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ASTRUD GILBERTO |
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REAL PEOPLE WEAR FAKE FUR! Dear friend: When you look at a "beautiful fur coat", think of how many gorgeous animals were brutally entrapped, hurt, terrorized and killed for it.
"Here's the rest of your fur coat" (Photo of pop star Sophie Ellis Bextor, who has joined PETA’s campaign against the fur industry). To read about it, click here Boycott the fur industry! Let's not be partners in the crimes that they commit against animals, entrapping and killing them in horrific ways. Regrettably, too many people are not fully aware of the horrors suffered by the original owners of the coats they buy.
(photo from the "Mercy for Animals" website) - The shameful fur industry: Knowing that there are so many alternatives to "fur" within fashionable garments made without the sacrifice of animals (including faux fur coats), I find it almost unbelievable that anyone in this day and age would want to buy a "real" fur coat. Please take a moment to read about what the fur industry does, in order to manufacture their products. The “ Mercy for Animals” website has truthful and compelling essays about many of the issues that deal with cruelty to animals, including the horrors of the “fur industry”. For an article on “Fur Trapping”, posted by the "Mercy for Animals" organization, click here. From the same website, you can read about “Fur Farming": click here When you buy a fur coat, this is what you're paying for:
If you would like to play a part in the battle against the cruelty of the fur industry, there's plenty you can do, besides not buying fur items. Please go to the "Fur is Dead" website, and learn about little and big things that you can do to help: click here It is so easy to somehow not be fully aware that by buying a fur coat (or any other garment using fur) you actually become an accomplice to cruelty to animals… Regretfully, I myself, at some time in my life wore a fur coat… Although I did not buy it myself, I am guilty of having worn a fur coat that had been given to me by a man that I loved. Gradually, I grew more and more uncomfortable about owning the coat, and donated it to a charity benefiting the homeless. The truth is that we have been desensitized to the term "fur" and so many of us accept the term as merely a type of fabric, not fully realizing that it is the skin of a (once) living being who has been entrapped, terrorized and killed in barbaric ways in order for a fur garment to be created. People sometimes do not realize that by buying a product they are reinforcing the need for that product to exist. The more fur coats and fur trimmed articles are bought, the more the manufacturers will kill and abuse animals in their greedy pursuit of riches… So, my dear friends, with so many other fashion alternatives, I ask you to join me in rejecting the usage of "fur" in any garment you wear. Let there be Life, let there be Love!
The unauthorized copying or publishing of any of the images shown herein is strictly prohibited by USA and by international copyright laws. © 2000 - 2007 Astrud Gilberto. All Rights Reserved. Artist Management by Magya Productions, Inc. (magya@astrudgilberto.com) PROTECTING ANIMALS IS PROTECTING INNOCENCE! |
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