On September 2012, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) bought clothing from the New York department store Century 21.
In their laboratory tests, HSUS revealed that 70% of the clothing they tested was made from raccoon dog, but had proclaimed to be faux fur, or the fur of other animals and it was found out that a child’s unlabeled sweatshirt was trimmed with rabbit fur.
“Clothing is constantly mislabeled by fashion brands,” said Pierre Grzybowski, research and enforcement manager of the fur-free campaign for The HSUS. “Animal fur is widely misrepresented both in advertising and labelling throughout the retail industry, and raccoon dog is probably the most misrepresented species.”
The raccoon dog is a native breed of East Asia, raccoon-like in appearance but a member of the canid family, and one that animal rights organisations allege is brutally mistreated in China.
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