28
Mar
Aretha Franklin: Drop the Fur for $19k
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Never one to shy away from controversy, PETA US has offered to pay Aretha Franklin’s $19,000 home foreclosure tax bill… on the condition that she ditches the fur for good and donates her unwanted furs to PETA US like Mariah Carey and Kim Cattrall have done in the past. I think that’s a pretty fair deal, don’t you?
In the most recent correspondence with the ‘Queen of Soul’, Ingrid Newkirk tells Aretha all about the fur trade, sparing no detail too gruesome in the hope that she will come to her senses and stop paying for the suffering and death of animals for ‘fashion’.
I love the bit that says: “Our offer is a win-win situation: You get to keep your home and animals get to keep their lives. We are rooting for you to please give animals the R-E-S-P-E-C-T that they deserve by giving up fur.” I’ll let you know if she responds!
Aretha image: Ecorazzi / Creative Commons
I am digusted at this photo of Aretha Franklin. One only knows what this animal went through in order for Aretha to make a fashion statement. The only thing she makes me feel is physically sick! I have lost all R-E-S-P-E-C-T for her.