
This was your first attack but will not be your last,” an anonymous ALF member wrote in an email to activist magazine Bite Back. “This is what you get for profiting off of violence and suffering.

both had a foul-smelling chemical sprayed into their stores early Tuesday. within a three-block radius near Spadina Ave. since 1988, but Thursday’s giveaway marks a first in Canada.īut the event comes on the heels of an attack on two stores that sell fur and leather. Their so-called “fur kitchens” have been held in the U.S. PETA receives hundreds of donated coats every year from people who have had a change of heart about fur. “We can’t bring the animals back, but we can bring a little warmth to people in desperate need,” said Emily Lavender of PETA. PETA will distribute 30 fur coats to women from four homeless shelters at John Innes Community Centre Thursday, hoping to send the message that only Toronto’s most needy citizens should ever wear fur. The fur is flying among animal-rights activists in Toronto, as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals stages a fur coat giveaway days after the Animal Liberation Front vandalized two downtown stores.
