ALLIANCE FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS (A.F.A.R.)
Working towards animal liberation since 1989,utilising education,campaigns for legislative initiatives and direct action.
CLOSE BARNARDOS FURRIERS and more....
The Barnardos furriers family Photo Sun Tribune 2006.
CLOSE BARNARDOS FUR SHOP CAMPAIGN. Dublin.
BACKGROUND
The campaign by animal rights groups to close Barnardos Fur shop (est 1812) has been going on since the 1970s, literally hundreds of demos have gained headlines over the years with coffins, cages, etc gaining public support. Currently there are demos staged weekly outside the shop on at least 2 days a week. Over the years many ALF actions have been directed at the Barnardos including their private cars being targeted a few times at their home and their shop being vandalised and painted to varying degrees. Their locks have been tampered with too many times to count. This shop now has CCTV installed, new locks and shutters and new security gates at their home reveal the extent of the pressure meted against them. More security personnel is now employed in the shop.
PRESSURE IS NEEDED INTERNATIONALLY.
Consistent demos (for the last couple of years) and at closing time at their shop is seemingly taking effect with a large Gardai presence. Barnardos staff now have an ex- fur farmer outside on a Saturday to try shout us down. It is now obvious that their once sneering faces are often visibly upset by our presence. They are feeling the pressure but we need an extra push from everyone reading this to help us. We will continue till the shutters close on 108 Grafton Street and the prospects never looked so good. Please help in any way you can by asking this furrier family to give up their cruel, bloody trade in animal skins. Ring, post, call or attend our demos as the extra pressure I feel would achieve our purpose. The details you need are below. PLEASE DO SOMETHING TODAY….just ask them to close politely of course.
DETAILS
Directors:
Caroline Lavinia Barnardo.31. Hillside Drive. Rathfarnham, Dublin14. Ireland.
(Elizabeth Barnardo Byrne.29 Eden House. Tudor Grange. Dublin14.-not living here now)
Phone BARNARDOS shop at 108 Grafton Street, 00 353 1 6777867, fax +6773270.
NOTE: ROHU FURRIERS is also owned by Barnardos.2-4 Castle Market Dublin.2
Phone shop at 00 353 1 6779370-(from Ireland 01 6779370)
QUOTES FROM THIS FAMILY who make a living from death,suffering and animal skins...
Articles; Family wraps up the fur business.http;//www.ireland.com/
‘We have to be the best to get business ,Im very proud of our name. When I go to auctions in Seattle and Copenhagen to buy skins as I do four times a year ,it dos’ent matter how much I spend because the Barnardo name in trade and business holds good’ Elizabeth Barnardo.
Article online :Pat Dolan on CHILDRENS RIGHTS.
FUR FARM FOOTAGE~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dyrsfrihet/sets/72157615485338679/show/
More fur resources on resources page.
SEE the Video page on this site.
Elizabeth Barnardo..jpg)
Grassroots Group Changes Top Department Store’s Fur Policy Ireland.com
10.12.20“To date the Brown Thomas Group has operated a strict policy of stocking only items made from skins of animals in the food chain. “Stephen Sealey, the Brown Thomas Group Buying Director for Fashions and Accessories, has already communicated this policy to all suppliers to Brown Thomas and BT2 stores.”
Action groups AFAR, ARAN, ALiberation and CAFT Ireland said they collected thousands of signatures for a petition to boycott Brown Thomas until they went fur free. The chain has joined a growing list of influential designers and stores that have removed themselves from the fur trade including Marks & Spencer, Dunnes Stores, Debenhams, Next, Top Shop, and Karen Millen. Ed Long, of ALiberation action group, said having no real fur sold in Brown Thomas or BT2 stores will be a significant blow to the fur industry in this country, which he claims kills 170,000 animals in six fur farms in Ireland each year. “Fur is cruel and unnecessary,” he said.
“Nobody will die from not wearing fur except the animal who will have been caged for their entire life. “In the past other large stores had committed to a fur free policy only to then betray the public and later sell fur. We trust that Brown Thomas will be faithful to their word.”
10.12.20
“To date the Brown Thomas Group has operated a strict policy of stocking only items made from skins of animals in the food chain. “Stephen Sealey, the Brown Thomas Group Buying Director for Fashions and Accessories, has already communicated this policy to all suppliers to Brown Thomas and BT2 stores.”
Action groups AFAR, ARAN, ALiberation and CAFT Ireland said they collected thousands of signatures for a petition to boycott Brown Thomas until they went fur free. The chain has joined a growing list of influential designers and stores that have removed themselves from the fur trade including Marks & Spencer, Dunnes Stores, Debenhams, Next, Top Shop, and Karen Millen. Ed Long, of ALiberation action group, said having no real fur sold in Brown Thomas or BT2 stores will be a significant blow to the fur industry in this country, which he claims kills 170,000 animals in six fur farms in Ireland each year. “Fur is cruel and unnecessary,” he said.
“Nobody will die from not wearing fur except the animal who will have been caged for their entire life. “In the past other large stores had committed to a fur free policy only to then betray the public and later sell fur. We trust that Brown Thomas will be faithful to their word.”
Ban on Seal Products in the EU
STRASBOURG, France, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Humane Society International
congratulated the European Parliament for voting overwhelmingly in favour of
a strong ban on trade in seal products."Today's vote in the European Parliament marks a historic victory in the
campaign to stop the commercial slaughter of seals around the world," said
Mark Glover, director of Humane Society International/UK. "The European
Union has acted on behalf of its citizens, and its decision will save
millions of seals from a horrible fate."
"The European Union has made history by ending its trade in seal products,"
said Rebecca Aldworth, director of Humane Society International/Canada.
"This ban spells the beginning of the end of Canada's globally condemned
seal slaughter."
The Parliament voted for a strong Regulation that will eliminate the placing
of seal products on the EU market, closing a primary market for Canada's
commercial seal hunt. The Council and Commission have already agreed to the
text, making Tuesday's plenary vote the final step in achieving the
regulation. In light of the overwhelming vote in favour of the agreed upon
regulation by the Parliament, the regulation will go into effect in 2010.
The EU has been a primary market for the Canadian sealing industry,
accounting for about one-third of reported seal skin exports. Globally, the
EU accounts for one-quarter of the world trade in seal products.
In recent years, 11 countries have banned their trade in seal products or
announced their intentions to do so. They join the United States, which
prohibited seal product trade in 1972.
* April 2009 - Prices for seal fur in Canada declined to just $15 CAD --
a drop of 86 percent from 2006 -- largely due to the pending EU prohibition.
As a result, many sealers chose not to participate in the slaughter. Out of
a quota of 338,200 seals, less than 60,000 have been killed to date --
making it likely that a quarter of a million baby seals will have been
spared a cruel death this year.
* March 2009 - Canadian Senator Mac Harb introduced the first bill in
Canadian history to end the commercial seal hunt.
* March 2009 - The U.S. Senate introduced a resolution calling upon the
Canadian government to end the seal hunt, and on the European Union to
introduce a strong prohibition on seal product trade.
* 2006 - Four hundred twenty-five members of the European Parliament
introduced a historic resolution to ban EU trade in seal products. That
year, the Council of Europe passed its own resolution calling on its 25
member states to promote initiatives aimed at banning the trade in seal
products.
* 2006 - Croatia and Mexico banned their trade in seal products.
* In the past decade - Nine EU Member states banned their trade in seal
products or announced their intentions to do so.
Facts about the seal slaughter: * Canada's commercial seal hunt is the largest slaughter of marine
mammals on earth, with hundreds of thousands of pups killed annually for
their fur. * Veterinary experts have concluded that the commercial seal hunt is
inherently inhumane because of the conditions in which it operates and the
speed at which it must be conducted.
* Canada's commercial seal hunt accounts for less than one-half of one
percent of the GDP of Newfoundland, and on average, less than 5 percent of
the annual incomes of the individuals who kill the seals.
* The overwhelming majority of Canadians is opposed to the commercial
seal slaughter (Environics Research 2005) and supports foreign nations
ending their trade in seal products (Pollara 2007).
"Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes and dingoes - by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billion and eats them. This in turn kills man by the millions, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth."
David Coats
Old MacDonald's Factory Farm
AFAR is a member of the INTERNATIONAL ANTI-FUR COALITION. See www.antifurcoalition.org
AFAR fully supports the SHAC prisoners.SHAC IRELAND see www.shac.net
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- CAR BOOT SALES: We need saleable items for our car boot sales,anything considered.Its saving the planet too!
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