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infant, he had been intentionally infected with HIV virus SF2. At the age of four he had been infected with another HIV strain, LAV-1. A month short of five, he was infected with yet a third strain, NDK. Throughout the Iran-Contra hearings, almost to the brink of the Gulf War, he sat in the small windowless, cinder-block infectious Disease Building. Then he was moved a short distance to a large, windowless, gray concrete box, one of eleven bleak steel-and-concrete cells 9 feet by 11 feet by 8.5 feet. Throughout the war and Bill Clinton's campaign for a second term as president, he languished in his cell. This was the chimpanzee, Infectious Disease Building. It stood in the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center near grassy, tree-lined Emory University, minutes from the bustle of downtown Atlanta, Georgia." (Wise 2001, p.7)

Conclusion

The shocking realisation towards animal rights is linked greatly with fur in the Fashion industry. If animals were only used for their fur after a natural death, it is expected that there would be a lot less speculation and issues raised. Although a lot of fur farms do produce fur in the correct, kinder way, it is a sad fact that the majority probably do not. Fur is indeed percieved a glamorous, luxury item to have, but ask yourself one questionWould you die for your fur coat?

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