About a hundred activists of the organization of animal rights 'Equanimal' protested naked and with their bodies painted red in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid against the killing of fur seals for use.
The protesters remained this afternoon lying on the floor for half an hour, in the eyes of hundreds of onlookers at that time passing through the central Madrid square.
As explained Equanimal spokeswoman, Silvia Tovar, protest coincides with the maximum activity of the sealers in the months of early spring in countries like Canada, whose government has authorized this year's catch of about 300,000 copies.
In Europe, the EU ', plans to study "this year if the market is prohibited of seal fur in the European territory, but the timing depends on the laws of each country, he added.
With acts like the one made today this organization aims to raise public awareness that many of their habits are "cruel" to animals .
'We want to show the reality hidden the fur industry. Seals are killed in a cruel and minks raised in tiny cages until they go crazy and then gassed, electrocuted or skinned alive, "says the activist.
'is totally unnecessary use animal skins for clothing, fibers are more thermally isolated' Tovar says, who notes that for making a fur seal kill 8 adult, and a mink requires 60 of these animals.
More information:
- Equanimal
- Greenpeace
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