PETA Victory: J.Crew Ends All Fur Sales Following Intense Campaign

[Karmadillo]

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051202005460&newsLang=en

NORFOLK, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2005--Following an 11-week boycott campaign that involved coast-to-coast protests, petitions, letters, dead flower deliveries, and phone calls, retailer J.Crew has announced that it will end all fur sales. PETA launched the boycott with a protest at J.Crew's Madison Avenue store in New York on September 12 after the company began to sell fur despite its earlier assurances to PETA that it would not. The victory means that J.Crew--which began pulling fur items from its stores and catalog on the busiest shopping day of the year, the Friday after Thanksgiving--joins Forever 21, Gap Inc., Banana Republic, H&M, and others that have stopped selling fur. Lady Heather Mills McCartney, the wife of Sir Paul McCartney, led a PETA victory celebration outside a J.Crew store in Santa Monica on Thursday, December 1.

PETA was named "Guerilla Marketer of the Year" by Brandweek magazine last week in a cover article praising the group's creativity and effectiveness in its anti-fur campaigns.

PETA and J.Crew entered into negotiations last week after PETA's Youth Division, peta2, mobilized thousands of Street Team members to write to the company.

"By deciding to stop selling fur, J.Crew has shed its image as an uncaring company," says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. "In fact, most young people are so opposed to fur that J.Crew realized that what's good for animals is also good for the bottom line."

J.Crew got much of its fur from China, where not a single law protects animals on fur farms. An undercover investigation, which made international headlines earlier this week, found that millions of dogs and cats in China are bludgeoned, hanged, bled to death, and strangled with wire nooses for their fur, which is often deliberately mislabeled as fur from another species. PETA has also obtained undercover video footage that shows that fur farmers in China swing foxes and raccoon dogs by their hind legs and smash their heads into the ground--breaking the animals' necks but leaving them panting, blinking, and conscious as they are skinned alive.

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[BJW]

1. Thx for this post!!! Put dog-fur farmers out of business!

[unpossibles]

2. while I do not agree with PETA across the board

this is a great thing. Don't get me wrong - I am against fur, love animals, and don't eat meat, but I think they go too far sometimes, especially with their stance on important medical testing*

However, much like the environmental movement, I am glad there is a strong voice for animal rights, even if I personally find it's methodology occasionally extreme.



*keyword 'important'

[serryjw]

3. Good..I sent them a letter

telling them how disappointed I was in their decision to sell REAL fur!

[meganmonkey]

4. Excellent!

:thumbsup:

[northzax]

5. J.Crew sells fur?

really? I just looked through the Christmas catalog I got today, and the one I got yesterday. I found a total of two things with fur on them, both boots with fur trim. One is lamb, the other rabbit.

so they aren't really giving anything up, are they?

[Karmadillo]

9. This indicates they had about 20 items on their website.

I had to use the cached version as I couldn't find the original on the site. J Crew had just starting selling fur, so my guess is you would have found a larger selection in your catalog had they not decided to stop selling it.

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:rgrxJPLZSvMJ:www.californiaaggie.com/article/%3Fid%3D11089+j+crew+fur+sales+website&hl=en

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it talked with J. Crew in the past and requested it not include fur in its collections. J. Crew informed PETA it did not use fur nor had the intention to.

“Last year they said they don’t have any plans to use fur,” said Ian Blessing, spokesperson for PETA. “Currently J. Crew has about 20 items with fur for sale on its website.”

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[sproutster]

6. If we used PETA tactics for anti-war we would be locked up w/o a key.

Don't even get me started.

[Catchawave]

14. How did they break the law against J.Crew?

:shrug:

[Karmadillo]

22. No. We would just be a lot more effective. nt

nt

[ohio_liberal]

7. This is good

I don't think people who shop at J Crew and Gap would buy clothing with fur embellishments if they knew that fur might actually be what's left of a dog or a cat. Or maybe some of them still would, I don't know. I know people who don't give a shit about animals. It's horrifying to think of what some of these traders have done. I'm a meat eater, but an animal lover, and if people won't treat animals humanely then I'm all for forcing or shaming them into it. I wince sometimes at PETA tactics but this is good.

[MoonRiver]

8. KICK!!!!

HOORAY!!!!! :woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[WhiteTara]

10. Yeah! I think that animal fur

clothing is disgusting. I love the look of faux fur, it's fun. Dead animals around my neck is way to heavy karma for me.
Thanks for the post! Good news day!

[ohio_liberal]

13. Faux fur is ok with me

Faux fur is much easier to maintain, looks better anyway. Shedding fur coats are pretty disgusting. My dog attacked my Mom's coat that had fox fur trim. I've never seen anything so funny. Of course she didn't think it was humorous, but hey, shit happens.

[Mutley]

11. Good.

I saw some of that (or maybe a different) video of the dog and cat fur trade in China. Appalling, horrifying, disgusting, heart-wrenching -- none of these words come close to describing it. I could not watch the whole thing.

[Benhurst]

12. Good news. Recommended. NT

[xchrom]

15. kick

:woohoo:

[Critters2]

16. Good step

but the fight isn't over. I'm a pastor and have been trying to get an organization associated with my denomination to end its relationship with a fur shop. Lifelink Corporation, which runs foster care and adoption programs for kids, and several senior homes in the Chicago area, uses a fur show as its major Spring fundraiser. it invites York Furrier of Elmhurst to do this show, which, of course is a fundraiser for both Lifelink and Yor Furrier. I simply cannot get church officals nor Lifelink staff to see why this is a problem. I have told them to stop asking me for financial or other support, but compared to what a furrier and its clientele can do, I don't really matter.

So, there is much to do. But this is an important step!!

Thanks for posting!

[roguevalley]

17. fuck. this kind of crap kills me. GO PETA! I cannot imagine the

mentality of killing animals for fur and skinning them alive. THIS HAS TO END!

[nicknameless]

18. Huzzah!!!

Thanks, PETA!

[mirandapriestly]

19. I couldn't believe it when I got their catalog;

tons of fur, I hate the way that it has become "fashionable" to not care about animal cruelty again. I was really proud of PETA for doing that.

[AgadorSparticus]

20. FANTASTIC!! GO PETA!!!! With all that is available to us,

there is no justification for fur. I am so glad to hear this!!!!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[Kolesar]

21. That last sentence of the excerpt is just horrible

Hey conservatives! Want to see a profound moral issue? Here it is. Meanwhile the goddamned Cleveland Plain Dealer puts the "stolen christmas" story on the front page.