On December 17, 2005 members of Mercy For Animals held a silent vigil against the violent and bloody fur industry outside the Marshall Field’s in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The demonstration aimed to encourage holiday shoppers to choose fur-free fashions.

MFA members displayed signs, banners, and distributed literature describing how every year millions of animals are trapped, drowned, and beaten to death in the wild and gassed, strangled, electrocuted, and skinned on fur farms before being made into garments. An activist wearing a “body screen TV” aired graphic footage depicting animals suffering on fur farms. Television news coverage of the event reached thousands of Chicago residents with the message that there is nothing fashionable about animal cruelty.

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