds.gov.uk,  frank.robinson@leeds.gov.uk,  david.schofield@leeds.gov.uk,  brian.selby@leeds.gov.uk,  alec.shelbrooke@leeds.gov.uk,  steve.cllr.smith@leeds.gov.uk,  neil.taggart@leeds.gov.uk,  alan.taylor@leeds.gov.uk,  christopher.townsley@leeds.gov.uk,  paul.wadsworth@leeds.gov.uk,  keith.wakefield@leeds.gov.uk,  gerald.wilkinson@leeds.gov.uk,  donald.wilson@leeds.gov.uk ,  lucinda.yeadon@leeds.gov.uk

West Yorkshire Animal Rights Group (WYARG)
- e-mail: westyorksanimalrights@hushmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.westyorkshireanimalrights.wordpress.com

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I thought Leeds was fur free?

21.01.2010 10:50

Perhaps after this 'victory' you should refrain from calling Leeds fur free? The amount of times for Leeds to be declared fur free only for someone to find another place selling it is getting monotonous now.

Cynic


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@Cynic

21.01.2010 11:51

Congratulations! You win the prize for dumbest comment of the day!

You must be new to the trolling game?

anon


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And then....

21.01.2010 12:40

Dominic Furs

Category: Fashion

The Willows Harwill Rise
Churwell
Morley
Leeds LS27 7QN

07831 561512

Another Cynic


n while you're at it

21.01.2010 15:01

complain about the stall selling nazi flags! WTF is going on in Leeds market?

Art


Hidden Fur

21.01.2010 16:08

Don't forget artist's materials shops selling kolinsky sable paintbrushes. There are bound to be several in Leeds. Also, those "Gentleman's Requisites" type shops selling badger hair shaving brushes. Greens on The Headrow is one but there may be others.

NP


A little confused (tell us the RULES)

21.01.2010 18:12

I can understand a campaign directed against the shops. But the council? That makes sense IF (but only if) the lease agreements with these stalls allows the council to specify on an item by item basis what may or may not be sold rather than general categories.

If these leases do not, if it would be ACTIONABLE for the council to order a leaseholding shop not to sell something, then that puts a completely different focus on the action. You aren't protected by "free speech" when you urge/pressure somebody else to do something that it would be illegal for them to do. How about not strictly speaking illegal but subject to a civil action? What are the rules? (that's a what ARE the rules question, not a what would you like the rules to be).

MDN


also selling...

24.01.2010 09:25

They also sell kittens and other 'pets' - some of these have ended up in local rescues, others will have been much less lucky.
Not much luck for the live lobsters sold in the fish section either.
The Common Place are hosting the following event - perhaps people should go along and ask if the market could be made slightly less shit.
Save Leeds Market meeting -
Thursday, 04 February 2010, 17:30 - 19:00, The Common Place.

kirkgate


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