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title: "[OT] Horrible movie about how fur coats are made"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/9/4/ot-horrible-movie-about-how-fur-coats-are-made.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/9/4/ot-horrible-movie-about-how-fur-coats-are-made.html"
published: "2005-09-04T20:53:00"
updated: "2005-09-04T20:53:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This horrible and very hard to watch movie was emailed as a link that's going around these days. It shows how furs are actually \"made\". It's amazing how much cruelty there is to animals here, being stripped alive. I…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# \[OT\] Horrible movie about how fur coats are made

By Roy Osherove September 4, 2005

**Historical article** · Originally published September 4, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

[This horrible and very hard to watch movie](http://www.strasbourgcurieux.com/fourrure) was emailed as a link that's going around these days. It shows how furs are actually "made". It's amazing how much cruelty there is to animals here, being stripped alive. I actually stopped watching 20 seconds in. I'm putting this here so that I'll always remember why people are the worst predator of all.

I'm no saint myself. I eat meat, burgers, all that. But truly - this movie is the reason I'll \*at least\* never buy a fur coat . ever.

**Update (15.9):**

Looks like Castro , a big clothing store chain in Israel has [announced it will stop marketing fur](http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3142530,00.html), due to customer ban and pressure from various groups. This was the result of a couple of months of angry emails on the Internet, some of them showing the horrible movie I mentioned above. (news link is in Hebrew)


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