Fur Free Activist Faces Animal Abuser Naomi Campbell

international | animal rights | news report

Friday December 12, 2008 14:58

by ALiberation - ALiberation

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Fur Free Activists asked Naomi Campbell some choice questions about her questionable choices in Dublin on Wednesday. She didn’t comment.
She did look briefly at the poster of a mutilated fox with the words “Ban Irish Fur Farms”.

Fur Industry at work

Ireland currently has at least 5 fur factory farms that cage over 170,000 animals for their entire lives in wire mesh. These animals are denied their rights, suffer greatly and are killed in gross fashion just for gross fashion. Worldwide this happens to billions of animals. Self mutilation, Cannibalism and Stereotypies are just some of the symptoms that these animals exhibit. Animals who are killed by trapping can await days to die. Animals are also rounded up off the streets to be killed for this industry.

Naomi didn’t appear to care. Naomi has made a career out of following one camera flashbulb to the next. She is famous for being part in an anti fur photo shoot in the mid nineties, before deciding to wear fur on the catwalks shortly after. She seems to confuse moral value with monetary value.

On Wednesday, she entered the Westbury Hotel off Grafton St wearing a white fur coat. When she came out again she had taken it off but the fur coat was part of her luggage.

With Naomi was Ali Hewson, wife of Paul David Hewson (Bono). Ali is known to be part of the noble work in Chernobyl, is a patron of the Chernobyl Children’s Project International and has protested against Sellafield. It can only be assumed that Ali has never invited Naomi to partake in any of these causes because to date Naomi is not listed as a Nuclear Power Plant owner.

Story covered elsewhere:
http://perezhilton.com/2008-12-10-its-a-miracle-anti-fu...athed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1093611/Na....html
http://www.showbizireland.com/news/december08/11-fur-fl...shtml
http://www.flylip.com/news/story/201560/

More Info:
http://www.vegaplanet.org/?page_id=294
http://www.antifursociety.org/

Action:
Write an email or letter to the following politicians are get them to confirm what they are going to do about this issue.

Trevor Sargent, Green Party [Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food]
Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
The Green Party say they are opposed to fur factory farming. Make sure they include this in the proposed Animal Welfare and Health Bill
trevor.sargent@oireachtas.ie
cc the other Green Party TD’s:
paul.gogarty@oireachtas.ie
john.gormley@oireachtas.ie
eamon.ryan@oireachtas.ie
mary.white@oireachtas.ie
ciaran.cuffe@oireachtas.ie

Brendan Smith, Fianna Fail
[Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food]
Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Mr. Smith issues the licences to fur factory farms
minister@agriculture.gov.ie

Seán Sherlock, Labour Party Agricultural Spokesperson
20 Blackwater Drive, Mallow, Co. Cork
sean.sherlock@oireachtas.ie

Michael Creed, Fine Gael Agricultural Spokesperson
1, Sullane Weirs, Killarney Road, Macroom, Co. Cork
michael.creed@oireachtas.ie

Sample Letter:
Dear Mr. *******,

Please do all you can to ensure that the outlawing of fur farming is included in the proposed new Animal Welfare Bill. Alternatively please propose a separate legislation to outlaw fur farming in Ireland.
I believe that fur farming is one of the biggest animal welfare/rights issues in Ireland.

I fully support the stand that Fur Factory Farming should be outlawed immediately on the grounds of cruelty to animals and rights violations. Keeping an animal trapped in a small wire mesh cage for their entire life until they are killed by anal electrocution or gassing to death is not acceptable and should stop as soon as possible. Pretending our weak animal welfare laws are appropriate will not ensure this abuse ceases. Only outlawing fur factory farming will. Please give this matter your full attention. I will look forward to your reply.

Yours Sincerely,
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