Last year I worked as a copywriter for a shopping site and often described coats as having “chic faux fur accents” (I tend to over use the word chic when I copyright. It’s a go-to fancy word for me) I often wondered what this mysterious “faux fur” was made of, well it turns out that for many of the products the fur wasn’t faux at all, it was the manufacturers that were “faux”. The Humane Society filed a lawsuit against Andrew Marc, Dillard’s, Lord & Taylor, Macy’s, Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue for false advertising and mislabeling of fur garments.Apparently the ‘faux fur’ used in their products is actually raccoon dog fur from China. The Humane Society claims that 70 percent of the garments sold by the named compnaies actually contained fur from the raccoon dog. Yikes!

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