Cruelty Inside Every Fur-Trimmed, Feather-Stuffed Canada Goose Jacket
Sorry, Canada Goose, but there’s no way to source coyote fur or down feathers for your jackets without causing animals terrible suffering and painful deaths.
Every bit of fur trim on a Canada Goose jacket came from an animal who didn’t want to die.
Animals trapped for their fur can suffer for days and face blood loss, frostbite, gangrene, and attacks by predators. If they aren’t dead when the trapper returns, they may be shot, strangled, stomped on, or bludgeoned to death.
Coyotes who are trapped—especially mothers who are desperate to return to their starving pups—may even attempt to chew off their own limbs to escape. Trappers tear animal families apart and beat immobile coyotes to death—they are enemies of wildlife.
The law allows animals to be trapped with torture devices.
Canada Goose’s claims of “licensed trappers” and “standards” mean nothing for animals. Traps that are certified under international treaties include steel leg clamps, head-crushing traps, body-gripping traps, and neck snares, which all cause animals a tremendous amount of suffering.
Traps kill endangered species and animal companions.
Traps are indiscriminate and snare any animal unfortunate enough to set foot on them. Trappers call unintended victims “trash kills“—and they may include endangered species, such as the Canada lynx, who suffer and die in the same traps intended for coyotes. Every year, dogs, cats, birds, and other animals are also crippled or killed by traps.
Killing coyotes as a form of population control is cruel and will backfire.
Coyotes naturally stabilize their population: When some are removed from an area, others soon move in to take their place. When coyotes are killed or removed through trapping, the survivors can replenish their population by breeding at an earlier age and having more pups, as well as increasing pups’ survival rate. Even if 70 percent of a coyote population is killed off, those who remain can quickly rebound.
Canada Goose also uses down from ducks and geese who are killed violently.
Birds whose feathers are stuffed into Canada Goose jackets may have been improperly stunned, which means that they’re still conscious when their throats are cut and they’re dumped into scalding-hot water to be defeathered.
What You Can Do
Always shop compassionately, and let your friends and family know that you won’t be supporting Canada Goose as long as it continues to use animals for clothing.
Wear this bold tee and tell everyone you know to ditch fur and down!
