Animal Equality protests against the Finnish fur industry
Fri, 26 Feb 2010
Eleven Animal Equality activists have staged a protest in front of the Finnish Embassy in Madrid (Spain) against the fur industry, calling for the abolition of all fur farms and advocating animal rights. While holding placards showing images of the Finnish fur farms obtained during a recent investigation, the activists explained to the public why fur farming should be prohibited and in addition, all types of animal exploitation.

Animal Equality is an international organization dedicated to raising awareness of the suffering and deaths of nonhuman animals as victims of speciesism and working towards the abolition of animal use.

Nonhuman animals are regarded as property. They are victims of a mentality that considers them objects or tools that exist for human benefit. Whether for food, clothes, in laboratories or as entertainment, millions of nonhuman animals are confined, forced to suffer or killed due to species prejudice. Animal Equality exists solely to help challenge this prejudice and uses all its resources to combat it and promote an ethical lifestyle: veganism.
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