It took a hot minute for PETA to go after Brooke Shields for her weirdly worded endorsement of the fur industry. Brooke visited a fur studio in Copenhagen this spring, during which time she made her own fur coat and then endorsed a statement written by a non-native English speaker about how awesome fur was and how it was every little girl’s dream. She supposedly said “I will wear the fur garment when I follow my children to school, when I drink coffee and when I sleep,” and that “I will advocate that both my generation and the younger generation can wear fur.” Yes, you and your daughters can wear fur, if you want to look like cruel bitches who don’t care about the plight of animals.
PETA was of course all over that, and went after Brooke, citing her fading career. This was just what Tom Cruise did when he disagreed with her confession to using antidepressants, and it doesn’t add to PETA’s case:
The animal-rights organization is lashing out at Shields for visiting Kopenhagen Fur’s workshop back in March and making comments such as “I will advocate that both my generation and the younger generation can wear fur” and “I will wear the fur garment when I follow my children to school, when I drink coffee and when I sleep.”
Not surprisingly, a post on PETA’s website reads: “When I was a little girl, I dreamed about growing up to be a rock star. Or maybe a veterinarian. Or a roller derby queen. I didn’t dream about anally electrocuting animals on fur farms, but apparently Brooke Shields did.”
But the criticism doesn’t stop there, with a few potshots at Shields’ livelihood thrown in for good measure.
“We understand that when some actors’ careers begin to fade, they’ll do just about anything to stay in the limelight, including appearing in eyelash-growing commercials and starring in short-lived TV shows,” continues the post. “But Brooke, did you really want the world to remember you as a ‘fur pimp’ who stares agog at rows of animal skins?”
[From E! Online]
I don’t know who I find more annoying, PETA or Brooke Shields. I actually liked Brooke before this whole debacle, so I would say that she’ll still slightly ahead and that it will ultimately depend on how she handles the fallout. Is she going to issue a statement clarifying her endorsement, or stay silent for fear of jeopardizing whatever she got paid for this? This incident speaks to both Brooke’s poor judgment and the sad fact that she’ll do just about any commercial. Jezebel ran a brief piece last summer “Why is Brooke Shields in every commercial?” in which they noted that she is a spokesperson for “Tupperware, Coppertone, Latisse, World Gold Council, Colgate, milk, Fertility Lifelines, and more.” I found a couple that Jezebel missed – Volkswagon and Godiva chocolate. What’s next for Brooke? Can she sink any lower than endorsing fur? Is her career as a celebrity spokesperson going to be jeopardized by an association with a fur company? We can only hope she becomes a little less ubiquitous.
Brooke Shields is shown on 5/24/10, 5/23/10, 5/3/10, and 4/25/10. Credit: WENN.com
What annoys me about this entire thing, fur aside (but the fur issue does annoy me) is why she feels she needs the money when she doesn’t need it. If I were a celebrity, I wouldn’t be stupid enough to endorse fur for the PETA factor alone. Okay, freedom of speech and so on, but these images of Brooke aren’t just horrible, but they’re creepy if not downright crazy and they’re blatantly commercial.
Like I always say, this new fur PR thing – especially that which can be seen in magazine adverts for ‘Origin Assured’ fur, is akin to tobacco advertising. Fur is the new tobacco and I can’t stand celebrities who sell things to kids. What Brooke is doing is wrong and she needs to STFU now.
I can’t believe she’s endorsing fur – it really makes her look like she’ll endorse anything.
ugh, everyone can do what they wanna do, if she likes fur..then she likes fur and thats her thing.peta has good points but its not their business..in my opinion
Personally I think she’s an outright IDIOT for this- this is one of those issues that people get crazy over! Hollywood is going to have a problem with it, and while I’m all for the “live and let live” philosophy, sometimes you shut your mouth if you have kids and live in crazyland L.A.. Wearing fur is a bigger crime than voting GOP!
Hands down PETA is more annoying. PETA should get togeter with Heidi NotPratt-Montag and make a reality show called = watch and die a slow death from sheer wretchedness… or something equally as catchy.
P.S. Sorry for typos I do this on the DL from work! 🙂
I have to admit she looks alarming in that photo where she is looking at the fur. Almost troll-like.
Celebitchy, was it you lusting after a Hermes bag (if it wasn’t you, please feel free to correct me)? How is it any different to kill cows for leather than to kill minks for fur?
PETA has become an annoyance to such a degree that it make sensible people want to go out and torture small furry animals.
@Crash – it was Kaiser lusting after a Hermes bag but I would love one too. I do use and wear leather. From what I understand, the cows are killed somewhat more humanely in that they’re not skinned alive. However the treatment of animals in all factory farming conditions is utterly horrendous from what I know. There was a recent case where baby calves were being abused that was caught on tape. I do eat meat, although not every day and usually not red meat. I know it seems like splitting hairs on this issue but the fur industry treats animals with even more disregard than the meat industry. (I have not watched the videos of it, though.) Fur has become a symbol of the cruel, inhumane conditions under which its made and I think that’s what people are responding to here.
All so predictable. Someone give Brooke another acting job so she backs away from the endorsements!
Brooke will endorse anything and when did she turn into a man?
@Celebitchy: It’s a myth that fur animals are skinned alive. What possible reason would there be to do so? The animal would struggle mightily at the very least, making the skinners job very difficult.
Like I said in a previous post – I can believe there may have been instances where an animal was only stunned instead of killed. That would be awful, but I can’t believe it happens often. Grim thought it sounds, dead bodies do move and even blink for some time after death due to random nerve firings, but the animal is dead. PETA is not above staging the horrific suffering and death of an animal to further their agenda.
I have been a vegetarian for 22 years. I did not buy leather for the first 15 years, but after having surgery on both feet (something i think was aggravated by all the cheap ‘pleather’ shoes i bought)I reconsidered. A friend of mine who grew up on a farm said (after I told her that I did not buy leather) – “the skin is all waste, the animal was killed for it’s meat”. After that, I reconsidered for a couple reasons. One- b/c I needed shoes that were not going to ruin my feet and Two- because “pleather” is not biodegradable. Those purses and shoes will be on the planet forever, not so with the leather. So, I have given in and do buy leather, but seriously, I wear it until it is in pieces. I buy a pair of leather shoes maybe every 2 or 3 years and do not buy exotic leather, etc when it is obvious that it is clear that the skin itself was the primary reason for the kill.
It sucks when I say I’m vegetarian and immediately the person I’m talking to looks down at my shoes. I can see it on their face that voice that opinion, but at the end of the day, I feel good about my choices. I think anything people should do whatever they can to prevent suffering of others, particularly helpless and frightened animals that are VICIOUSLY and BRUTALLY killed for their hide.
It is not a myth that some animals are skinned alive. One widely practiced method is to first kill the animal by running current to the mouth and anus of the animal simultaneously. It is fairly quick, but undoubtedly horribly painful. Sometimes the animals are only stunned, though they appear dead, and are skinned alive. Again, horrible.
People are at the top of the food chain, and that’s great. Since we occupy this great position, it seems only fair that we show a smidge of humanity now and then. At a minimum, we should not torture animals to death so that we can enjoy luxury items.
I find PETA way more annoying.
peta need to look at their own track record of abusing animals and turning the other cheek when celebrities who pose in their campaigns wear fur themselves. no i’m not one for fur coats but peta blasting brooks for wanting a fur coat is like roman polanski moaning about r.kelly being a paedophile-aka pot calling kettle.
Something just doesn’t ring true about this whole story. I’m reserving judgement until more comes out.
crash, I agree with you on a lot of your posts, but animals being skinned alive is no “myth”.
they are, on some fur farms, beaten or slammed against the ground in order to subdue them, and then skinned alive.
some do slaughter the animals somewhat humanely, but you can’t ever be sure that the fur you wear came ONLY from humane kills.
this is just one account.
“I watched horrified as I saw clearly distressed animals in cramped cages, chasing their tails psychotically in never-ending circles.
I covered my eyes as the camera cut to one fox sitting and trembling in its cage – its right leg stripped of its flesh and gnawed to the bone by the other crazed creatures around it.
As Glover explained, the fox furs harvested from these creatures are worth around only £30, so the farmers do not waste money on calling out vets, even when the foxes are in such obvious distress.
It was hard to believe that this footage was shot in the U.S., which argues that its industry is very well regulated, but far worse was to come in footage from China, which supplies half of all the world’s fur.
This was also shot at a fox farm and I watched horrified as these animals were clubbed, stamped on, or dashed against the ground to subdue them.
Then, through my tears, I saw these poor creatures being literally skinned alive.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1043067/Fur-goodness-sake-Skinned-alive-catwalk.html
This is from a woman who did wear fur but her opinion was changed by seeing the video. and she’s not the only one. I believe Beyonce, among others, have had their views changed after seeing what the animals go through.
I wouldn’t have ever worn fur, but my view on people who did was kind of “meh”, until I saw one of the videos this woman refers to. it’s stomach turning, for sure.
The PETA rep comes off like some annoying snarky bitch. If that was the organization’s aim, then they nailed it. It doesn’t elicit much sympathy though…at least not from me. If they want to put Brooke Sheilds on blast for wearing fur (as is their strategy with celebrities), then that’s their prerogative. But the childish digs about her career and endorsements? Gross.
She’s a femal actor who is aging in an industry that doesn’t have many opportunities for women over 40. If this is how she has to take care of her family, give her a break. We’re not all curing cancer in our cubicles. Get. A. Grip.
As the significant numbers of non-dead pleather-wearing vegans proves, humans can live quite happily without any animal products, so to me there’s no difference between a juicy steak – which are eaten for pleasure, rather than any nutritional necessity – and a fur coat, which is worn for pleasure.
In all manufacture of animal products, there’s good practice and bad practice and I think it’s this that makes the difference rather than the product itself, i.e. I’d rather be a humanely-farmed mink than a battery chicken, and that’s what organisations like PETA should concentrate on. Or they could just stop putting down 90% of their rescue dogs and maybe they’d have a leg to stand on when criticising others!
Can you prove that Sunspot? There are laws about this despite what PETA wants people to think. They are a total joke and only use personal attacks to further their ’cause’, which makes them irrelevant and sometimes despicable. I don’t see how they are still a functioning organization after the government documents came out that proved they are the #1 killer of adoptable domesticated animals in the country.
well said Miranda.
PETA is annoying because you people give them ears.
Which doesn´t make the whole animal fur industry less revolting.
I do eat meat and I do wear leather(shoes&bags), but it´s not like I am busting the demand eating 20kg of ribs and buying 20 pairs of shoes and handbags a year.
I think it is all about moderation, we live on over populated planet and overconsumism is what is really “KILLING IT”.
If you think for any reason you are entitled to have a fur coat or whatever, it´s one thing, now buying a shitload of it just to induldge your twisted mind, that is sickening!!!!!!!!
I know this is bad timing, but I’m finding Brooke Shields to be absolutely more and more gorgeous the older I get. Perhaps I was way too jealous to even allow myself to admit her beauty when I was younger . . . I don’t know. But I could stare at her all day now. And I loved her personality when I saw her talk about her life on her “E – True Hollywoood Story” (or some similar show).
Yes, some animals are skinned alive. Yes, it is disgraceful. Even some “fake” furs contain amounts of real fur, and since they’re generally not labelled there’s no way to tell. They’re attempting to pass legislation in the US forcing manufacturers to label furs if they contain any amount of real fur. If I put on a real fur, I think I’d be physically ill. I sure as hell wouldn’t walk around wearing another person’s skin, and to me that’s the same thing.
PETA needs to change their tactics; they’re alienating people and causing otherwise caring human beings to be indifferent to animal suffering.
Do you think people in the fur industry and workers on unregulated furm farms in China are educated or experts in animal physiology and can tell if an animal is in shock/pain? Do you think they care? In this day in age no one has to wear fur.
To clarify my above statement, no one has to wear fur – from the fur industry.
Well,well,well. Brooke Shields doing something stupid. What a surprise. Not to me it isn’t.
Don’t let the Princeton diploma fool you. That woman is an idiot.
Read her book. I thought it was howlingly funny at times because, well, she’s dumb and it shows. I posted about this before and people got really offended because they thought I was taking her to task about her post partum depression. It had nothing to do with that.
Now she’s proven me right again.
gah! i am so sick of this woman endorsing every product under the sun lately. here’s an ad campaign for brooke: using the eyelash goo she endorses, wearing the fur coat she endorses and brushing her teeth with the toothpaste she endorses. did i miss anything?
I have to side with PETA on this one and its very rare I do. I believe in their cause but not necessarily their tactics but I agree with them 100% on this one.
How anyone can stoop this low for an ad or a coat is beyond me.
whoever said that the skinning them alive is a myth is WRONG! Do your research first, you’ll find more disturbing videos than just the ones that do in fact show them being skinned alive.
I am willing to bet that Brooke thought endorsing fur across the ocean in Europe wouldn’t get attention here. Dumb.
Have you seen videos of Korean dog markets, dragging the dog on the ground and electrocuting it with electric prod, that poor dog, I never heard a dog scream like that, so it must be cruel. Now multiply that sound by thousands, and you get a fur farm.
There is also video on YouTube of Koreans boiling a large dog alive, as it tries repeatedly to jump out of the a giant boiling pot, and hanging dogs to the ceiling on a rope so that they can slowly choke to death.
Boycott Korea and China, where they hate dogs and cats and torture them on a daily basis in unspeakable ways.
Most coats with fur trim come from evil China and is cat or dog fur.
@kaboom
if someone feels like torturing animals because of peta’ way of promoting their cases, so that person is not sensible at all.
no person with a good heart would ever torture a living thing.
its a very lame excuse…
@zen
i could not agree more with you!
Killing animals is never pretty (neither is killing people) and is clearly an emotionally charged issue.
As I have said before, I absolutely disagree with inhumane killing. But skinning animals alive makes no sense whatsoever. The animal would be struggling, blood would be staining the fur, etc. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a fur off all in one piece from a perfectly still dead animal? And if blood gets on a fur it is RUINED (why do you think PETA throws blood on furs?), thus totally negating the $$$ spend breeding and raising the animal, to say nothing of lost profits. IT MAKES NO SENSE TO SKIN FUR ANIMALS ALIVE.
PETA has been exposed as an organization that is not above hiring people to torture and kill animals just so that they can make these horrific videos.
And videos make very poor ‘proof’ of anything. They only let you see what the director wants you to see. Hollywood should be proof enough of that concept for anyone.
good point crash, i never thought of that before-even though i hate peta and know how they treat animals it didnt even occur to me they would do that for their videos but it makes sense. they are just famewhores after all.
crash, the animals are subdued before they’re skinned…ALIVE. yes, alive. it’s been documented over and over. after being beaten, slammed on the ground, kicked or stomped, they wouldn’t be struggling, at least for very long.
and it’s paint that PETA throws on fur coats. not blood. (though, there are reports that they’ve never actually done this, that it’s just an urban legend…either way, that is a crime that I do not condone.)
blood does come off of fur. do you see wild animals walking around with blood on their puss 24/7? no, it eventually washes away from the area around their mouths. When a carnivore (like a lion/tiger/fox) feeds, RIGHT after they feed, their face is covered with blood, but you don’t see them like that forever.
you don’t have to be aligned with PETA (which I am most DEFINITELY NOT!) to see the horrible abuses committed in the fur industry.
I’m not going to judge you ’cause that ain’t my place, but please, don’t turn a blind eye to what has been documented, not just by PETA, time after time.
if you can stomach it, a simple google search will bring up lots of videos that show what I mean.
since PETA is probably not going to be considered a valid source, try this one.
http://www.infektia.net/animal-cruelty-skinned-alive/
but be warned, this video is not for the faint of heart.
@crash2GO2: I think Peta may be extreme but be careful when making allegations like
“PETA has been exposed as an organization that is not above hiring people to torture and kill animals just so that they can make these horrific videos”.
I highly doubt that’s true and it makes an otherwise valid argument on your part sound like, oh, extremism?
At least peta is willing to put themselves in the line of fire for a good cause… what has this bitch done lately? HAG!
Huh – I like the fact that she came over to Europe to do this nonsense. SHE won’t have to live with the environmental consequences of the breeding of mink in particular. 😡
I have said this (here) plenty of times, but mink is not native to Europe, therefore do not have the same number of natural predators as they do in North America. That means when they escape or are released from farms they wreak absolute havoc on local wildlife along rivers and wetlands and some farms, especially chickens. Horrid creatures really.
Now, that’s not to say that the manufacture of leather and pleather don’t also have their own serious environmental impacts, but the use of water filtering systems can help reduce this enormously.
Unless you live up around the Arctic Circle, there is no justification or need for fur and it can have serious environmental consequences.
@endoplasmic ridiculum: Me? Extremist? Far from it. Some reading on animal snuff films for the furthering of agendas:
“Animal rights organizations have had a long history with using animal snuff films to generate public debate, awareness and, of course, funds. Unfortunately, some of these films have come at great expense to the animals involved. Instead of a quick death, a more torturous end is staged and the animal is forced to suffer excruciating pain – all for our viewing (dis)pleasure.
Here’s an excerpt taken from the Fur Commission USA website which is a lobby group for American mink farmers (so, yes, there may be spin on this but I haven’t found anything to contradict the information provided):
1964: Film of a seal being skinned alive is used by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to vilify Canadian sealers, and is screened on CBC television. Following a public outcry and investigation, the man in the film, Gus Poirier of Prince Edward Island, signs an affidavit declaring that he was “employed by a group of photographers … to skin a large seal for the film. I solemnly swear before witnesses that I was asked to torment the said seal and not to use a [club], but just to use a knife to carry out this operation, where in normal practice a [club] is used to first kill the seals before skinning them.” A Federal Standing Committee castigated CBC “for not enquiring into its accuracy before screening,” but the damage had been done.
Here’s another one:
Mid-1990s: In 1996, video footage of a brutal dolphin slaughter is used in a campaign to raise money and generate public support for embargoes against Venezuela’s two exports, oil and tunafish. As they market the video, various groups claim the film “proves” that 40,000 dolphins are killed annually in a country where dolphin kills are illegal. No proof exists except the film. When the uncut film footage is finally discovered, it becomes obvious that the film was staged. The filmmaking crew had represented themselves to the fishermen involved as scientists from the local university, saying they needed to kill a dolphin for research and that they would take total responsibility. “Act natural!” yells the cameraman to the fishermen. The filmmakers supply the knife used to inhumanely butcher the animal while they direct the action. “More blood! Get me more blood!” yells the cameraman.
The Venezuelan government charged the filmmakers with fraud and treason (since the film was part of an orchestrated attack on key Venezuelan exports), but the filmmakers fled the country. They have never been caught to face the charges.
And here’s one that readers in Toronto might remember:
2001: Jesse Power, a vegan student at the Ontario College of Art and Design, enlists two other young men to film the brutal torture and killing of a house cat. Acts committed on video include hanging the cat by a noose, then cutting its throat while stabbing it, and finally slitting its chest open. At trial, Power’s lawyer argues that the project was conceived as an “artistic protest” against meat-eating.
The Fur Commission site lists more than a dozen other staged animal snuff movies created and/or used by animal rights organizations including Greenpeace, IFAW, HSUS and, of course PETA. It also talks about the dog skinning video.
The implication from the video is that live skinning is standard operating procedure for the dog fur trade in China. However, outside of entertaining sadistic psychopaths who fester in every society, skinning any animal live for its fur doesn’t make any sense because it’s inefficient.”
http://onebarkatatime.blogspot.com/2009/02/peta-vs-china.html
Animal snuff films. That was the term that had escaped my mind. I’m surprised no one else here has heard of them. 🙁
Yeah I would be a little leery of rumors that get out of control. I’ve found that quite often, when you’re “in the know” some of the stuff that makes it to the news is just horrendounsly wrong. For instance, I work closely with the particle accerators in switzerland. There was some rumor of black holes that sort of got blown out of proportion. Now, if you’re part of the “inner circle” you know this is a laughable concept (like we’d literally make jokes about it). In any case, I find rumors about things like scientology and peta are wildly overblown. I’ve read their website, it’s not quite as extreme as people make it out to be. Things are just misinterpreted and people who want to make money blow things out of proportion for sensationalization. Like the whole mini black holes at the LHC… that was mostly put out to generate interest in the project, which it did. So yeah, I’d take things that accuse organizations of extreme acts which if true would be highly illegal and subject to penalization with a LARGE grain of salt….
either way, this bitch is a nutjob and should be boycotted…
Gawd, this topic is SO depressing. The people on here describing all the animal torture are EQUALLY as annoying as PETA. I’m glad PETA exists in the world though, but I just don’t want to have anything to do with them.
I am totally opposed to fur wearing and the fur industry in general. Brooke Shields is an idiot for getting involved in this. Extremely poor judgment on her part. Fur wearing should have been passe a LONNNNNG time ago.
If you can eat ’em, you can wear ’em.
I don’t know if this makes anyone feel better but the company she visited, Kopenhagen Fur, “assures that the fur has been produced in countries where fur farming is regulated.” And, as far as I could find, part of this regulation is requiring that animals be euthanized (as your pet might be at the vet).
how is it annoying to discuss the realities of the fur trade? Or do you just plan to live your life with your eyes and ears closed to everything that seems unpleasant to you? GOOD LORD!!!!!!
@ Tia C –
Shame you think it’s “annoying”.
No- it’s not pleasant, but I think it’s really important for people to know what really happens to the animals.
Awareness is the only way to help fix the problem.. I don’t think you’d like to see a pet you loved skinned alive.
Even if you don’t like PETA, they are not representative of all animal welfare groups.
Fur is especially despised because of the callous disregard of life. With cows leather it is a byproduct of the meat industry and they are reducing waste. Full Stop. If you don’t get why people see the two differently after this then you are being willfully ignorant.
It is awful that some people see fit to hurt animals to further an agenda, but this does NOT mean that genuine cruelties have not been committed. When an animal is stunned it may pass out and appear dead and may or may not regain consciousness. By the time it does, it may be too far gone to move but that does not mean it feels no pain response. Also, to completely ignore the methodology used to kill the animals is not ok.
Who’s completely ignoring the methodologies? An electrical current stops the heart immediately. Very little to no pain involved as far as current research knows. Even needle euthenasia can hurt – the needle stick, the liquid going in burns – I could go on, but don’t wish to unduly upset. Lots of times vets struggle to find veins and end up having to do cardiac puncture in very old animals. Do you think they do that in front of the owners? No. I worked in an animal hospital and euthanized by fair share. Some animals struggle mightily and cry as the solution goes in the vein. It can cause distress.
We are so removed from death in our society that it’s very easy to forget the struggle of death, no matter how good your intentions are in bringing it on. So don’t let organizations like PETA play your ignorance like a violin.
And please fully detail to me the difference ‘reducing waste’ makes in the suffering the cow feels when it is killed. For while captive bolt is certainly humane, even it can go wrong.
Has she had botox on her forehead and cheeks? They have no wrinkles, and then BAM, attack of the crows feet!
Re: skinning of animals alive.
How many of you have pets? Anyone have a cat? What happens when your cat gets stressed out? SHE SHEDS LIKE CRAZY. We’re talking molting shedding, right?
When an animal is stressed, one of the ways they show it is through expulsion of organic waste. That includes urine, feces, food, and yes, hair.
It is why, when an animal is to be skinned for fur, it is skinned AFTER it has been killed. And furthermore, the animal is killed quickly. A painful death induces stress, which appears most immediately in the follicular area, thereby ruining the pelt. No one is going to pay thousands of dollars on a pelt that’s shedding.
The videos one sees of animals being skinned alive usually contain dogs and cats, whose fur isn’t attached to the pelt via their follicles, but rather through the addition of adhesive.
I understand why people hate the fur industry. I also understand why people hate the slaughter industry. I can accept both arguments when made in a logical and rationally sound manner.
What I can’t understand and will not tolerate is the lying. And this isn’t accidental re-telling either. This comes from a place of pure ignorance and disregard to facts. If you’re going to say you hate fur, do so because you don’t like the idea of rodents being killed for their skin. Don’t say it’s because those rodents are being skinned alive when they aren’t.
And yes, I come from a family who raised chinchillas. Their fur is one of the most revered in the industry, and no, you can NOT skin them alive and expect to obtain a full pelt. The same goes for mink, ermine, fox, etc…
Hate fur all you want. Just don’t perpetuate lies while doing it.
Team PETA. I’m shocked and disappointed that anyone would climb on the fur bandwagon.
@ Daisyfly: You make an excellent, well-said point. Sadly, usually when people have an opinion on something–whether it’s based on fact or not–they’re pretty unlikely to change it.
I have no desire to wear fur, but have no problem eating meat. So, I sit in neither camp, I guess. But if you’re going to be passionate about something people, please make sure you’re educated on the subject. And no, believing every word PETA says does not count as ‘educating yourself’ on the subject.
It doesn’t really matter how they kill the animal… which is why I’m not stressing that too much. As with any cause, you gotta work your way in. First take care of the little things then maybe you can tackle the bigger problem, like eating meat in general. I know it’s pretty difficult to forgo meat. I’ve tried, it ain’t easy (no I’m not a vegetarian). But, how hard is it to not strap a dead animal to your back? Not that hard right… It’s the LEAST we can do to counteract our continual efforts to rape the planet of its resources :-/
I love PETA. I know they do some provocative shit that pisses people off but it’s to get the headlines and when they slam people personally like that I just laugh. I mean really, Brooke is blithely endorsing cruelty and brutality for fashion so how is it out of line to ridicule her?
PETA hate is passe. They are what they are, accept it or ignore it.
Hey, girl’s got to get her attention fix somehow. That outta do it.
Coming up: kicking the disabled, taunting orphans and throwing faecal matter at traffic.
Shes trash and will do ANYTHING for attention. She was a pretty little girl who got lucky as a child but has no talent and lost her looks. She has a terrible personality and if i see her wearing fur will have no problem throwing red paint on her. Im not th ebiggest PETA fan but anyone knows the way animals are killed for fur is PURE torture and is so unneccessarily cruel that anyone who wears fur is EVIL!
bottom line wearing fur is NOT necessary for survival in any way shape or form so why kill animals cruelly for no reason? Just doesnt make sense.
LOVVVEEEE how they call her out for being a faded star desperate for attention- so true!
I find it interesting that most people who are involved with PETA will become nasty in the way the attack people who feel differently than them. I personally am so thankful we live in a country that everyone is allowed an opinion. Sadly, people will use offensive words that only make them look desperate.
The example in this article, quote “Yes, you and your daughters can wear fur, if you want to look like cruel bitches who don’t care about the plight of animals.”
What was the point of calling her and her daughters bitches? I see no wrong in people wearing fur. If that makes me a cruel “bitch” then so be it. Everyone who doesn’t believe in fur being worn, you have that right. Don’t wear it. I have seen a group of PETA attacking people walking by throwing paint, eggs, and bleach on people walking pass them wearing leather and other animal products. Why is that considered okay by most animal activists? Why do most animal activists place an animals life above a human? Do animals need to be protected from abuse? Yes of course. I know I will come under attack for this. I would just hope whoever decides to “put me in my place” will be mature and not come off sounding like a 15 year old throwing a tantrum using offensive language because they think it makes them sound older or cool.
I feel very sorry for anyone if you feel someone who wears fur is evil. A person who rapes, tortures and kills another human being is evil. A dictator that controls his country by use of murder, rape, torture, cutting off body parts, and using horrendous acts of violence is evil. A person that harms a child is evil. There are so many acts of evil that wearing fur is only something people agree upon or not. What might be wrong to you maybe a right to someone else. Who are we to judge another person for wearing fur? I am sure there are things you do in your life that others would gladly place judgment upon you. This world is filled with too many people placing judgment on others for not believing in what they believe.
Why attack and when I say attack I mean to personally attack someone on how they look, if you feel they can act or not, or just to be nasty in name calling if they do not agree with you? Why would you consider it okay to throw red paint on someone wearing fur?
Until you see an actual animal laid to rest personally for the use of fur you should not attack those that do it. I will not say everyone that makes furs kills animals inhumanly. So much can be done by SGI that you cannot trust what a group professes to be true.That goes for any group. Film can be edited to show whatever you want shown. How many times does the media edit film to show only what they want you to see? It happens everyday. Everyone should see for themselves what happens with their own eyes. I have seen for myself and thought it was done humanly.
And the last I would like to say… I am all for PETA, People for Eating Tasty Animals.
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