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so it,s legal to kill cats and use their fur in Switzerland
#8234998 - 04/03/08 07:15 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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those cold hearted swiss, i guess it,s in their genetics to be uncaring robots, what with doing all the nazi banking, using foreign workers and not giving any of them a chance at citizenship, and these days letting cats be killed if they venture 200 yards away from home,very unhappy with swiss people
"The disappearance of hundreds of household cats has sparked calls for an official inquiry amid fears that they could have been killed, skinned and turned into blankets.
Concern has been fuelled by the existence of a legal Swiss trade in cat fur, which is reputed to be good for rheumatism. But cat blanket retailers have denounced allegations of widespread cat-napping across the border in France as absurd. They insist that they buy skins from wild felines killed in Switzerland and Britain.
Patricia Dolciani, head of the French Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) in Thonon-les-Bains, in the Alps, has called on the gendar-merie to launch an investigation.
She says that her team has registered the disappearance of at least 550 cats in the region so far this year, more than double the number for the whole of 2006. “What really raised our suspicions was when people started ringing to say they had lost more than one cat. One person near Megève, for instance, lost three in a day.
“It’s quite possible to lose a cat, of course. They can get run over. But three in the same day in the same place in the same family is more suspicious.” The sense of panic gripping pet owners in the Alps was heightened when Marcelle Marchand, who has a refuge for wild cats, found one of her animals caught in a trap.
Albert Vercelotti was not so lucky. Both his cats, Marx and Lisa, disappeared from his Alpine chalet, he said. “We’re sad and unhappy. We don’t know what happened to them.” One theory put forward by the SPA is that the pets have fallen victim to traffickers feeding the fur trade on the other side of the border. “You’re allowed to kill cats and sell their fur in Switzerland, unlike France,’ said Mrs Dolciani. “So perhaps that’s where the cats are ending up. “We don’t know – they might be taken for laboratories who want to experiment on live animals or for other reasons; we don’t know.
“But it’s important that there’s an investigation so that the authorities can carry out a thorough investigation of the records of Swiss tanneries.” Swiss media say that thousands of cat fur blankets are made every year, and almost all are sold to people suffering from rheumatism. Tanneries say that they buy the fur for about SwFr5 (£2.20) from hunters who kill wild cats to keep the feline population in check. The blankets have a retail price of between SwFr40 and SwFr50.
Sylviane Ghielmini, who sells cat blankets at her shop in Yvonand, in the Vaud district, told The Times: “I am totally mystified by these accusations. The cat fur trade is small and not very lucrative and I really can’t see why traffickers would want to get involved. “I sell ten blankets a year and all to people in pain with rheumatism. “When these allegations broke I phoned my wholesalers and they said they’d never heard of anyone trafficking cats between France and Switzerland.
“One told me his supplier was in Switzerland and the other said it was in England.” Swiss tanneries say that the trafficking claims have been propagated by animal rights activists in France as part of a campaign to ban the cat fur trade.
But Tomi Tomek, the founder of SOS Chats, a Swiss cat-protection association, said that she had contacted a tannery pretending to be a customer. The owner said that he had about a hundred furs in stock and sent her three. “He told me they were wild cats killed by hunters or peasants. But if that’s the case, where were the bullet holes?”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2886450.ece
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Re: so it,s legal to kill cats and use their fur in Switzerland [Re: 5150]
#8235001 - 04/03/08 07:15 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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lame
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Re: so it,s legal to kill cats and use their fur in Switzerland [Re: Coaster]
#8235098 - 04/03/08 07:37 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah WTF cats make totally legit fur suppliers. In Iowa a Coyote fur or coon will bring you 25, a good deer maybe 50 but a cat or special dog... man were in the quad digits now ....
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Re: so it,s legal to kill cats and use their fur in Switzerland [Re: 5150]
#8236919 - 04/04/08 01:34 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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5150 said: “He told me they were wild cats killed by hunters or peasants. But if that’s the case, where were the bullet holes?”
Gripping stuff. Just like ZEITGEIST.
What I find a bit sad is a whole roast piglet. But they taste so good that I tend to get over it at the second bite.
I can't really get too worked up about using kitty fur. Or puppy soup for that matter. Maybe I'm a bad person
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Re: so it,s legal to kill cats and use their fur in Switzerland [Re: koppie]
#8236952 - 04/04/08 01:58 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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MEEEOW!
Lol, I actually haven't even bothered to look at the original post. The Swiss are Nazi cat skinners?
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Re: so it,s legal to kill cats and use their fur in Switzerland [Re: 5150]
#8236964 - 04/04/08 02:11 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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i dont think cats are any different than minks, sheep, rabbit, and whatever other kinds of fur are being used. it's all fucked up...
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Re: so it,s legal to kill cats and use their fur in Switzerland [Re: razmablues]
#8237008 - 04/04/08 02:36 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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the swiss rule, fuck cats.
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Re: so it,s legal to kill cats and use their fur in Switzerland [Re: razmablues]
#8237048 - 04/04/08 03:19 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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razmablues said: i dont think cats are any different than minks, sheep, rabbit, and whatever other kinds of fur are being used. it's all fucked up...
Shouldn't you be more angered by the people doing it? The government gives what the people want(sometimes). And c'mon, you're dissing the swiss banking with nazi's? The swiss take money from everyone. Why would they discriminate vs one person's agenda when they clearly are nondiscriminant against so many other investors/bankees.
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Re: so it,s legal to kill cats and use their fur in Switzerland [Re: Bridgeburner]
#8237266 - 04/04/08 07:31 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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b0red5tiff said: the swiss rule, fuck cats.
QFT.
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Re: so it,s legal to kill cats and use their fur in Switzerland [Re: Helixx]
#8237611 - 04/04/08 10:06 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Helixx said:
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razmablues said: i dont think cats are any different than minks, sheep, rabbit, and whatever other kinds of fur are being used. it's all fucked up...
Shouldn't you be more angered by the people doing it? The government gives what the people want(sometimes). And c'mon, you're dissing the swiss banking with nazi's? The swiss take money from everyone. Why would they discriminate vs one person's agenda when they clearly are nondiscriminant against so many other investors/bankees.
of course i'm angered by the people doing it, but i'm saying we can start right here in the US as far as pointing fingers go in the fur trade business
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Re: so it,s legal to kill cats and use their fur in Switzerland [Re: 5150]
#8237631 - 04/04/08 10:13 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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http://news.search.ch/inland/2008-02-14/katzenfell-handel-soll-verboten-werden
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Katzenfell-Handel verboten werden soll 14.2.2008 Die Schweiz soll nicht zu einer Drehscheibe des internationalen Handels mit Katzenfellen werden. Die Schweiz soll nicht zu einer Drehscheibe des internationalen Handels Katzenfellen werden mit. Der Bundesrat ist deshalb zur Entgegennahme einer Motion bereit, die eine entsprechende Lücke im Tierschutzgesetz schliessen will. The Federal ist deshalb zur einer Entgegennahme Motion bereit, die eine entsprechende Lücke im Tierschutzgesetz will schliessen. Mit einer erneuten Revision des Tierschutzgesetzes soll nicht nur die Einfuhr sondern auch der Handel und die Ausfuhr von Katzenfellen verboten werden, wie es heisst. Mit einer erneuten Revision des Tierschutzgesetzes soll nicht nur die Einfuhr sondern auch der Handel und die von Ausfuhr Katzenfellen verboten werden, wie es heisst. Dies will Nationalrat Luc Barthassat CVP/GE mit seiner Motion sicherstellen. Dies will Nationalrat Luc Barthassat CVP / GE mit seiner Motion sicherstellen. Tierschützer beanstanden seit langem, dass Katzen und Hunde wegen ihres Fells grausam getötet werden. Tierschützer beanstanden seit langem, dass Katzen Hunde und wegen ihres Fells grausam getötet werden.
Short translation summary: Feline fur trading, import and export is supposed to be banned in Switzerland in the near future.
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Re: so it,s legal to kill cats and use their fur in Switzerland [Re: koppie]
#8238186 - 04/04/08 12:57 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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koppie said:
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5150 said: “He told me they were wild cats killed by hunters or peasants. But if that’s the case, where were the bullet holes?”
Gripping stuff. Just like ZEITGEIST.
What I find a bit sad is a whole roast piglet. But they taste so good that I tend to get over it at the second bite.
I can't really get too worked up about using kitty fur. Or puppy soup for that matter. Maybe I'm a bad person
there is a big difference between a cat and a pig,pigs r filthy disgusting creatures , maybe u have some swiss lineage,if i was in charge of a bank and i knew certain people were cooking others in large ovens, i wouldnt accept the cookers $, i would put a sign up "not accepting money from genocidal people"
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