When the foxes are a year old, they are repeatedly hit over the head with a metal bar, which causes immense pain and injury but not death. Their winter coats are then stripped from them.
SOPHIE TANNO: Harrowing footage taken from inside a fur farm in Asia reveals how foxes and raccoon dogs are beaten with a metal bar and some of them are skinned alive in what has been described as ‘like a scene from hell’. Thousands of dead foxes were tossed into piles after they were clubbed to death and skinned for their fur, aerial footage captured by investigators from animal rights charity Humane Society International has revealed. The fur is then fashioned into expensive high street coats and exported to other countries.
Investigators for Humane Society International filmed at eleven randomly selected fur farms in one of the top countries in Asia exporting fur to the United Kingdom. The charity has not revealed the exact location of the fur farm for safety reasons. The foxes are kept outside in rows of cages covered in faeces and so small that most of the animals can move only a few inches.
The foxes’ water bowls were often left empty, according to HSI investigators. Some of the animals were exhibiting repetitive stereotypical behaviour typical of mental decline including swaying and repetitively pacing. When the foxes are a year old, they are repeatedly hit over the head with a metal bar to kill them, which according to Humane Society International causes immense pain and injury but not instant death. Their winter coats are then stripped from them.
Some of the foxes were cut and skinned while still alive and clearly moving, HSI investigators claimed. One of the team described the scene is a ‘mountain of dead bodies’. ‘I’ve never seen so much death in one place. It really shocked me and I had to steady myself to keep filming,’ they said. ‘There was a mountain of dead bodies, there must have been tens of thousands of animals discarded like rubbish, like their lives meant nothing… ‘Aside from the unbelievable cruelty of their deaths, these foxes and raccoon dogs will have endured utterly miserable lives.’ SOURCE…
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