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1988 Jeanne
Jeanne was just one of the 300 beavers whom a PETA investigative team rescued from a fur farm in Montana.
When the team first arrived to help the neglected, starving animals, they found row after row of concrete pens containing dead and dying beavers. The stench of rotting flesh and excrement was overpowering, and the normally vegetarian beavers had begun cannibalizing each other out of sheer desperation. The animals were suffering from malnutrition, dehydration, broken bones, pneumonia, and other ailments.
Sadly, millions of beavers and other animals are killed on fur farms every year. Confined to crowded, filthy cages where they endure extreme temperatures and unbearable boredom, death finally comes by way of suffocation, poisoning, neck-breaking, or genital electrocution. Sometimes these methods only stun—not kill—the animals, who end up being skinned alive.
Luckily, Jeanne and many others were able to be rescued and rehabilitated. The fur farm went bankrupt and was closed down for good, and this case helped prove to the public that furs of any origin are products of pain and symbols of sadism, not status.
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