Sophia Loren: The Fur Wearing Anti-Brigitte Bardot?
Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, 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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