While I normally don't write about animal rights, I too draw the line at cruelty. Let's talk about that wonderful feeling of slamming your own fingers in a car door.
A small group of animal rights activists affiliated with Direct Action Everywhere protested before the Empress Hotel in Victoria in opposition to its practice of selling fur items to its patrons.
The group has been holding protests sporadically at this location this year, such as on National Anti-Fur Day back in February.
Members denounce the practice of making fur items as cruel in the age of cheap fabrics, and particularly object to practices like leg-hold trapping which are legal in Canada in spite of being widely banned in dozens of countries across the globe.
The Empress Hotel offers fur products at some of its shops catering to well-off tourists, such as the Collections by 5th Avenue and the London Towne Boutique. Protesters consider these vanity luxury items.
Today’s protest was peaceful and legal, in contrast to animal rescue actions by other Direct Action Everywhere affiliates across the world, in which activists risk prison in order to expose animal cruelty on factory farms.
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