In case you missed it, this past week an incredibly brave activist, Jacqueline Traide, endured painful and humiliating tests in the storefront of LUSH Cosmetics (one of my absolute favorite companies, which I now love even more!), to call attention to the millions of animals poked, prodded, caged, abused, tortured, and killed all day every day across the world, in the name of “science,” or worse, vanity.

LUSH (partnered with Humane Society International) continues to be a leader in the global campaign against unnecessary animal testing for cosmetics.

Please join them by supporting their work (shop with them!), boycotting companies that DO test on animals, and especially signing their online petition!!!

Foxes spend their entire lives in filthy, cramped conditions, in which many lives are lost to infection or cannibalism, until they are slaughtered to become vests or fur trim for INTERMIX.

We’re close to hitting 50,000 signatures on our INTERMIX: Please Stop Selling Fur petition- help us get there! Do it for them.

True Religion has yet to reply to our petition or campaign asking them to stop selling fur from trapped coyotes and Chinese raccoon dogs. Once a fur-free retailer, True Religion recently went back on their humane promise and decided to give in to pressure from the fur industry.

Fur “fashion” is NEVER worth the horrific cruelty committed behind manufacturers’ doors. Please sign & share the petition widely! 

http://www.change.org/petitions/true-religion-please-go-fur-free-again

For him.

Please sign & share. They need us to win this. Now.

http://www.change.org/petitions/intermix-please-go-fur-free

Have you joined our “I Will Not Shop at INTERMIX Until They Go Fur-Free” photo campaign yet? It’s a fun, quick, and easy way to stand up for the lonely and forgotten fur-bearing animals sitting in fur farm cages. Intermix needs to see the faces of the shoppers they’ve lost due to their refusal to go humane.

Download and print the sign here!

Take a photo of yourself holding it!

Post the photo on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, etc- and don’t forget to tag @INTERMIX! (PS- please send me a copy at jessica@furfreela.com to make sure we receive it.)

Can’t wait to see your beautiful compassionate faces! 

xoxo

STOP the “Kill The Gays” Bill!

“Ugandan legislators have re-introduced the dangerous Anti-Homosexuality Bill, a proposed law that would criminalize homosexuality in the country with extreme penalties. Under this proposed law, LGBT people could be killed or sentenced to life in prison.”

This petition asks Citibank and Barclays, both of which have major investments in the Ugandan economy, to publicly condemn this horrific bill. Winning their support could save the lives of countless LGBT people in Uganda. They have 13,000 + signatures, let’s bump that up.

Click here. This is important.

ATTENTION: Supporters of our INTERMIX: Please Go Fur-Free Campaign!

Intermix buyers are currently at New York Fashion Week, where I’m told cold-hearted designers are throwing inherently cruel fur-laden garments on any runway that will have them.

We CANNOT allow these buyers to ignore the connection between the items they’re seeing draped over models and the fur-bearing animals being used & abused to create them. Purchasing decisions for the fall/winter 2012 season are being made as we speak. NOW is the time for another huge push.

Please sign & especially share the petition far and wide! Thank you!

http://www.change.org/petitions/intermix-please-go-fur-free