Your faux fur could be Lassie's coat ("It's an industrywide deception")

[Doondoo]

That fur trim on your jacket that you think is fake? Tell it to Fido. An animal advocacy group says its investigation has turned up coats — some with designer labels, some at higher-end retailers — with fur from man's best friend. Some retailers were set scrambling to pull the coats from shelves, take them off Web sites and even offer refunds to consumers.

The Humane Society of the United States said it purchased coats from reputable outlets, such as upscale Nordstrom, with designer labels — Tommy Hilfiger, for example — and found them trimmed with fur from domesticated dogs, even though the fur was advertised as fake.

"It's an industrywide deception," said Kristin Leppert, the head of the Humane Society's anti-fur campaign.

The investigation began after the society got a tip from someone who bought a coat with trim labeled as faux fur that felt real. Leppert and her team began buying coats from popular retailers and then had the coats tested by mass spectrometry, which measures the mass and sequence of proteins. Of the 25 coats tested, 24 were mislabeled or misadvertised, the society said.

Three coats contained fur from domesticated dogs. The others had fur from raccoon dogs — a canine species native to Asia — or, in one case, wolves. Most of the fur came from China.



http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4578006.html

[jeff30997]

1. That's horrible!!!

:puke:

[undergroundpanther]

2. Profits trump ethics every time

Especially in China. Those dogs are not killed humanely either.They are skinned alive and left in a pile of other skinned dogs still alive until they die. Industry is EVIL to animals PERIOD.. Where does all that roadkill go? To a rending plant. A place like valley proteins where they all go in a hopper get ground up and cooked.Until these dead animals are turned into cattle, cat dog feed, it is rendered until the dead looks sorta like brown sugar. This is what makes up"meat by products"and protein sources" on pet food labels.
http://siriusdog.com/articles/pet-food-rendering-cvma-smith.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/aug99/process2.htm

Our world has been nearly consumed of topsoil that is fertile.
Our world is cannabalizing itself.

There is not much nutrients left in this planet to sustain life so now we might all become cannibals. Closing the FDA offices only will confirm what I think will be industries next corner cut will be,because if you can't test the products you can never know how widespread it is tainted, Hey in China there's alot of dog meat going to waste that could be money in some assholes pocket.McDonald's and Taco bell might be interested a nice tasty meat to put on their new salads.Tastes like chicken.


Also consider this..Mad cow is being woefully under tested, every cow that has no prions in it is being cut with a saw that could have prions from a previous cow.Cross contamination,There is not enough tests being done on the cows pigs etc. in America because if you don't test you never know how bad the problem really is.Standard industrial evil . Denial for profits,It's Not a river in Egypt it's a caustic pink pond in America...

We are all gonna die there is no such thing as a 'preventable death'..and I for one am glad I won't live forever.