‘We Want You to Change’ Ads Target Canada Goose Flagship Store

PETA Bus Shelter Ads Urge People Never to Wear Brand’s Hideously Cruel Fur-and-Feather Parkas

For Immediate Release:
January 13, 2020

Contact:
Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382

As part of PETA’s robust anti–Canada Goose winter campaign across the U.S. and Canada, the group has erected three bus shelter ads featuring a gentle goose and a noble coyote just outside as well as down the street from the company’s flagship store in the West Edmonton Mall.

“No jacket is worth the pain and suffering of coyotes who can struggle in traps for days or geese whose throats are slit in slaughterhouses,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA will continue to deliver blows to Canada Goose until it drops fur and feathers and goes animal-free.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—points out that trapped coyote mothers desperate to get back to their starving pups have been known to attempt to chew off their own legs in order to escape and that many trapped animals succumb to the elements, blood loss, infection, or attacks by predators before trappers return to kill them. Ducks and geese used for down are typically shipped in all weather extremes to slaughterhouses, where they’re stunned, their throats are cut, and their bodies are dunked into scalding-hot defeathering tanks.

Following a PETA complaint and a subsequent U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigation, Canada Goose stopped claiming that its standards ensure that its suppliers don’t abuse animals.

A wide variety of top brands—including Hemp Tailor, Save the Duck, NOIZE, and Wuxly Movement—sell warm, stylish, cruelty-free coats that no animal had to suffer and die for.

The ads are located at 8824 178 St. N.W. (near the intersection with 89 Avenue N.W.), 8703 178 St. N.W. (near the intersection with 87 Avenue N.W.), and 9224 178 St. N.W. (near the intersection with 93 Avenue N.W.).

For more information, please visit PETA.org.