hamster coat

[j_b]

link to story

 

COAT MADE OF 100 HAMSTERS Mar 1 2004

 

 

Rodents slaughtered for high-fashion fur

 

By Robert Stansfield

 

 

 

A HUNDRED hamsters were gassed to death to make this sick coat.

 

And wealthy customers are paying £1750 a time for the coats, which are lined with the animals' fur, at a posh Scots store.

 

[...]

 

The hamsters are crammed into chambers and gassed to death to prevent bloodstains from spoiling their thin fur.

 

Last night, animal rights campaigners begged shoppers to boycott the cruel trade.

 

SSPCA spokeswoman Doreen Graham said: 'Animal lovers should be appalled that hamsters are being killed to make fur coats.

 

'They are not bred for food so you can't argue the fur is a by-product. It is simply cruel that hamsters are being needlessly killed.'

 

Advocates for Animals spokeswoman Yvonne Taylor added: 'These coats are completely sick.

 

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[cracked]

Cool!

 

Come on, people should throw fits over the feeding of mice to snakes. They're friggin' SNAFFLEHOUNDS for crying out loud!

[Thinker]

nice counterpoint:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1160611,00.html

[Off_White]

I thought Hamsters were the pets you got for your kids when you wanted them to learn about death? They never seem to last too long.

[AlpineK]

I wonder if Richard Gere has a hamster coat?

[Ducknut]

I wonder when Patagonia will find a renewable and humane way to add a hampster lined softshell to its fashionable mountaineering line of clothing?

[mothboy88]

I wonder if Richard Gere has a hamster coat?

 

You know why hamsters can't drive?

 

They can't get out of Gere.

[badvoodoo]

I wonder if Richard Gere has a hamster coat?

 

He probably has a hamster thong.