Sophia Loren: The Fur Wearing Anti-Brigitte Bardot?
Written by Vegetarian Star on September 21st, 2009 in Actresses, Animal Issues, Fur.
The end of September marks birthdays for two big sex symbol icons of the 60s, Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot.
Both woman turn 75 this month and were known for their screen goddess film looks in their youth, but from an animal rights point of view, they’re polar opposites.
After retiring from movies around the age of 40, vegetarian Bardot devoted her life to animal activism, calling it “the most wonderful success” of her life.
And when Loren posed in a fur ad for an Italian designer in the 90s, Bardot wrote to her saying, “Wearing a fur is wearing a cemetery on your back.”
In Defense of Animals posted this formula for the number of animals it takes to make fur coat.
“To make one fur coat you must kill at least fifty-five wild mink, thirty-five ranched mink, forty sables, eleven lynx, eighteen red foxes, eleven silver foxes, one hundred chinchillas, thirty rex rabbits, nine beavers, thirty muskrats, fifteen bobcats, twenty-five skunks, fourteen otters, one hundred twenty-five ermines, thirty possums, one hundred squirrels, or twenty-seven raccoons.”
That’s quite a pet cemetery.
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September 21st, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Actually, wearing a mink coat represents 2 tons of your food production waste recycled through 30 mink. So if you eat the typical diet of an omnivore, which most of us do, you’re already feeding mink.
The alternative to natural fiber clothing for cold weather comes from “fake fur” which is oil, or plastic by another name.
Lots more info at http://www.furcommission.com/environ/index.html
September 30th, 2009 at 8:30 am
I am really not a fan of people telling others what to do…and then doing it in the birthday wishes? I think that it’s everyone’s personal choice and RIGHT to wear or not to wear what they want. Fur is nature’s most beautiful and environmentally friendly fiber and thanks to the Origin Assured label it is also a responsible one. And let’s be honest, Sophia is a real Hollywood diva and she looks absolutely sensational in fur.
September 30th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Nika,
“Fur is nature’s most beautiful and environmentally friendly fiber”
you’re absolutely right, fur is nature’s most beautiful and environmentally friendly fiber-for the animal it grows on.
There’s nothing beautiful about skinning an animal alive for fur or raising these animals on fur farms in cramped, caged conditions.
I’ve never seen Sophia in fur but I bet she looks stupid and ugly.
August 27th, 2010 at 10:09 am
I wouldn’t romanticize Brigitte Bardot–a woman who has been repeatedly fined by the French government for hate speech against immigrants. She may love animals, but she’s not too kind to her fellow humans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot#Politics.2C_controversy_and_legal_issues