Donegal; Fur Farm Capital of Ireland!!

national | animal rights | press release Wednesday March 26, 2008 09:29 by ALiberation - ALiberation aliberationnow at gmail dot com www.vegaplanet.org 086 3203643

Donegal can be the county to stop fur farms throughout Ireland.

Fur Free campaigners in Donegal Town will demand an end to Irish fur farms this Saturday. With a Hugh visual display of caged animals, Large Banners, Posters, and Leaflets, activists will highlight the horrible suffering found on fur farms.

The fur industry is one of the cruelest industries in the world. Unfortunately, Minister Mary Coughlan has allowed County Donegal to become known as the fur farm capital of Ireland. Donegal has this reputation for three reasons;
1) County Donegal has more fur farms than any other county in Ireland;
2) The Irish Fur Breeders Association is in County Donegal;
3) The constituency of the Agriculture minister, Mary Coughlan is in Donegal. It is Minister Coughlan who gives the licences to the fur farmers each year. The Minister of Agriculture has the most say on whether or not fur farming will continue in Ireland

Fox Being Anally Electrocuted

Fur Free campaigners in Donegal Town will demand an end to Irish fur farms this Saturday. With a Hugh visual display of caged animals, Large Banners, Posters, and Leaflets, activists will highlight the horrible suffering found on fur farms.

The fur industry is one of the cruelest industries in the world. Unfortunately, Minister Mary Coughlan has allowed County Donegal to become known as the fur farm capital of Ireland. Donegal has this reputation for three reasons;
1) County Donegal has more fur farms than any other county in Ireland;
2) The Irish Fur Breeders Association is in County Donegal;
3) The constituency of the Agriculture minister, Mary Coughlan is in Donegal. It is Minister Coughlan who gives the licences to the fur farmers each year. The Minister of Agriculture has the most say on whether or not fur farming will continue in Ireland

Unbelievably, over 170,000 foxes and minks are locked up and killed each year in the Republic of Ireland. The animals are packed into small wire mesh cages for their entire lives, often there will be more than one animal to a cage. They will never be allowed outside for exercise. This unnatural caged life results in the animals developing “Stereotypical Behaviour”, which is a polite way of saying insanity.

When the foxes and minks are finally taken out of the barren cages to be killed, the methods chosen to kill the animals are selected so as not to damage the pelts rather than for animal welfare reasons. Foxes are killed by anal electrocution, by placing an electrode in their mouth and another in their anus and then their internal organs are fried alive. Minks are suffocated to death by Carbon Monoxide or Carbon Dioxide. They are crammed 50 to 70 minks into a gassing box. A veterinarian is not needed to kill the animals and does not have to be present when the animals are killed.

The fur farms in Ireland are not farms but instead factories and all of them are run by limited companies.

Spokesperson for ALiberation, Edmund Long said “There are few industries crueler or more useless than the fur industry. Nobody needs to wear fur except the animal the fur belonged to” “At present there is an Animal Welfare Bill being drafted by Minister Mary Coughlan’s own department, the Department of Agriculture. This bill has the power to end fur farming in Ireland. We would urge everyone to write to Minister Coughlan and the other TD’s in their own constituencies asking for an end to this mindless cruelty.”

Where: Donegal Town
When: Saturday, 29th March
Time: 1.30pm

Letter writing details
For details on TD’s in your constituency, please contact aliberationnow@gmail.com

Donegal South West
Minister Mary Coughlan, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, East End House, Old Laghey Road, Donegal Town, Co Donegal
mary.coughlan@oireachtas.ie

Minister Pat Gallagher, Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children Dungloe, Co. Donegal
pat.gallagher@oireachtas.ie

Dinny McGinley, TD, Magheralosk, Bunbeg P.O., Co. Donegal
dinny.mcginley@oireachtas.ie

Donegal North East
Niall Blaney, TD, Plunkett O'Boyle Terrace, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
niall.blaney@oireachtas.ie

Dr. James McDaid, TD, Pearse Road, Letterkenny, Co Donegal
jim.mcdaid@oireachtas.ie

Joe McHugh, TD, Claggan, Carrigart, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
joe.mchugh@oireachtas.ie

All addresses may be replaced with “Leinster House, Kildare St, Dublin 2.”