Animal rights activists stage naked protest in Barcelona
Animal rights activists braved chilly weather in Barcelona today to stage a naked protest to denounce the killing of animals to make fur coats.
Representing the number of minks it takes on average to make a fur coat, the 70 men and women lay down and curled up on the pavement outside Barcelona city hall in north-eastern Spain.
The protest, staged by AnimaNaturalis and PETA international animal rights groups, was watched by several dozen passers-by.
In a statement, AnimaNaturalis said millions of animals were captured, tortured and killed each year to make fur coats. In Spain alone, 26 million animals – among them rabbits, foxes, minks and lambs – were killed in 2003 to make coats, the group said.
“If people could see the animals in fur farms, they would never use a fur coat,” AnimaNaturalis president Leonora Esquivel, said in the statement.
“The look on those animals’ faces stays in your mind, a look that says: ‘why?”’
