Fur
The fur-as-fashion debate raged through the 90's. The shock tactics and pointed propaganda of animal rights organizations like PETA ensured that photos of fur-clad fashionistas covered in fake blood appeared in the papers on a regular basis. While the issue doesn't receive as much coverage today, PETA continues to target celebrities who wear fur and launch provocative ad campaigns. Many are sympathetic to the cause but question PETA's aggressive tactics or the organization's opposition to medical testing that could greatly improve the quality of human life. Others scoff at the suggestion that animals' rights are tantamount to those of humans or challenge animals' consciousness of pain.
 
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1.8.08
| 09:21 AM - |
Peter is Right in Fact
Anonymous - There was just a scandal few years ago about one of Puff Daddy's clothing lines, fake fur jacket hoods were being made out of Chinese dog Fur.
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1.7.08
| 04:44 PM - |
No further.
Anonymous - The question of fur is often wrongly translated into a question of morality: who would kill a cuddly creature to create a Cruella Deville style outfit of gore? However, I just found a well-reasoned, anti-fur article that I think anyone who is interested in the topic should check out. The insinuation that an animal's true destiny is to become something worthy of hanging in Paris, or on Paris Hilton, speaks volumes to our "modern" mentality of "me first, give me give me" (Paris Hilton). It's a perfect picture of greed and egocentrics that ties neatly back to the image of a woman in furs. And I shouldn't say just women, P. Diddy, that white mink was an atrocity. It's time that everyone took a serious look not only at the fur trade, but at the meat and diary industry as well, and realized that the economic and environmental detriments overwhelm those of sentimental animal rights.
Check out the article at: http://www.friendsofanimals.org/actionline/Fall-2007/Misadventures_in_fur_trade.php |
| 01:25 PM - |
peter - Yeah, sorry about that. People would actually rather buy fake fur now because the feigned authenticity has become a stylistic element of its own. Take that pelt peddlers!
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1.6.08
| 12:56 PM - |
peter- correction
jb - Peter, I think you may have mis-typed. When you say that " some stores are selling fake fur and calling it real fur".....I believe you mean the other way around.
Many stores are selling real fur and calling it fake fur because it sells better. |
1.5.08
| 08:54 PM - |
I hate people with fur.
sultanofswing - I'm sorry. I'm not one of those PETA freaks or animal rights activists. It's not that I really have anything wrong with someone wearing a fox carcass around their neck. People have an aversion to that, just because the fox is cute, while they have no problem eating a steak while wearing a leather jacket, since a cow is as ugly and dumb as...well...a cow. My real problem with people who wear fur is that what kind of a person wears fur?! It's the same woman whose perfume hurts your nose from thirty feet away, whose makeup could make Steve Buschemi look like a chick, whose pearl necklaces give them a hunchback, and whose facelifts knock the smug smirk off their face. What does a fur coat say, but "I'm rich!" and "I'm ostentatious." As far as I'm concerned, those people deserve to have their jackets spraypainted, fur or not.
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1.4.08
| 04:33 PM - |
Not Necessary Anymore
peter - Back in the day, fine. But have you seen fake fur? Not only is it increasingly in fashion, but it's really accurate. In fact, some stores are selling fake fur and calling it real fur because it has a better chance of selling that way!
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