Real Fur & Astrakan Advertising on Mumsnet

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On another thread there's a discussion about whether the clothing company La Fille Unique goes against the Mumsnet campaign about letting 'girls be girls' and not be portrayed in an 'adult' light.

I thought it was worth also highlighting the fact that this company appears to be selling products which have real animal fur on them: www.la-fille-unique.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=fur

They also sell an astrakan coat (astrakan is generally made of aborted lamb foetuses).

Not nice things to dress our children in!

I've contacted Mumsnet to ask them to sever ties with this terribly unethical company. Please do the same??? :)

So, it has to be illegal before it's unethical, yeah?

Interestingly, the UK government banned fur farming on the grounds that it's cruel. Just a bloody shame that we still import it.

Crazy eh, to click on the ad and use the site! What WAS I thinking! Madness!

don't click on it, then. stop trying to tell MNHQ how to run their business. they do a bloody good job of setting a line imo and this is too much. if it was in the actual ad you would maybe, MAYBE have a point (although i like astrakan, personally, not that i own any) but to go searching for something to be offended at is just absolutely ludicrous.

Aitch it was me who found fur on the site and actually I didn't search for it. It was highlighted already.

So, in your world we judge a company purely on its ad, and the ad content alone; and we should never ever give feedback to any other organisation. You're a gem!

Oh, ignore Aitch.

I completely agree. Please Mums Net remove these ads and please, please don't advertise any other companies which sell real fur.

I'd never heard of astrakan before, but have had a look online and am truly sickened.

As someone else said, this isn't the sort of thing that people should want to dress their children in.

Oh, I also don't like the little girls made-up to look like teenagers. Very odd.

no, you judge a company how you want to, that's absolutely your business. where you cross the line imo is in insisting that MNHQ share your view. anyway, i imagine you aren't in luck because they have already taken the line that they will not advertise nestle but will advertise companies that nestle own (because they own bloody everyone) as their products are differentiated. what a gem they must be.

heheheheh... you had never even heard of astrakan, what a relief that you came on here and got the opportunity to take offence at it!

I've heard of the way animals are trapped and killed for 'fashionable' fur trim Aitch.

Are you so wise that you never learn anything new then?

i'm a bit confused how do they make astrakan?

to defend bloodshed is insanity.

gawd. you people must be exhausted, searching websites for new things to be offended by, really you must.

pastaplease as you say, ignore Aitch.

nikkershaw astrakhan is the fur from lambs (around 4 million each year) killed as newborns or while still in the womb. Because their curly fur begins to unwind and straighten within three days of birth, many lambs are slaughtered when they are only 1 or 2 days old. In order to get a hide, the mother ewe's throat is cut and her abdomen opened to remove the developing lamb. A ewe typically gives birth to three lambs before being slaughtered along with her fourth lamb, about 15 to 30 days before he or she is due to be born.

Well worth it for a children's coat.

off topic, Booja are you named after the truffles?

I am indeed, katerum. The name 'BoojaBooja' was already taken!

I think the market for fur is tiny.

Many people who are not vegetarian strongly object to fur, as they also object to battery hens, veal calves in crates, that horrible goose live pate in France the name of which escapes me at the moment.

It can't be that much of a surprise that some Mumsnetters would rather fur wasn't advertised on Mumsnet?

Mnhq are going from strength to strength. I can't believe they need the advertising revenue from any particular company.

does seem a bit weird as the site also sells calvin klein crop tops for 6 year olds too.

I would think that most mumsnetters would prefer an outright ban on fur.

Nice to meet you Booja, i feel like im among friends

(gives knowing look)

I thought the clothes looked sweet - very bonpoint'esque.

Didn't see any fur.

But then I'm more offended by clothes made by children in sweatshops.

Agree with aitch really.

what does an outright ban on fur mean?

Nice to meet you too, Katerum :)

to who?

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Please let us know what Mums Net says in response to your emails, commonsense.

Fingers crossed they realise that the majority of people don't want to see companies selling this hideous astrakan on Mums Net!

the majority of people on here have gathered that it's Mumsnet, for starters. i can tell that because i use the site a lot. how have you gathered your evidence of a majority? it's not like this thread set the heather on fire...

No, but your posts keep bumping it up, Aitch. I think you're passionately anti-animal abuse really.

oh well, i'll leave all three of you to your conversation. will be interested to see the response you get from mn.