Fur is Obscenely Inhumane
Martha Stewart gives up fur, makes PETA video
September 21, 2005, 3:16 PM EDT
NEW YORK -- Martha Stewart, who says she's given up fur, has made a video for PETA.
"I used to wear fur, but like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals," Stewart says in the video.
The 5-minute video on the fur trade is narrated by Stewart and is available on PETA's Web site, http://www.peta.org.
"So much violence in the world seems beyond our control, but this is one cruelty we can stop by being informed consumers," she says.
Stewart's turnaround came this spring when she began communicating from jail by letter with Dan Mathews, the vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Stewart, 64, served five months in a West Virginia federal prison for lying about a 2001 stock sale. That was followed by nearly six months of house arrest, which concluded Sept. 1.
Okay, I've heard good and bad about PETA and their tactics for procuring animal rights, some methods straightforward, some underhanded. But the video footage referred to in the above story is pretty staightforward. What happens to these animals is obscenely inhumane.
I think I've got a pretty strong stomach. I've seen some pretty awful footage on baby seal hunts, etc. I watched this video. What is done to these animals is horrible. But it was the last little bit of footage that showed how OBSCENELY INHUMANE the fur industry is. I had to concentrate-- really concentrate on not vomiting. I kid you not. And this image has been in my head all day. It was obscenely inhumane.
I am a meat-and-potatoes kind of gal, grew up that way. Today, after watching that video, in particular the last clip of footage, I could not bring myself to eat meat. Not for lunch. Not for dinner. And who knows how long it will last. Maybe I'm on the road to becoming vegetarian, I don't know.
I'm gonna say it one more time: the methods used to provide people with their fashionable little furs is OBSCENELY INHUMANE. If you don't believe me, then go watch the video. Especially the last 30 seconds or so.
September 21, 2005, 3:16 PM EDT
NEW YORK -- Martha Stewart, who says she's given up fur, has made a video for PETA.
"I used to wear fur, but like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals," Stewart says in the video.
The 5-minute video on the fur trade is narrated by Stewart and is available on PETA's Web site, http://www.peta.org.
"So much violence in the world seems beyond our control, but this is one cruelty we can stop by being informed consumers," she says.
Stewart's turnaround came this spring when she began communicating from jail by letter with Dan Mathews, the vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Stewart, 64, served five months in a West Virginia federal prison for lying about a 2001 stock sale. That was followed by nearly six months of house arrest, which concluded Sept. 1.
Okay, I've heard good and bad about PETA and their tactics for procuring animal rights, some methods straightforward, some underhanded. But the video footage referred to in the above story is pretty staightforward. What happens to these animals is obscenely inhumane.
I think I've got a pretty strong stomach. I've seen some pretty awful footage on baby seal hunts, etc. I watched this video. What is done to these animals is horrible. But it was the last little bit of footage that showed how OBSCENELY INHUMANE the fur industry is. I had to concentrate-- really concentrate on not vomiting. I kid you not. And this image has been in my head all day. It was obscenely inhumane.
I am a meat-and-potatoes kind of gal, grew up that way. Today, after watching that video, in particular the last clip of footage, I could not bring myself to eat meat. Not for lunch. Not for dinner. And who knows how long it will last. Maybe I'm on the road to becoming vegetarian, I don't know.
I'm gonna say it one more time: the methods used to provide people with their fashionable little furs is OBSCENELY INHUMANE. If you don't believe me, then go watch the video. Especially the last 30 seconds or so.
posted by pandoraz_boxx at 10:48 PM
4 Comments:
She may have sworn off of fur but she's still cooking those lamb chops.
Thats true, but at least its a start...
... and the lamb is *dead* when we get the meat ... but the ones from which the fur was taken?? Well ... like Pandora says ... watch the video.
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