[4animals] Shoppers fur issue/demo

[vaalea]

I really liked the last protest.... can you duplicate it Victoria?... Whatever the bunny girls were wearing was nice, cause it was dressy than I expected... less "costumey"... and I think the Peta bunny signs are great.... but I also like the raccoon ones we've had in the past.
Also... do you have pictures from the last protest? Did anything make the news?

We could always have signs warning people that dog and cat fur from china are mislabeled in stores.. in general.
like "Are you wearing CAT FUR? Please be aware China blah blah..."

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: K 
  To: For animal welfare/rights information and events. 
  Cc: ottawa.animal.advocates at rogers.com 
  Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:49 AM
  Subject: Re: [4animals] Shoppers fur issue/demo


  i would be more inclined to target, at the very least, an offender that offered fur trimmed garments as one of its mainstays.   shoppers sells primarily toiletries, and i don't believe anyone seeking clothing items and accessories would consider shoppers as a primary source.    it is unfortunate about the scarves, but i agree with the tactics of another list user, who spoke to the pharmacist and then sent a letter to shoppers.  she advises the pharmacist was receptive.  so that is a route to go with that store.   i also wrote shoppers and received a reply, and provided its email in an earlier message.

  furthermore, i would not advocate the use of signs that allege that shoppers use cat and dog fur.  the group risks ruining any credibility it may have if signs are used making such allegations, and then it turns out, that in fact, it is rabbit fur.





  v_good at rogers.com wrote: 
      DOES ANYONE KNOW OR CAN ANYONE FIND OUT IF THE SHOPPERS DRUG MART AT THE RIDEAU CENTRE OR AT THE SHOPPERS BY L'ESPLANADE LAURIER ON BANK IS SELLING THESE FUR SCARVES/GLOVES and what not??

      As it happens there was supposed to be an event on Feb 10th or 11th with Ottawa representing National Anti-Fur Day. Due to illness I was not able to co-ordinate this event and the person who was supposed to has bailed out on the National co-ordinator in T.O. I am now desperately trying to find a replacement co-ordinator for a simple event but for this forum I am also wondering
      >>>>>>
      If anyone could come out for a noon demo on either the fri or the Sat (please let me know which or either if you can) This is the perfect opportunity to expose Shoppers Drug Mart as possibly entice the media with a headline like " Drugstore sells cat/dog fur?"
      Apparently there is some info related to the Asian fur trade on the HSUS site in their wildlife section and Peta has lots of stuff too of course. Anyways, I am not really looking for opinions here with the short notice
      but rather to see if we could tentatively get at least a few people out. The location would be outside Shoppers Drug Mart on Rideau Street of Shoppers near L'Esplanade Laurier. Even if neither of these locations has the fur or it gets removed the other locations will I'm sure still have it and then there's still the whole issue of 'bunny' fur in general in the malls- Jacob etc.
      Thanks alot,
      Victoria 



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