Where fur comes from

Approximately 85% of fur comes from China, where animals including cats and dogs are skinned alive. Please get the facts about fur.

Buh-bye, bloody ShopNBC!

ShopNBC gets worse every day
The high-end vendors are mostly all gone. Hosts keep getting the axe. SNBC is scooping up the dregs from other networks. On a blog dedicated to all things home shopping, I came across this comment from a former enthusiast of the network:

Anonymous said...

I use to be such a ShopNBC junkie. All the good vendors have pretty much disappeared and the jewelry seems to be K-Mart blue light specials. I bought a pair of earrings from Sonia Bitton (expensive) and the post broke off. Galerie de Bijoux repaired them, but I always thought they were supposed to be really high end. Then I bought a pair of chocolate diamond hoops (not from Sonia) and a few months down the road, one of the diamonds fell out. I called ShopNBC and the warranty had expired. I was admonished for not buying an extended warranty and had to pay for the replacement myself. I think extended warranties are a way of bilking more money out of the consumer. It always intrigues me that vendors can't back their product without the consumer paying for it. Anyway, I guess my point is that ShopNBC has gone down hill

May 19, 2009 11:02 AM

Another description of the dismal downturn at ShopNBC:

Anonymous said...

Used to be such a Shop junkie, too. The quality of merchandise they offer now is an insult to my intelligence and such a far, far cry from the goods they sold years ago.. I don't know how this channel stays on the air. And like another poster, I watch it for comedic value.

May 19, 2009 4:44 PM

And, finally, another viewer listed her complaints of rude customer service, after receiving a "too many items returned" letter. She had a few words for the CEO, including:
"SHOPNBC has no regard for customers."

I can barely contain my happiness, because ShopNBC is notorious for reneging on its public promise to go fur-free. See ya later, ShopNBC! Happily, the evil CEO William Lansing was ousted in October 2008. Next, Rene Aiu was in...and was out seen after! Randy Ronning is said to be the CEO of the moment, but stay tuned. Things come and go so quickly in Minnesota.

Karma is a bitch, isn't it!

Stop the slaughter of baby seals!

March 15, 2009--demonstration in midtown Manhattan near the office of the Canadian consulate. Demonstration co-sponsored by Friends of Animals and New York City Animal Rights Meetup.

Fur labeling and your right to know

Consumers have a right to know. Unfortunately, the fur industry is banking on your ignorance. And retailers including Bloomingdale's and Bergdorf Goodman are flouting the law. Get the facts about fur trim and deceptive fur labeling in this video from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). An HSUS undercover investigation a few years ago demonstrated that major retailers were selling items trimmed in fur from the raccoon dog from China, a major exporter of fur destined for the United States and a place of horrific torture of fur-bearing animals. Raccoon dogs often are skinned alive.

Compassion is the fashion!

One more holiday windows anti-fur protest! PLEASE COME OUT!

When: Sunday, December 28, 2-4 p.m.
Where: Lord and Taylor, 424 5th Ave. (by 38th St.), New York
Sponsored by Caring Activists Against Fur

Another day of fur haggery

Check out this matronly fur hag! She's wearing the whole fur farm! Draped head to toe in the skins of fur-bearing animals that were killed by the cruelest methods imaginable: being skinned alive, or anally and orally electrocuted, or having pesticide injected straight into their hearts. Even though this woman is short of stout and, dare I say "dumpy," this coat is about and getup represents many dozens of murdered animals.
December 20, 2008

Fur hags

Out and about: December 20, 2008
Ever notice this about those women who are draped in the skins of animals that were anally electrocuted or skinned alive: These dames are BIG and MEAN-LOOKING! Shaped like a refrigerator!
And, it's as if they took the face-lift money and sprang for a deeply psychotic look!