Anti-Fur Activists Get Naked And Bloody In Barcelona

Anti-fur group Anima Naturalis staged their annual “pile of naked people” demonstration this past Sunday in Barcelona.

This year, however, they decided to add a little fake blood to the mix, so as to look more like skinned animals. Because regular mass public nudity just isn’t cutting it, these days.

The crowd of nearly 100 activists walked to the Plaza del Rey in Barcelona before disrobing and painting their bodies with artificial blood. One woman held a sign with the slogan “How many lives just for a coat?”

Anima Naturalis, an ally of PETA, has become famous for staging these yearly displays of mass-nudity to protest the skinning industry. Reports released by the group detail the horrific treatment of animals raised for the industry, like the use of electrocution as a slaughter technique - a popular choice because it leaves the fur undamaged.

Anima Naturalis also lists facts about the literal number of animal skins needed for a coat and, forget the nudity and blood, here’s the part that got us on board: It takes between 120 and 300 chinchillas to make a coat.

So one of these:

Takes 300 of these:

As if you didn’t already have enough reasons to dislike 50 Cent.

Protestan desnudos en Barcelona contra uso de pieles [El Universal]

Un centenar de personas se desnudaron en Barcelona contra la industria peletera [Anima Naturalis]