(Dagbladet): The Felix company in Lillehammer will now refuse entry to guests wearing a Canada Goose brand jacket.
– Canada Goose jackets are, to date, perhaps the most used garment in the “clothing created by suffering” category. In many ways it has become a symbol of animal abuse, explains Eirik Norheim at Felix to Gubrandsdølen Dagningen.
In a press release on Facebook, he refers to information from the animal protection organization NOAH, which claims that the jackets contain fur from coyotes caught in traps using foot scissors, causing suffering. useless. And that they are filled with goose down from industrial geese, which are also used for the production of goose meat and liver.
– We are primarily a nightclub, but many in the Felix community are involved in animal protection work, and for us it is a symbolic act, he told the newspaper, adding that he There is also irony about the dress code of other clubs.
The pub will also refuse entry to people wearing fur, but few guests will, he says.
In Denmark, the country’s largest sports chain, Sportmaster, recently decided to stop selling “Canada Goose” jackets. The reason given by the chain is that Canada Goose could not guarantee that the fur in the jackets does not come from animals that suffer needlessly.
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