Trapping, while legal in many parts of the country, is a vulgar activity. The traps cause unbelievable suffering, including ripped flesh, broken bones, crushed pelvises, swelling and blood loss. The most insidious traps are the steel-jawed leghold traps.

The justification for trapping animals is to skin them, process the skin and then make them into coats and stoles for some people to wear when they go out on Saturday night. All of the fur coats in the world are not worth the bone wrenching screams of a single animal caught in these mindless traps.

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