The skinned alive claim is based on the video that shows Asian men (probably Chinese) taking Tanuki (called raccoon dogs by westerners, but a non-domesticated canid species that looks like a fat fox) out of a truck and whacking their heads on the sidewalk to kill/stun them.
Then they were put on gambrels, still alive, and skinned. Then the bodies were tossed in the back of the truck, and one animal raised it's head and looked around.
It was skinned.
The animal rights people called the animals "dogs" inferring that they are domestic dogs (wrongly) and people around the world are horrified by it. Their fur was labeled "Raccoon" at Macy's and other stores, which the Humane Society found out about, and so there was a massive recall.
CNN, MSNBC the mainstream media in general, didn't follow up at all on the story. They just parroted the press releases from PETA!
They told the whole country that these were DOGS skinned alive and sold in our stores for coat trim...
To date, nobody knows where the video was shot. The Asian men depicted grin and laugh at the cameraman as they do their dispatching and skinning alive.
Skinning is a chore, I think that these guys were paid by the camera-man (who is never named) and THAT'S why they are smiling.
I think it's all set up. If the guy really loved animals he would have told authorities who did the atrocity and where, but he kept silent. That's really, really suspicious to me!
But this video is the most damaging thing to the fur industry since Grey Owl. It's truly one of the most horrific things I think I'll ever witness on film.
It's just one reason why we should quit buying things from China, ANYTHING from China. They practice slavery in brick making factories and mines, manufacture fake baby forumla, resulting in infant deaths, fake birth control pills made of rice powder, and fake glycerin that caused the deaths of 300 people in Panama to die from simply taking cough syrup and brushing their teeth.
However, it gives the public the idea that all fur farms are like this...
