Gloves made of cat fur sold at Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market
by Australian Associated Press from on (#5ZEE0)
Animal activists who sent unlabelled gloves to forensic lab say buyers trying to make ethical choices are being misled
A pair of unlabelled fur gloves being sold for $20 at a stall in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market have been found to contain domestic cat fur, activists say.
The discovery was made during a joint investigation by the Collective Fashion Justice group and the Animal Justice party, who sent the gloves for testing at a forensic lab in the United States.
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