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Fur Free Friday Is Almost Here Be a part of the action on November 23rd **View This Year's Fur Free Friday Events >> 
Fur Free Friday, the biggest global day of action against the fur industry is just around the corner, so if you haven't made plans to be at one of the many events taking place around the U.S., now is the time to commit. We hope this Fur Free Friday will be the biggest and best in its 20-year history. Recently released results of an undercover investigation of the rabbit fur industry by the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT) exposed the cruelty of using rabbits as fabric, indicating a need for intensified activism this November 23rd and throughout the year. For the investigation, CAFT agents infiltrated rabbit farms, slaughterhouses, dressing companies, fur manufacturers, and retailers, following the fur from the rabbits through processing and sale. Globally, about 50 million animals are killed each year for their fur -- not including rabbits, as the true number of rabbits used for fur is undocumented and unknown. CAFT's investigation gives consumers a harrowing glimpse inside this trade where millions of rabbits are confined to bare wire cages, kept as breeding machines, their throats slit and their furs turned into boots, hats, gloves and trim for jackets While CAFT investigated farms in Europe, the cheapest rabbit fur comes from China, where there are no animal welfare laws and rabbits spend their entire lives in wire cages, often exposed to freezing weather. To cut costs, fur farmers crowd as many rabbits as possible into each cage so they can barely move. When it comes time for slaughter, workers break the rabbits' necks and bash in their skulls before decapitating and skinning them. What You Can Do:
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