Fur Is Evil

These two screenshots are from today. The first image shows a sponsored link on Google’s Chinese-language home page for Dog Skin. Clicking on the link takes one to a page with literally hundreds of thousands of units of dog skin for sale. The second image is the seller-provided photo of piles of dog skin on [...]

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This fox paid the ultimate price to satisfy the greed of companies like Google, which uses its technology and brand to advertise this Earthling’s skin. This fox is from china, where it is perfectly normal and legal to skin animals alive. Related Articles: Entire Fox Skin for Sale via Google’s Chinese home page Weasel Fur [...]

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A search for “fur” today turned up, per usual, an ad in the Google sidebar for fur from dog/cat-skin selling platform Alibaba, and today lots of the product just a single click away from Google’s home page was for weasel fur. Do you think these animals were skinned alive or dead? In a country, China, [...]

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Dear Squirrels of the World: You are in great danger. There are people who want your skin. They want to use your skin to create “luxurious” rugs, like the one here, made from skins of hundreds of Russian squirrels, and advertised via powerful online technology and advertising platforms created and owned by a company called [...]

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Dear Googlers, As a fan of Google, the intention of this site is to serve both as a protest and an archive of evidence of the role Google plays in a trade few would normally associate with Google. With very few exceptions (all clearly noted), all the images of animals at FurIsEvil.org were found on [...]

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Dozens of brains for a coat! Isn’t this a tremendous waste of life and sentience?

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This is a cat skin rug for sale by a China-based cat skin supplier. This product, featured on Alibaba.com, was a single click away from Google’s home page, via a contextual ad for “cat skin.” The quantities of this kind of cat fur is clearly increasing in China, as more and more online shops offer [...]

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Thanks to the advertisements on Google’s home page, I’m finding a lot more suppliers of products made from cat skin. This is made of real cat skin (often combined with the skin and fur of other animals, usually mink or fox.) This is not faux cat skin. Related Articles: Another Day, Another Dog Skin Dollar [...]

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In regards to free speech and human rights, Google did a great thing today. It announced that it will no longer actively participate with the Chinese Communist Party in censoring online content on Google.cn. On behalf of many friends who work and live in China, thank you for at least taking steps to recognize the [...]

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The COO of the HSUS, Michael Markarian, has a blog on the Huffington Post. And the blog is peddling fur. Let me rephrase: A Blog by the COO of the Humane Society of the United States is selling fur. There is no excuse for this. There is no excuse for continued inaction about this issue. [...]

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May 9, 2009. A search on Google.com for “dog skin” (in Chinese)  yields a sponsored AdWords text ad for “dog skin”, or “dog fur” (the two words are the same in Chinese). In the poster above, you can see the search result with the AdWords ad. Clicking on the advertisement takes you to Alibaba.com’s “dog [...]

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Right now, the advertising of skins of dogs and cats have and continue to profit Google. These dog and cat skins come almost exclusively from a country, China, where it is perfectly legal and common to skin animals alive for their fur. I cannot believe that the vast majority of Google’s employees, managers and stockholders [...]

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Google is a smart company which has demonstrated the ability in the past to say, “Oops, we made a mistake.” Right now, Google is making a huge mistake by not acting immediately to stop profiting from a form of animal exploitation that – makes most people sick. – encourages flaying animals alive. – consumes not [...]

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To see examples of three leopard cats whose skin will NEVER be available for sale on Google’s ad network, check out the Shambala Preserve in Acton, California On Shambala’s gallery page, you can see images of Dai Lei, Ping Ohn and To-Be — they are Asian leopard cats, essentially the same animal whose skin is [...]

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Here are photos of fur plates made from leopard cats, found on the home page of a fur marketer which advertises fur on Google’s search pages and ad network. (Note: The URL in the photo is NOT a Google AdWords client, but their skin trade products are being promoted via Google’s advertising platform which is [...]

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This video capture shows sponsored links on Google.com’s home search page for a client of Google which has been openly selling dog skin. This dog skin-selling Google client has been a client of Google’s since at least Nov, 2008 (when this video capture was first made) and was a Google as recently as Jan, 2009. [...]

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We are living in the year 2009, well into the mighty 21st century. Google, thanks to the development of many technologies which have the potential to liberate humanity from the barbarisms of our past and present, is now one of the most technologically powerful companies on the planet. And, yet, Google is making money as [...]

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Some good news to report: PeTA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has started a campaign to ask Google to stop advertising fur. Obviously, PeTA has far more resources and a bigger audience than we do, so we hope and pray that PeTA’s new campaign can reach the hearts and minds of the people [...]

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The following graphic is Google’s Earth Day logo. As you can see, there are no fur farms in the graphic. There are no rabbits in cages or on hooks in slaughterhouses, half-conscious, waiting to be skinned alive. That would have been  in poor taste, and decidely NOT in the spirit of Earth Day. But there [...]

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OPEN LETTER TO ANIMAL RIGHTS ZONE: Why are you hosting fur ads on your site? Sincerely, Duke The following screen shot was taken on Earth Day (in China), just a few minutes ago: Related Articles: Entire Fox Skin for Sale via Google’s Chinese home page Weasel Fur advertised via Google’s Chinese Home Page Squirrels of [...]

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