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    Holiday Shoppers Beware: Six Major Retailers Selling Real Fur as Faux

    December 20, 2007

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    The Humane Society of the United States is warning shoppers to be on the lookout for real fur described as faux when shopping at department stores and online retailers this holiday season.
    Following up on last winter's HSUS investigation that uncovered a , HSUS discovered again this winter that many leading retailers—including Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus, Lord & Taylor, Dillard's, Saks Fifth Avenue and Yoox.com—have not addressed this consumer deception.
    Certain jackets sold by these companies with the brand names Burberry, Andrew Marc, Marc New York, Preston & York, Aqua, Ramosport and Adam+Eve were found to be falsely advertised or mislabeled as faux fur or "ecological" fur* when in fact they are trimmed with real animal fur.
    "Shoppers should be outraged that companies continue to sell as 'faux' what is actually real fur, perhaps from animals skinned alive in China," said Kristin Leppert, director of The HSUS's fur-free campaign. "Congress and the Federal Trade Commission need to take swift action to protect consumers and animals."


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    Default Re: Your faux fur jacket may not be fake after all! It might even be dog fur!!

    wtf? Why would they do that? Wouldn't that cost more money that using fake fur?

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    Default Re: Your faux fur jacket may not be fake after all! It might even be dog fur!!

    Burlington Coat factory was caught doing this a few years ago. Dont buy fake fur if the coat is made in China...

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    Default Re: Your faux fur jacket may not be fake after all! It might even be dog fur!!

    WTF???? You cant even trust faux shit???

    This world is a fuckin mess. Im sorry. I am pmsing and this just rubs me the wrong way. I hate the world today.


    eta:

    And to the scumbags skinning ANY animal alive... they should be put in prison for the rest of their lives. UGH!

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    Ugh. I read about this ages ago. Now I don't trust any furs at all, which is too bad because furry collars are cute.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kitty260 View Post
    Ugh. I read about this ages ago. Now I don't trust any furs at all, which is too bad because furry collars are cute.
    I did too. I hate wearing fur. If you blow lightly into the fur it will seperate if it real, it will not sepertate if it's fake.

    HOWEVER...they are mixing real and fakes as well...fuckers. Makes the product look pretty...fuckers

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    Quote Originally Posted by cameron_keys View Post
    Burlington Coat factory was caught doing this a few years ago. Dont buy fake fur if the coat is made in China...
    yes, I remember this. The coats were labeled as raccoon when in fact they were raccoon dog. (some type of dog in china.)


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    Quote Originally Posted by cameron_keys View Post
    Burlington Coat factory was caught doing this a few years ago. Dont buy fake fur if the coat is made in China...
    Or any other country that eats dog meat

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lexi View Post
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    And to the scumbags skinning ANY animal alive... they should be put in prison for the rest of their lives. UGH!
    WORD.

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    Default Re: Your faux fur jacket may not be fake after all! It might even be dog fur!!

    I've known about this for some time now and will not even buy anything with a tiny bit of fur on it, or that is labeled as faux fur. I got a suede faux fur bebe jacket for christmas and had to get rid of it.

    This site (http://www.all-creatures.org/aip/nl-24aug2003-con.html -warning:extremely graphic image and story)
    shows how they mislead people into thinking cat and dog fur is something else.. like for example

    Dog Fur
    Gae-wolf
    Asian wolf
    Asiatic raccoon
    China wolf
    Corsac fox
    Goupee
    Gubi
    Pommern wolf
    Loup d'Asie
    Asian jackal
    Dogue de Chine
    Sobaki

    Dog Leather
    Mountain Goat skin
    Sakon Makhon lamb
    Kou pi
    Dog skin plasters (sold in Chinatowns as a cure for rheumatism)

    Cat Fur
    Housecat
    Wild cat
    Katzenfelle
    Goyangi
    Mountain cat
    Maopi
    Moupi
    Maopee

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    Default Re: Your faux fur jacket may not be fake after all! It might even be dog fur!!

    My coat has a fake fur hood lining. It's too ugly to be real. I know the feeling of faux too.

    But I hate fur. It just feels like I'm handling a corpse when I hold a fur jacket. I'm trying to extend my issues with fur to leather, because skin is skin is skin, but some things are harder to find fake.

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    How horrible.

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    OH HELL NO! That sucks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by StrawberrySwitchblade View Post
    My coat has a fake fur hood lining. It's too ugly to be real. I know the feeling of faux too.

    But I hate fur. It just feels like I'm handling a corpse when I hold a fur jacket. I'm trying to extend my issues with fur to leather, because skin is skin is skin, but some things are harder to find fake.
    There are some good brands with fake leather. Steve Madden and Sketchers make a lot of cool shoes with 100% man-made materials.

    Good purses are a different story. I like Matt & nat purses/wallets, and Stella McCartney does some good designer stuff if you like more high end.

    This is a cool store too.

    http://www.alternativeoutfitters.com/

    Quote Originally Posted by LoveSexMoney View Post
    yes, I remember this. The coats were labeled as raccoon when in fact they were raccoon dog. (some type of dog in china.)
    and btw, it's not all raccoon dog. Some of it is real domestic dog.

    See for yourself.
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    Default Re: Your faux fur jacket may not be fake after all! It might even be dog fur!!

    Honestly, I dont think anyone who refuses to wear fur should wear fake fur either. You're perpetuating the style, even if your particular article isn't real.

    Feature costumes for sale!

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    Quote Originally Posted by scarlett_vancouver View Post
    Honestly, I dont think anyone who refuses to wear fur should wear fake fur either. You're perpetuating the style, even if your particular article isn't real.
    what about fake leather and suede? I know of some hardcore vegans that won't wear it, but I don't see what the big deal is.

    I make the choices I make not for other people, but for me. And if I know it's fake, then that's all that matters.

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    Jeez, I could have used a warning before the skinned dog pic. Yikes.

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    Default Re: Your faux fur jacket may not be fake after all! It might even be dog fur!!

    Most people don't want look at stuff like that, but it is a thread about dog fur. I'm not sure what people expected, but I edited to be a link and used a different picture.

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    Default Re: Your faux fur jacket may not be fake after all! It might even be dog fur!!

    i am anti fur. and i saw this amazing cute jacket in a store on the Kings Road and was kind of umming and ahhing over it when the sales person comes up to me and says oh its real rabbit!! As if that would sway me. So i nearly dropped it with shock and then see the price tag, it was double figures, way too cheap. Which means if its naything real its prob cat or dog. Sick. I felt disgusted. Faux fur can be excellent, there is no need for this.

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    Damn. That's really horrible. I guess I'll just stick to NorthFace

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    Default Re: Your faux fur jacket may not be fake after all! It might even be dog fur!!

    I kinda know the exact feel of fake fur and vinyl pleather, but still don't have many clothes with them. Although I'm not exactly an animal activist, I do have a Peta shopping guide and buy from brands that do not use or test on animals.

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    Just looking at that site made me sick. Oh the poor animals.

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