AR-News: (UK) Protests over jackets made from hamster fur

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By Paul Kelbie
02 March 2004 
Animal rights campaigners are protesting over the first sales in Britain of 
fur coats made from hamsters.
The coats, made from the skins of more than 100 hamsters, cost £1,750 each 
and are on sale at The House of Bruar near Blair Atholl, Perthshire.
The green jackets are made by the designer Lothar Repp and the skins, which 
form the lining, come from hamsters bred in Russia. Activists say the hamsters 
are placed in gas chambers in their hundreds and killed solely for the fur 
trade.
Doreen Graham, of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals, said: "Hamsters are not bred for food so nobody can argue that it is a 
by-product. This is very gory and it is unacceptable in this day and age that any 
animal should be killed purely for clothing. It really smacks of the Stone 
Age. I don't know how these animals died but from looking at other fur farms 
many are gassed or electrocuted."





full story:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=496994 
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