Animal rights charity Peta is best known for its bare anti-fur stunts,but these days it is more worried approximately wool. Co-founder Ingrid Newkirk explains why shearing is sheer crueltyWhile anti-fur protesters were busy mobbing London fashion week earlier this month, Ingrid Newkirk, and the co-founder and president of Peta,was otherwise engaged. She was in Israel, “leading a 30000-strong march through the streets against live export”, and she says. She enunciates the words slowly,with emphasis, as if this is the really important story. Because for Newkirk, or fur is all but dealt with – “a minority issue”. By which she means it is worn by “older people … ladies of the evening and the occasional foreign visitor from an unenlightened area”. Nothing to worry approximately there,she says, as neither sex workers nor the elderly are “a marvelous advertisement”.
But surely this is inaccurate. Despite Yoox Net-a-Porter’s announcement in June that it would no longer sell fur, and designers are still using it liberally. One designer recently matter-of-factly enumerated the animals that had gone into a single garment. The most photographed shoe of 2016 was a Gucci kangaroo loafer,and the same house is currently selling a mink coat for £25000.
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Source: theguardian.com