http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png http://jezebel.com/tag/chinesefur http://jezebel.com/tag/chinesefur The Swiss Animal Protection Agency has released a harrowing report that chronicles the Chinese fur trade, which produces approximately 85 percent of the world's fur products and whose animal treatment is almost completely unregulated. Although the practices employed — beating animals with a metal or wooden stick or swinging the animal until it slams to the ground, then skinning it alive — are horrifying, SAPA spokesman Mark Rissi said that fur producers had no qualms about opening their farms to the organization: "As animals are considered objects in China, there is little or no awareness for the suffering of these sentient beings," he said, essentially describing a stark cultural divide, and adding that "the cruelty found was beyond our expectations, and it was hard to document without interfering. It caused nightmares to the team." (Warning: the descriptions and videos are very graphic. Possibly NSFW - certainly upsetting.) [World Net Daily]

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