Objectives:

1. Students will understanding the reason faux should be the only option

2. Students will identify the difference between real and faux fur

3. Students will learn who PETA is

4. Students will understanding what goes on in fur farms and laboratories

5. Students will discuss the protesters and activists ways to fight back

6. Students will learn what you can do personally

 

Lesson:

A.) Identifying what’s real and faux (hook)

• Give students a sheet of faux and real fur

• Ask them to separate what they think of as the faux ones and real ones

    Q. What are your impressions of all the different materials in front of you?

B.) Quick lesson on PETA (introduction) (PETA)

    Q.What do you think PETA stands for?

• Started in 1980

• Largest Animal rights organization in the world

• Their mission is to give animals the rights they deserve

• Broke barrier and made people aware of what was going on

• Shock is how they compelle people

• “Rather Go Naked” Campaign

C.)What is Going on Inside These Fur Farms (lesson) (“The Fur Trade”)

• Fur farms scatter the nation

• The farms are in horrid conditions that are completely and entirely inhumane

• Most of the animals begin their lives and end their lives in the same place

• A lot of them are bred and killed just for the fur

• These poor rabbits, foxes, and minks have no chance to roam

• They are either put through horrific electrocution, gassing, snapping of their necks or just merely beaten.

• Raised in small, condensed cages that they are never allowed leave

• They live in constant physical and especially mental pain.

• Sealskin is taken from seals that are clubbed to death at two weeks old

• White foxes that are caught from the wild in steel-jaw traps are in so much pain that some bite off their limbs in order to escape

• Heavily pregnant ewes are killed and their unborn lambs removed for their coats

• It takes about 60-80 minks to create one coat

• VIDEO

D.) What is going on in the Laboratories (lesson) (“Animals Are Not”)

• Products we use everyday are tested on living creatures

• Chemicals are either force-feed, forced inhalation, or direct contact with skin

• serious and agonizing pain.

• When it comes to testing eye and skin irritation the chemical is trickled into the animal’s eyes or rubbed onto their exposed cleanly shaved skin.

• Reactions can include inflamed skin, ulcers, bleeding, bloody scabs, swollen eyelids, irritated and cloudy eyes, or even blindness

• Worst part is that the tests are often flawed because of the anatomical and physiological differences between human and animals

• Guinea pigs and mice are also used to test skin irritation

• They are infused with the chemicals and then watched for any allergic reactions

• Or have the chemical tested on their ears where they then are killed so that the ear can be removed and looked at closer

• VIDEO

D.) Protesters & Activists making a point themselves (Activity)

• Show images of scenes when celebrities are splattered with either paint or pie

    Q. What do you think of the attacks on celebrities?

C.) What Can We Do? (Lesson) (“Product Testing”)

• Buy faux

• Make a point to not give money to brands that have cruelty made clothes

• Keep the creatures in mind at next purchase

• If you must buy real, buy vintage, dont give the company the money now

• End the supply and demand of them