Activists go naked for fur
2006-01-21 21:17
Madrid - Baring all in chilly weather, animal rights activists staged a naked protest in north eastern Barcelona on Saturday, denouncing the torture and slaying of animals for fur coats.
The 70 men and women lay down, curled up on the pavement, outside Barcelona city hall.
They represented the number of minks it takes, on average, to make a fur coat.
The protest was staged by AnimaNaturalis and Peta international animal rights groups, and was watched by several dozen passers-by.
Leonora Esquivel, president of AnimaNaturalis said: "Millions of animals are captured, tortured and killed each year to make fur coats.
"In Spain alone, 26 million animals - among them rabbits, foxes, minks and lambs - were killed in 2003 to make coats.
"If people could see the animals in fur farms, they would never use a fur coat."