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.
The thing is when these designers source their leather from China it can be dog and cat and any other mammal. For instance those leather gloves you got for Christmas made in China most definitely are dog and cat skins. And that cute little pompom on your knit hat, it is cat fur! The same is true for leather boots, shoes, purses, jackets etc made in China. Just about any leather good in China can have cat and dog skin.
I once had 200 mostly feral cats on my dirt road neighborhood and it took 3 of us ladies to spay and neuter most of them in 10 years. TNR is the only answer to control feral cats because a-holes will always dump un-neutered cats. They will never stop as I have NEVER been able to stop TNR of cats for 15 years, throw away on my street. In 2023 I spayed and neutered 10. 3 females and 7 males. It’s a never ending battle with the morons who throw their unwanted cats away.
Good comment. Agreed. There needs to be a rethink about cat ownership. It is time. The old ways don’t work anymore. It is distressing to read about your local feral cat problem. It has never changed. As I said in another articles there needs to be stricter rules to tackle the irresponsible minority of cat owners. Cat domestication was never meant to end with an equal number of feral cats and domestic cats with hundreds of millions in the world.
(1).The Cohabitation of Humans and Urban Cats in the Anthropocene. doi: 10.3390/ani11030705;
(2).A moral panic over cats. Conservation Biology, 33(4), 769-776. doi:10.1111/cobi.13346
There are also some articles that I will send you links to on Twitter, this site can’t send links, I suggest you take a look
Many thanks ‘anonymous’ for your support. I will take a look at that research you’ve given me a link to. I need a bit of help sometimes to select some new topics. You might not know it but this site has over 20,000 pages and as you can imagine I sometimes struggle to find something to say! 😎🤢
Have shared two articles on Twitter, did you see them。。
No, sorry. Can you give me a link. That’s nice of you. I looked but can’t find it as you are anonymous 😎.
You look at your Twitter, I share again
The link couldn’t be sent here, so I had to tweet it
I shared the article again under your latest tweet, you can check it out
Thanks.
If you looked at the literature I shared with you
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.
I shared some interesting research on cats and introduced species that you can check out