Fur flies over fashion

Animal rights demonstrators waved posters of skinned and bloody mink corpses outside the prestigious Nederberg Fashion Week in Cape Town on Saturday.

About 50 humans, along with two dogs and a goat, mounted the protest under the watchful eye of city police on the pavement outside Cape Town's newly completed International Convention Centre to object to the use of furs in the event.

Among the posters was a large one directed at couturier and convenor of the event Gavin Rajah, asking: "May we skin your children Mr Rajah?" and another urging "For fox sake don't wear fur".

The protest was organised by Beauty Without Cruelty...

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elderly ladies in fur coats than Hell's Angels in leather jackets for some reason.

Amazing philosophy.

Or a chickenshit one...whatever.

As far as I know, those animals are raised only to slaughter for their hides. Hell's Angels probably have a burger from time to time.

I'm a vegetarian and think it's all barbaric, but I certainly don't fault the folks who protest against fur. There's nothing more vain than some rich-bitch woman sporting some other creature's pelt.

RV

I still remember my first 'debate' with defense contractor co-workers about 15 years ago. A group, against me as usual, were discussing the killing of whales, bears... they said, 'well, you've eaten meat at every happy hour I've ever seen you at.' I said, 'come on you don't know the difference between wild animals and domesticated animals raised for eating?' I swear I can still see the pondering in their eyes that they NEVER really thought about that.

I am sure we are a product of our corporate handlers. In the Midwest there was no such thing as a vegetarian restaurant. I never even knew something as such existed until I went school in Hawaii. I thought it would be impossible to fill my stomach without meat.

But in fact, I believe children don't understand the relationship between the clean slabs of meat in the supermarket to an ACTUAL living, breathing, personality, warm with blood THING. As far as I'm concerned, the slabs are looked at in the same way as ice-cream. I think you can even say 80% of the adults are in this category.

How many Americans have actually butchered an animal? I looked at it from a hole different feeling when I helped my friends family shoot, with a gun, in the brain a cow. Then we strung it up and began slicing it's hide off. Then came the different parts of the body. Lastly we dumped the guts in a field. We are sanitized by our corporations by our media. Even Whore CNN has that promo about the photographer in ??? Bosian??? who was hit by a shell. Right in the CNN promo he says, 'we journalists are sanitizing all this by not 'being allowed' to show the true horror and bloodshed of war.

I bet more than half of Americans would become vegetarians after raised then butchered a cow or pig.

Nobody eats mink so they are being killed just so someone can wear them as a coat. Many people eat cows so they are being killed for their meat and their skin is used for leather products. Cows would be killed for food even if Hell's Angels stopped wearing leather jackets tomorrow.