- Title: PETA rips fur off giant rabbit outside Paris store to protest use of angora
- Date: 2nd October 2019
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (OCTOBER 2, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PETA ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, ERIC DISIATO, RIPPING FUR FROM GIANT RABBIT MODEL OUTSIDE AMERICAN VINTAGE STORE IN PARIS TO PROTEST BRAND'S USE OF ANGORA WOOL PERSON TAKING PHOTO ON PHONE OF PROTEST AND SIGN READING (French): "ANGORA: TORTURE FOR RABBITS" MAN TAKING PHOTO OF ACTION AMERICAN VINTAGE STORE / ACTIVIST RIPPING FUR FROM GIANT RABBIT PILES OF FUR ON GROUND (SOUNDBITE) (French) PETA SPOKESPERSON, MARIE-MORGANE JEANNEAU, SAYING: "We realised that regardless of which animals are used in the textile industry, whether it be their skin or their fur, they are all subject to the same mistreatment, meaning they are raised in dirty, unhealthy cages that aren't cleaned or in overcrowded enclosed spaces. And as far as the shearing - it's called shearing for angora rabbits - there is live plucking during which their fur is pulled by hand. They're bullied and violated multiple times per year." DISIATO RIPPING FUR FROM MODEL RABBIT PROTEST SIGN READING (French): "ANGORA: TORTURE FOR RABBITS" MODEL RABBIT HEAD / AMERICAN VINTAGE SIGN
- Embargoed: 16th October 2019 13:22
- Keywords: Angora fur animal cruelty PETA protest rabbit
- Location: PARIS, FRANCE / HERZOGBIRBAUM, AUSTRIA
- City: PARIS, FRANCE / HERZOGBIRBAUM, AUSTRIA
- Country: France
- Topics: Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA001AZENWW7
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- Story Text:Activists from the animal rights organisation PETA on Wednesday (October 2) plucked fur from a giant model rabbit to protest the use of angora wool in front of a Paris store of clothing chain American Vintage.
The United States-based group criticised the French clothing chain for selling products containing angora such as its "Mitibird" jumper made of 50 percent angora wool.
During the action, a speaker blasted squeals of an angora rabbit as PETA activist Eric Disiato yanked by hand faux fur from a protester in a blood-covered rabbit costume.
Angora rabbits are "bullied and violated" in wool farms, PETA spokesperson Marie-Morgane Jeanneau said.
"As far as the shearing... there is live plucking during which their fur is pulled by hand," she said.
PETA has been pressuring clothing brands to stop using angora in recent years and has released in 2013 an undercover video of "extreme yet routine cruelty to angora rabbits" from inside a Chinese angora farm.
Since the video was released, numerous brands, such as fast-fashion giants Primark and H&M, sports brand Adidas and luxury clothing labels Gucci and Massimo Dutti, have banned the use of angora in their garments.
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