Forget fur – is it time to stop wearing wool?
By Paula Cocozza
Animal rights charity PETA is best known for its naked anti-fur stunts, but these days it is more worried about wool. Co-founder Ingrid Newkirk explains why shearing is sheer cruelty.
While anti-fur protesters were busy mobbing London fashion week earlier this month ( www.standard.co.uk/news/london… ), Ingrid Newkirk, the co-founder and president of Peta, was otherwise engaged. She was in Israel, “leading a 30,000-strong march through the streets against live export”, she says. She enunciates the words slowly, with emphasis, as if this is the really important story. Because for Newkirk, fur is all but dealt with – “a minority issue”. By which she means it is worn by “older people … ladies of the evening and the occasional foreign visitor from an unenlightened area”. Nothing to worry about there, she says, as neither sex workers nor the elderly are “a good advertisement”.
But surely this is wrong. Despite Yoox Net-a-Porter’s announcement in June that it would no longer sell fur ( www.vogue.co.uk/article/yoox-n… ), designers are still using it liberally. One designer recently matter-of-factly enumerated the animals that had gone into a single garment. The most photographed shoe of 2016 was a Gucci kangaroo loafer ( www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/br… ), and the same house is currently selling a mink coat for £25,000 ( www.gucci.com/uk/en_gb/pr/wome… ). …
The Guardian – September 24, 2017 at 04:00 PM
www.theguardian.com/fashion/20…
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First Nations Activists Settle in for Lengthy Salmon Farm Occupation
Written by Joseph Keller
Environmental activists and industry interests clash on farmed salmon
A group of First Nations activists is occupying a salmon farm on Swanson Island, B.C., to protest the environmental impact of the operation and demand the removal of the farmed salmon industry. The occupation is made up of four representatives from local Indigenous communities, and is being actively supported by activist organization Sea Shepherd Conservation Society along with researcher and environmentalist Alexandra Morton. …
The Runner – September 24, 2017
First Nations Activists Settle in for Lengthy Salmon Farm Occupation
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Watch out! Hunting season underway
by: BayToday Staff
Hunters must never shoot unless they are absolutely sure of their target and what lies beyond it
The 2017 fall hunting season is now underway and the OPP are patrolling the trails to ensure people are in compliance with the hunting regulations.
There are several things hunters can do to keep themselves and others around them safe during this hunting season. Hunters should keep the following safety rules in mind: …
BayToday – September 24, 2017
www.baytoday.ca/local-news/wat…
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