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Wampum - Fur Scum!

HAFC | 09.02.2006 21:56 | Animal Liberation | World

Wampum is a small shop in Leeds, advertising itself as a "Native-American trading post" They are currently stocking products containing fox, rabbit and wolf fur.

The owner claims it doesn't matter because it comes from the
native Americans, who use every part of the animal. It is very likely that she is just lying, and it comes after being mass produced in a warehouse.

If what she says is the truth, the animal would have been caught in a barbaric leg-hold trap in the wild, tried to gnaw off it's own limbs in desperation to escape, then killed by being stamped on and it's lungs and ribs crushed, or beaten to death.

But, if farmed the fox, rabbit or wolf would have been imprisoned in a tiny, filthy cage, going insane with boredom in darkness before being gassed, electrocuted or skinned alive.

Please contact Wampum and tell them to stop selling fur:

Wampum,
16 New Briggate,
Leeds, LS1 6NU
Tel: 0113 244 5083
Email:  wampum@btconnect.com
The owner is Margaret Rose Carroll

=========SAMPLE LETTER==========
Dear Sir / Madam, Wampum,
I am disgusted that your store continues its sale of real furs. No-matter where your product comes from, there is still cruelty involved, whether it is mass produced or made by American-Indians.
If it is produced from wild-caught animals, they would have been caught in a barbaric leg-hold trap, tried to gnaw off it's own limbs in desperation to escape, then killed by being stamped on and it's lungs and ribs crushed, or beaten to death. The traps do not always just capture the intended victim, pets and other wildlife can become caught, and suffer, then thrown away because they are not needed.

When farmed farmed, the fox, rabbit or wolf would have been imprisoned in a tiny, filthy cage, going insane with boredom in darkness before being gassed, electrocuted or skinned alive.

I will be boycotting your store, and calling upon others to do so, until you cease the sale of all products containing real fur,
Yours Sincerely,


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Harrogate Anti-Fur Campaign (HAFC)
E-mail:  fur@covancecampaign.com
Mailing List:  http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/fur-free-yorkshire
***CAMPAIGNING FOR A FUR-FREE YORKSHIRE!***

HAFC

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Wampum

10.02.2006 01:00

I've always hated that fucking shop. Selling shite to middle-class idiots that think that a fucking dream-catcher is going to save their arse when they're being lined up for the firing squad!

Grrrr


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