Fur is Faux Real

Every year as winter rolls around, fur starts showing up everywhere. Fur pieces are classics that every consumer should experiment with at least once! Here's some things you should know about fur before you buy it:
1. Fur is the skin or hide of an animal with the fur still attached.
2. Most fur comes from ranch-raised animals rather than from feral animals.
3. Nearly 80% of animals used to make fur are raised on fur-factory farms. These farms provide horrible living conditions for the animals--they are fed bad meat and packed so closely together that they almost always have diseases.
4. These animals are murdered in gruesome ways in order to skin them and use their fur.
5. Some of these murder methods include suffocation, poison, electrocution, and neck-breaking.

So what can you do to help these innocent animals but still stay in style with the latest fur trends???

BUY FAUX FUR!

Here's some cool facts about faux fur:

• Faux fur looks extremely similar to real fur. The hand and feel of faux fur is a lot different from real fur, but as far as appearance there's not much of a difference.
• Faux fur can be made from nylon, acrylic or polyester. In order to conserve energy, some designers are now making faux fur from cotton.
• Faux fur is a lot cheaper than real fur.
• Neither animals nor the environment are harmed during the production of faux fur. 
• An increase in the popularity of faux fur will help reduce illegal production in fur factories.

Big name designers like Emilio Pucci, Marni, Fendi, Gucci and
Stella McCartney all use faux fur in their RTW collections.

What do you think about this issue? Do you think you will save some money this season and try faux fur over real fur?

If you want more information about how to help stop animal abuse visit www.peta.org