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Fur Protest Miss Florida USA. Credit:Broward Palm Beach Time News

The Miss Florida USA pageant invited ladies to a preliminary event held in Hollywood this weekend, and activists from the Fort Lauderdale-based Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF) were there to protest the organization’s acceptance of fur products from the Fur Information Council of American (FICA) sponsoring and giving away fur coats to winners.

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Fur is becoming so unpopular these days, why aren’t farmers and retailers taking the hint?

The People’s Court recently featured an episode where a judge ruled a consignment shop had to donate fur that wouldn’t sell to charity.

According to PETA’s blog, legal analyst for the show and celebrity gossip show TMZ host Harvey Levin said, “It’s just cruel. … The skin ought to stay on the animals.”

Now that’s some gossip worth passing on!

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Kelis sounds off on her PETA feud about that famous fur hat in this MTV video.

She says she thinks it was strange she got a letter from them, considering she’s worn “way more” fur than what she was wearing when the controversy ignited.

Kelis justifies her fashion choice with the fact the weather was “freezing” and she loves the hat.

Right.

Perfectly good excuses to buy something killed for the sake of vanity purposes.

Avoid the Kelis fur pas and opt for a faux fur hat instead.

Watch for Kelis’ excuses around minute 4:00.

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Kate Ford PETA

Kate Ford, star of Coronation Street, has posed nude in a PETA campaign to convince officials to use fake fur instead of real bear fur in the hats worn by the Queen’s guards.

“I would ask the Ministry of Defence to reconsider their choice to use real bear fur for the Guards’ caps,” Ford told PETA UK in an interview. “The use of the real fur is uncalled for, as the fake fur is luxurious and looks the same. For this reason, there is no need for bears to go through unimaginable suffering. I ask them to reconsider and choose the compassionate option.

Ford was named “Best Bitch” in British soap opera awards in 2004 and 2005 for her character’s disposition, but luckily for the bears and everyone else, she’s quite empathetic in real life, sharing her home with two elderly cats.

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Green Day "American Idiot" Musical

Who ever thought Billie Joe Armstrong would make it to Broadway?

The American Idiot musical portrays young adults trying to find their way through the world: one leaves to fight for his country, another escapes to the city, and another gets stuck in suburbia.

Seen here is a video of the cast singing Green Day’s “21 Guns.”

Sure hope that leopard attire on one cast member is fake, because only an American Idiot would still be wearing real fur.

Take a look, watch the video and decide for yourself.

Fur real?

Or (hopefully) fur fake.

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Louise Van De Vorst made a creative scene at Australian Fashion Week on Wednesday when she arrived in a Volcano dress by designers Romance Was Born.

Van De Vorst is a successful model who is branching out and starting her own clothing line.

This vegan, much like her boyfriend, Silverchair’s front man Daniel Johns, is quite ethical in her food and fashion, and won’t be putting any real fur on the catwalk.

“With myself I do use fake fur and it’s really important to do that kind of stuff,” she said.

With the rise in real fur at so many fashion weeks during the past few months, Van De Vorst’s ethics are a refreshing change.

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Georges Laraque, former hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens, protested with the Concordia Animal Rights Association (CARA) and PETA outside the Fur and Fashion Exposition of Montréal (NAFFEM) to let every fashionista know that fur is not green.

Far from it. It’s red. And bloody.

While advocates of the fur industry have given their data on why they feel fur is environmentally healthy and sustainable, according to PETA’s blog, it takes 15 times as much energy to produce a fur coat from a farm that raises animals for fur than to make a fake.

There’s also the chemicals involved with the finishing process that have been linked to poor human and environmental health.

The only fur fit for a human is the five o’clock shadow look.

It’s time to get your fake on.

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PETA protests Anna Wintour. Credit: Gothamist

Anna Wintour‘s appearance and speech at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York was met with protesters from People from the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

The Vogue editor is known for her love of fur, and it’s comeback in fashion has been attributed to this.

The protesters held signs with Wintour’s face with taglines that read, “Fur Is Worn by Beautiful Animals and Ugly People,” as well as posters depicting animals being skinned for fur.

PETA’s vice president Tracy Reiman said, “We scoured photo agencies for the shot that most accurately reflects Wintour’s selfish, cruel nature, and although there were many candidates, this one summed it up best. Wintour is the perfect poster girl for one of the most hideous industries on the planet.”

“There’s always a way to wear fur,” Wintour has said. “Personally, I wear it on my back.”

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