You see that purse that Reese Witherspoon is carrying up there? That’s a python, or rather, it used to be, and PETA doesn’t appreciate it. Are you surprised? Because you really, really shouldn’t be.
And now here’s the part where PETA attempts to publicly shame Reese. Here’s a warning for the more tender readers among us: the middle paragraph is the extremely dramatic and graphic part where they talk about all the python had to go through to be made into a bag:
No matter how much Reese paid for that bag, the animals paid a much higher price.
Every year, millions of snakes are impaled on hooks or nailed to trees by their heads and skinned alive. Hoses are inserted into the mouths of large snakes—like pythons—and their bodies are pumped full of water to loosen their skin so that it will cut away more easily. The animals’ peeled, writhing bodies are then discarded, and it often takes days for the animals to die from the effects of shock and dehydration. We can’t imagine that she’d wish to contribute to this hidden suffering, especially for something as frivolous as a fashion accessory that can be replicated with no bloodshed.
These days, it’s easy to have a look that kills without killing—with fake snake, mock croc, python pleather, and other designer items that pay tribute to the beauty of these animals without massacring them.
I get PETA’s point, I really do, and I completely agree. I don’t think you have to skin a snake just to get a purse (which isn’t all that cute anyway, in my opinion), but there’s a better way to get that point across. You don’t always have to make people physically ill or showcase naked ladies, PETA. There’s more to the world than that.
“This raw meat stuff is getting old and may not only hurt and kill cows, it may hurt Mischa, because so much meat is infected with salmonella, E. coli, and campylobacter that licking it is like licking a toilet. In addition to this being completely unoriginal, it’s completely callous—flesh from a tortured animal isn’t a joke, isn’t camp, and isn’t cool. Meat is full of blood, is produced with violence, and causes great suffering.”
OK, so while I agree that licking raw meat (ugh, I shudder to think of it) is completely gross and it’s probably as good as licking a toilet, the part about being callous and insensitive to cows is RIDICULOUS. I mean, I eat meat, so now does that make me uncool? Insensitive? VIOLENT and WILLING TO EMBRACE GREAT BOVINE SUFFERING?
Please, PETA. Get over yourselves, because though there are many out there who support you, there are just as many (like myself) who think you’re a bunch of over-bored nut jobs. Please excuse me while I go make a smorgasbord of sausage, steak, ham, bacon, and scrapple for breakfast. I’m feeling the need for a juicy, grass-fed ANIMAL this morning.
Marina & The Diamonds called out the new PETA ad that makes light of the whole TSA body scan debacle and she made an interesting point: Why are these ads always filled with naked chicks? Whether they’re famous or not, PETA always uses female sexuality to hawk veganism.
This is the ad in question:
Marina added in a second Tweet, “Yeah, this is real… Where are the naked guys in these ads?!”
I don’t know if men appearing in the ads would “even the score.” It would be interesting if PETA developed a new marketing strategy that didn’t involve naked humans covering their bits with live animals.
Kelis loves fur and she’s not trying to hide it, either, by saying that it’s fake or leftovers of a Britney weave haircut or something.
While plenty of other celebrities are looking to stomp for the cause, Kelis is clearly not one of them, claiming that the organization is judgmental, hypocritical and kind of pointless — at least based on the way she claims they run. Kelis states that she’s a “complete carnivore” and would have “fur walls” if she could.
Put that in your furless vegan pipe and smoke it, PETA.
“I’m briefly saddened by negative comments, but I have to remember those people are scared, incapable or just plain idiots. We are the f—ing rock stars baby. No cocaine, just life my n—as!! No cocaine, just life! It’s funny to me when fashion bloggers down our outfits and then super jock outlandish sh– on the runway but they dress mad prude and don’t live fashion.”
- Kanye West’s response to PETA, who recently dissed him for wearing fur.
It’s pretty brave to pose nude, but it’s even braver to release the untouched version of the same nude photo. Or incredibly vain and self-important. However, I have to give Bethenny Frankel props for not hesitating to shut down rumors that her PETA shots were overly-Photoshopped by releasing this “before” photo to Us Weekly. The pregnant Real Housewife of New York/Skinnygirl Cocktails Queen has a better body than I do, that’s for damn sure, and she’s 39 years old. Hmmm. That’s making me rethink my decision to drunkenly eat two pieces of sausage pizza at midnight last night.
“Everything I’m about is being honest and being upfront. So if people are talking and saying [the photo] was airbrushed…then, you know what? Here’s the picture. Have it your way,” Frankel told US. Damn!
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