Burberry in Trouble With PETA

Anglo_big Oh dear. Last week Burberry were getting all hot under their designer collars because Christopher Bailey had been seen out and about with Victoria Beckham. This week they're in trouble with anti-fur campaigners PETA, and I don't know about you, but I don't fancy their chances, personally.

PETA are upset because Burberry's contribution to the Anglomania exhibition at the Met includes a fox-fur trimmed trench coat. In fact, they're so annoyed that they're demanding the design house withdraw the piece

Peta president Ingrid Newkirk said: "Displaying fur garments, especially fur items that serve to advertise goods that visitors can purchase just a few blocks from the museum, sends the message the it's somehow acceptable to torture and kill animals for mere fashion."

The Met, meanwhile, say the trench coat serves to "open up the moral discourse surrounding blood sports and fur fashions."

The fur trench coat was not available for comment.

Whose side are you on?

brad

Fur wearers are heartless and cruel.

fur

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/videodirect.asp?video=fur_farm

Leo

I think Fur looks awful, it's also disgusting that Animals are raised and so brutally murdered just for other's vanity. People who wear Fur should be shot!

Gwen

People who are ethically opposed to fur coats are either hypocrites are just flat out misinformed. PeTA flat out lies about fur and people swallow it whole and never even try to think for themselves.

An Example: PeTA says 90% of furs come from China. This is spin. 90% of fur coats are sewn together in China. The 3 biggest fur ranching countries are the USA, Canada and Finland. Companies buy pelts from them then send them to China to be sewn together because human labor in China is really cheap.

PeTA also says it's impossible to tell where your fur came from. That is a flat out lie. It is a law in most European and American countries that all furs being sold in retail have to come with a tag that says what the fur is, where it was raised and where it was sewn together.

If people actually bothered to think for themselves and look anywhere else besides PeTA for real facts on fur, they would find out that not only is fur not cruel or wasteful, but that fur bearers are often treated much better than cows, pigs and chickens. The Finnish Veteranary society even said that the country's mink were the best treated livestock in the whole country.

If you eat meat, or wear leather, fur is absolutely 100% no worse. The only reason PeTA attacks fur so vehemently is because they're cowards and it's easier to pick on women than big burly bikers wearing tons of leather.

Also, faux fur is made from crude oil and doesn't biodegrade and isn't recyclable. So, if you wear faux fur, you're ruining the environment. Meanwhile, fur is all natural, using mostly salt and alum to preserve it, is biodegradable, recyclable and a renewable resource. Most of the waste generated by fur farms even goes to produce fertilizers. Not to mention that they haven't made a faux fur that is as soft or anywhere near as warm as the real thing.

Think for yourself. Do your own research. Don't just swallow the animal rights propaganda blindly. You'll see that the only difference between fur and leather is that someone used a razor on one.