17
Jul
When PETA Met Burberry
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At this very moment somewhere in London, Bruce Friedrich (on behalf of PETA and PETA US) is at Burberry’s AGM.
You may remember what happened last time he met Burberry. It went a little something like this:
Bruce: I hope you will meet with us; I think if you saw these fur farms, if you really understood the horrible abuse of animals involved in the fur industry, you’d agree to stop designing with this cruel material.
Fashion bigwig: What gives you the right to come in here and hijack this event and take over everything and disrupt it and ruin this event? This is not the place for this discussion.
There was a whole lot more, but you can read it here.
Yesterday, activists sent emails to Burberry HQ, urging them to discuss the use of fur in the annual meeting today, and to consider dropping animal skins from their collections for good. If this line of conversation does arise, it’ll be pretty interesting to see how it goes. I wait with baited bated breath and will let you know if anything exciting happens!
Fantastic - especially the “you have no style” part.
What gives him the right? This is all Bailey could muster in the way of defense? the animals they torture and slaughter cannot speak to a crowd to express their pain. We must do this for them - it gives us all the right - any time and any place and to anyone that thinks cruelty is okay - or “stylish”
Thank you PETA