CAUTION: Toxic Dyes May Lead to... Exploding Pants?
Chemicals in the dyes used on your clothes are often highly toxic, carcinogenic, or even explosive. The chemical Anililine, is considered deadly poison (giving off carcinogenic amines) and dangerous to work with; also being highly flammable. In addition, other harmful chemicals used in the dying process include:
*Dioxin is a carcinogen (a possible hormone disrupter.)
*Toxic heavy metals such as chrome, copper, and zinc.
*Formaldehyde, a suspected carcinogen.
Dye chemicals have caused or fueled many dye factory fires through history, including a massive Rhode Island dye factory fire in 2003 in which vast quantities of dye chemicals spilled into the Blackstone River.
It Hurts to Be Beautiful
In the Draize test, caustic substances are placed in the eyes of conscious rabbits to evaluate damage to sensitive eye tissues. This is extremely painful for the rabbits, who often scream when the substances are applied and sometimes break their necks or backs trying to escape the restraints.
Info from: http://www.idausa.org/facts/costesting.html
Who Suffered for Your Clothes
"Confined in small, barren, wire cages where natural activities are denied them, animals who are raised for fur often fall prey to the from rapid spread of disease and exhibit obsessive-compulsive behavior such as self-mutilation, cannibalism, and incessant pacing-behavior induced by the combination of boredom, frustration, and deprivation."
-- http://allcreatures.org
Suffering for Fashion
Lethal Dosage (LD) tests are used to determine the amount of a substance that will kill a predetermined ratio of animals. For example, in the LD50 test, subjects are forced to ingest poisonous substances (through stomach tubes, vapor spray inhalers or injection) until half of them die. Common reactions to LD tests include convulsions, vomiting, paralysis and bleeding from the eyes, nose, mouth or rectum.
This picture (above) is of a dog, strapped down and awaiting the treatment.
Info from:
http://www.idausa.org/facts/costesting.html
The Horrible Truth
This cuddly-looking hat has a repulsive story behind it. The fox (left) was skinned, most likely alive. Many animals are broken and battered beforehand.
Bleak Future
This animal deserves better; is this any way to live?
The fox (above) is poked and prodded. A stick is forced into it's mouth. It is mangled, and insane. It has lost the ability to move, and the will to live.