This is just the kind of thing that is going to happen to PETA because of their antics. They are animal rights terroists who will do anything for publicity and make the rest of us look bad rather than furthering their cause. And before everyone gets mad at me think about it…when you are are an organization promoting Ahimsa and nonviolence why would you resort to hateful acts and antics? PETA makes animal rights look like a big joke which is why I am not a card carrying member because I am serious about my animal rights and not just out for any form of publicity. On that note they will probably like this spread becaue they can show they A** again in a retort.

And Chloe just helped reinforce moonunits’s point. Nice…vulgarity (and violence) always works to win an argument. If logic fails bring out the F word, threats and assault with buckets of paint…

moonunit is right, as long as PETA acts like a thug organization they will continue to lose support from those of us who have dedicated our lives to eradicating animal cruelty (in whatever form it presents itself). Not to mention turning off thousands of potential animal rights supporters in the “mainstream” .

BTW moonunit sad that you have to worry about other commenters here getting “mad” at your very common sense approach to this issue. That speaks volumes in and of itself.

Lena

i dont know much about any of you, but i can see the fashion side of this. its a good shot, and many models, photographers, and magazines have had many a shots very similar to this one.
PETA may go overboard on some things, but it is for a good cause. even if some people are in it for the wrong reason, they are still spreading the word. which is what an orginazation is about, is it not?
people are going to wear fur as long as the earth spins. to each is own. its good to have organizations out there, but people arent going to change just to make you happy.some people do change after awhile looking and researching, but some people cant. its habit, and its a bad one. but we all have them.and no i agree it isnt good to generalize. or use vulgarity to win a fight, it just makes you seem immature, and unaware.

Old Rottenfeld is such a hag.

Ecorazzi, how can you post a blog about this and approach it as though it’s an arguable topic with room for conflicting opinions? As people invested in preservin the ecology, you should know that fur farming is more harmful to the environment than any synthetics production.

As to the PETA haters here, do a little research: PETA is a totally non-violent organization, unaffiliated with other “terrorist” (silly how people bandy that word about these days) like the ALF (which, by the way, is not an organization, but the title given to many different cells). The People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals are here out of pure compassion and the urge to stop the heartless, useless torture animals endure every day on factory farms and fur farms.

Animals used for their fur are beaten to death, anally and vaginally electrocuted, drowned, gassed, poisoned, and often skinned alive, while still conscious. The life on a fur farm isn’t any better than the death: animals are crammed into cages too small to even turn around in, often living in their own filth and waste without even the provision of clean water. Many animals die in the cages, and their terrified and often starving cagemates resort to eating the corpses in a desperate attempt to survive. Many animals go insane. As they are lined up for slaughter, they watch the others suffer and die; they recognize what is happening; they feel fear. Animals trapped in the wild aren’t lucky, either: they often suffer for days in steel-jaw traps, waiting and waiting to put out of their misery. Unfortunatly, there’s no peace in death for these animals, when the trappers return to strangle, bludgeon, or stomp them to death.

Go to FurIsDead.com for footage. There, you’ll see a little fox, who, after having her skin ripped off her body, blinks helplessly up at the camera. You’ll see a beaver drown slowly. You’ll see bunnies hung upside down, watching their cagemates throats get slits, than bleeding to deaths themselves. All this, for the sake of “fashion.”

If you wouldn’t do this to your cat or dog, don’t support people who do it to animals JUST LIKE THEM.

And really, it’s not fashion. Fashion should look cool, sexy, or beautiful, and none of the adjectives describe fur when you know what’s behind it. If you’re wearing fur, no amount of chic accessories can keep intellegent people from seeing your outside AND inside as UGLY. …Plus, faux fur can be just as nice, and much cheaper. In this socially and ecologically conscious age, wearing fur is simply a pathetic act of conspicuous consumerism.

As to PETA’s “antics,” well, if PETA didn’t do what they do, they wouldn’t get the attention they do, and then French Vogue wouldn’t have run these photos: anyone with a soul will see these pictures as “Vogue’s antics,” which, judging by these shots, are more vulgar, innapropriate, trashy, indecent, obnoxious, rude, socially unaware, and stupid than anything PETA’s ever done.