NEWS AND OPINION: Being an animal advocate, I like to see this. I know a lot of people won’t. They’ll think that it is mad and just plain disruptive but I love it. It seems that this was a very well organised, highly visible protest as when one of the protestors is hustled off the catwalk another popped up and did the same thing: walk alongside the models. It looks very strange.
The models just kept on walking. The protest was about the use of leather in fashion. Beckham does not use fur and “exotic skins” whatever that means but her fashion label still uses “a large quantity of cruelly obtained leather particularly calfskin” according to PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).
PETA wants Beckham to use alternatives. I have written about a product called Celium for instance. There is no need to use the skin of animals these days. Celium is 100% bio-based leather.
No garment or accessory is worth violently slaughtering and skinning a sensitive and intelligent animal. We are urging Victoria Beckham to turn instead to the ethical and eco-friendly innovations available today, such as high-end leather made from apples, grapes, pineapples, mushrooms and more.
PETA’s president for Europe, Mimi Bekhechi,
Comment: We are well beyond the time when there is no excuse for using the skin of animals in clothing. It is time to stop. I am surprised that Beckham allows it. She has probably complained about the protest but she has brought it upon herself.
The making of cat fur is big business in China where millions of cats – domestic and feral – are cruelly slaughtered for the skin on their backs annually. It is truly horrendous. We must also remember the dogs who suffer in the same way. Shame on the Chinese.
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PETA’s motto: “Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.” It’s good. A lot of people think PETA are extreme. They have to be extreme sometimes to get noticed among all the noise of day-to-day life.
The banner in the picture and video says: ‘Viva vegan leather’, meaning ‘long live vegan leather’ meaning artificial leather like the Celium.
Sadly, another animal advocate, Nathan Winograd, is a permanent war with PETA. It must stop in the interests of animal welfare.
I did and read the study abstracts. I think one of them inspired an article. Not bad 😉. Keep well. And thanks for the comments. Nice to get some comments. You know 15 years ago which is 2 years after I started this site I got thousands of comments but the world was different then. This site was the number one cat website in the world by hits. No everthing to do with cats has been discussed a million times.
If you looked at the literature I shared with you