Around this time of year, everyone is out and about buying expensive gifts and receiving lots of requests for donations to their favourite charities. What if you donated money to help stop the unnecessary slaughter of animals for fashion, only to find out that the faux fur jacket you bought for your mom is actually made of real fur?

Well, if you’ve bought “faux” fur items from Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus, Lord & Taylor, Dillard’s, Saks Fifth Avenue or Yoox.com, you might just have some dead animal parts in your closet you don’t know about.

It seems that many of the major luxury brands are sourcing their materials and production from China, one of the countries where fur manufacturers still skin animals alive, and mislabel the products.

Quote from The Humane Society Website Article:

“Holiday Shoppers Beware: Six Major Retailers Selling Real Fur as Faux

Last winter, of 25 fur-trimmed jackets tested by The HSUS, every single one was falsely advertised, falsely labeled, unlabeled or had a combination of these problems. Twenty were identified by laboratory testing as raccoon dog and three as domestic dog.”