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12/18/08: Bunnies Hate Donna Karan's Killer Couture  
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From transport to battery cages to death: The making of rabbit fur.
PHOTO SOURCES: http://www.furfreeshopping.com/press.php?p=1203&more=1
http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2008/08/rabbits-the-poster-child-for-animal-rights

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Ms. Donna Karan
Donna Karan International, Inc.
550 Seventh Ave.
New York, NY 10018
ph: 212-789-1839; fax: 212-789-1856
email: sparham@   dkintl.com

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Dear Ms. Karan and Donna Karan International:

In today's progressive marketplace, Donna Karan designs lag behind Calvin
Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, J. Crew, Ann Taylor, Polo Ralph Lauren, Stella
McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, Todd Oldham, Marc Bouwer, and other popular
designers who don't use fur.

In fact, your reintroduction of old-fashioned rabbit skins is so offensive,
I am forced to boycott your lines until all dead animals are eliminated.

Rabbits factory-farmed for their fur are squeezed inside tiny wire cages
that cut into their non-padded paws. Before slaughter at 10-12 weeks (white
rabbits) or 8-9 months (Rex rabbits) many perish from dehydration,
starvation or self-mutilation.

Killers break necks and bludgeon skulls (smashing live rabbits against
walls) before stringing rabbits by their legs to behead them. Fur is
stripped from their bodies in full view of other living rabbits.

I urge Donna Karan International to choose conscientious couture over pain
and suffering. Please initiate a permanent fur-free policy.

With virtually no protections for fur-bearing animals, they're killed as
cheaply as possible. Pelts are often derived via genital electrocution. A
metal conductor is lodged in an animal's throat and an electric prod inserts
in the rectum -- so the killer can deliver a 240-volt blast of electricity.
The current is merely a paralyzing agent. The conscious, convulsing animal
endures a heart attack for two or more minutes.

Eighty-five percent of fur originates from factory fur farms. Sometimes
animals are "neck-popped," injected with pesticides, or asphyxiated with
carbon monoxide from unfiltered engine exhaust.

Animals trapped in the wild suffer no less. Those caught in leghold traps
may gnaw their teeth to the jawbone or chew off their feet to escape. Others
languish on trap lines for days before trappers return to fatally club,
stomp or drown them.

No matter how you market it, fur is synonymous with violence and death.
Please notify me about any steps forward to a permanent fur-free policy.

Thank you,

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SOURCE OF INFORMATION / REFERENCE LINKS
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DONNA KARAN'S KILLER FASHIONS
   http://www.donnakaranbunnybutcher.com/
The Rabbit: "Poster Child" for Animal Rights
   http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2008/08/rabbits-the-poster-child-for-animal-rights/
RabbitWise(R) Inc. / SECRET RABBIT FUR FARMS EXPOSED
   http://mysite.verizon.net/vze27h5b/id93.html
Investigation unearths cruel treatment of rabbits used in fur fashion
   http://www.furfreeshopping.com/press.php?p=1203&more=1
VIDEO: THE REAL FASHION VICTIMS
    http://TVanimal.org