Animal activists take stand against Beijing fur trade fair  

北京皮草展會遭抵制 主辦方喊冤稱不會虐殺動物

近日，即將于今天舉辦的北京國際皮草展覽會受到了動物保護(hù)人士的關(guān)注，有網(wǎng)友稱堅決抵制該展覽，引來不少支持者。對此，皮草展覽會負(fù)責(zé)人表示，在網(wǎng)上有反對之聲很正常，目前皮草行業(yè)從動物養(yǎng)殖到最后制衣已經(jīng)形成正規(guī)產(chǎn)業(yè)，與為飲食供應(yīng)的豬、牛、羊養(yǎng)殖業(yè)沒有差別。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- Animal rights activists have voiced opposition on China's twitter-like Sina Weibo to an ongoing fur trade fair held in the capital, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.

Ahead of the trade fair at Beijing Exhibition Center, bloody photos showing minks being killed and cruelly skinned were posted to Sina Weibo, in contrast to gorgeous celebrities wearing mink coats.

Animal rights activists also plan to hand out bloody photos and petitions during the event.

A marketing staff member at the fair, surnamed Wang, said similar fairs had been held in Chongqing, Kunming, Guiyang as well as other cities and that the protest is "normal."

Industrialized mink and sheep farming is legal, Wang explained, with painless euthanasia adopted on the assembly line.

"How will farmers survive if they don't sell fur or wool?" he asked.

In 2012, animal rights activists held a peaceful protest against Canadian seal products at the annual China Fur & Leather Products Fair in Beijing.