Hello everyone~
This time I'm going to tell you about the Fur Free Walk in Tokyo!
Although I haven't been vegetarian for all my life, I always hated people wearing real fur!
When I was a kid no one liked it.
We had that one shop in our town that sold heavy fur-coats and it's displays were covered with red colour more than once.
However..
Over the last two years there was this development, speaking for Germany, that fur seemed to become socially accepted again.
Last winter so many stores sold jackets with fur trim, boots with fur trim and hats with fur trim.
Whenever I saw one of these people wearing fur, an inner anger rose inside me.
I even printed flyers and handed them out to young teenage girls or left them behind in trains, showing them what the animal had to go through before ending up on their clothes.
I also changed seats or volunteerly stood up in a train, when a person wearing fur would sit down next to me.
"I rather not sit down, than sitting next to one wearing real fur!"
Whenever I said this out loudly, the person wearing fur looked either ashamed or angry, but everyone else around nodded and I got a lot of positive feedback.
I'm not the type of person throwing colour bombs or spitting at people. I think with those little, peaceful actions it's a lot easier to achieve something.
Well,
in Japan real fur is something that doesn't bother nearly as many people as in Germany...
BUT
I was surprised myself when I found out about the fur free walk a few month back!
This video is from the walk 2008, but it happens yearly!
They organize walks in other major cities as well, so please check their site! : )
Here is the link to their English page for the walk 2013
http://www.no-fur.com/en/demo/#.Uidwdza-30s
If you are in Tokyo at this time and are planning to go, let me know!!
