About 50 animal rights activists staged a naked protest on Sunday at a square in Spain's northeastern city of Barcelona to denounce the torture and slaying of animals to make fur coats. Representing the number of animals that it takes to make a fur coat, the men and women, covered in red paint that resembled blood, lay down and curled up on top of one another at Sant Jaume in the historic centre of the city.
Millions of foxes, minks, otters, beavers, lynxes and other species are raised in captivity in small cages or captured and then killed in brutal ways such as drowning or electrocution to make fur coats, according to the group.