Will You Help Us
Save Their Skin?

Dear neville,

If you’ve spent any time with rabbits, you know how smart and sensitive they are. They’re naturally social animals with endearing personalities who form lifelong bonds with one another.

But as you may have learned from our recent telephone event, on angora factory farms in China – the world’s largest producer and exporter of angora wool – rabbits are living in absolute terror, held prisoner in tiny, dirty cages until they’re grabbed by workers and the fur is painfully ripped out of their bodies.

While tremendous progress is being made against this cruel and violent industry, as long as rabbits are still being harmed and killed on angora farms, we must work even harder to help them.

Please help us work to push for even more progress for rabbits – and all animals – by making a donation online now.

A PETA Asia investigator visited 10 rabbit farms in China, and on farm after farm, he found “live plucking” – a misleading term for tearing out rabbits’ hair by the fistful while the terrified animals scream in pain. Workers on these farms don’t stop until every last strand of the rabbits’ hair – except for small patches on their head, feet and tails – has been torn out. Most rabbits endure this ordeal every two to three months.

On some farms that the investigator visited, the rabbits’ fur was cut with scissors or sheared with electric clippers, invariably wounding the thin skin of many as they struggled desperately to escape while tightly tethered or stretched across boards. For most of the rabbits on angora factory farms who manage to survive more than a year or two, their misery will end only when they’re hung upside down and their throats are slit so that their bodies can be sold for meat. Aside from a handful of companion-animal regulations in some of the major cities, there is still no animal-protection law in China – meaning that workers on these farms can do almost anything to animals with little personal risk.

Your generous gift today will support our work to help save animals and make groundbreaking triumphs over such cruelty possible.

The release of PETA Asia’s investigation has served as a wake-up call to retailers that stocked clothing and accessories made through the intense suffering of gentle rabbits and has inspired hundreds of thousands of caring people to take action to end the abuse and killing of these animals. Major retailers have banned angora and more companies, like David Jones, Myer and The Just Group, are banning or pulling angora products from their shelves almost every month.

The tremendous progress that we’re making for animals through victories such as these is undeniable, and together with your help today, I’m certain that we can do even more to stop horrors like those witnessed during PETA Asia’s investigation.

If you haven’t yet done so, please take a moment and visit our website to learn more about the agony behind angora wool and to promise never to wear angora. Then help spread awareness by sharing our campaign with your family and friends and asking them to pledge never to buy products made of angora wool. And if you see a shop that sells angora, speak to the manager and tell him or her about the suffering of rabbits.

Thank you for helping PETA come to the aid of rabbits and other animals.

Kind regards,

Ingrid E Newkirk
Founder

PS: Together, we’ve accomplished so much during the past year to help save rabbits. Your donation today will support our work to achieve even more victories for animals who need our help.