AR News-- 21/03/2005

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PETA targets Versace

March 20, 2005 Designer Donatella Versace, who

controls the Versace empire after the murder of her

brother, fashion icon Gianni Versace, is in Mumbai.

 

Donatella is part of the final of the reality

television show, Lakme Fashion House, the winner of

which will intern with the house of Versace in Italy.

 

Even as the fashion press goes ballistic with

Donatella’s presence here, Donatella may find that the

legendary Indian hospitality stretches only so far.

The India chapter of the People for the Ethical

Treatment of Animals (PETA) is going after Donatella

Versace, targeting her with an advertisement that

says, “Fur is Worn by beautiful Animals and Ugly

People”

 

 

http://ww1.mid-day.com/news/city/2005/march/105944.htm.

 

 

 

Woolgrowers eye end to the cruel cut

 

21.03.05

by Ben Sandilands

 

 

The eyes of Australia’s struggling woolgrowers are

fixed on the rear ends of a merino ram and his ewes on

a sheep stud on the remote Eyre Peninsula west of

Adelaide, South Australia.

 

Merinos not only produce the most sought-after fine

wool in the world, but do so in voluminous fleeces

that hang in great folds over every part of them save

their faces and hooves.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1 & ObjectID=10116311

 

 

 

Mailloux pegs these limitations to animal-rights

groups like PETA, of which he does not speak fondly.

 

" I have no love for PETA, " Mailloux said. " But a

by-product of all these things ---- not just PETA but

of the regulations that are coming about ---- is that

it makes it worthwhile for us to actually breed these

animals. "

 

Suffocating regulations have indirectly and ironically

helped his business grow enormously. Before PETA came

into the picture, Mailloux said, wild-caught animals

could be traded en masse for pennies. Breeders do not

make much money that way, and the wild-caught animals

are full of parasites and sores, which means an

unreliable inventory.

 

As the supply of these creatures has gone way down,

Mailloux has raised prices way up. He charges

customers $25 to $300 for a bearded dragon, depending

on color or rarity. Ever-elusive albinos ---- " the

Holy Grail of bearded dragons " ---- can go for $5,000.

 

Mailloux suspects he is the largest reptile breeder in

North County, and he was certainly the first more than

20 years ago. Now, he says, the local market is

crowded with competition.

 

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/03/20/business/news/17_43_193_19_05.txt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GREATNESS OF NATION AND ITS MORAL PROGRESS

CAN BE JUDGED BY THE WAY ITS ANIMALS ARE TREATED- M.K

GANDHI.

 

STOP HUMAN AND ANIMAL SUFFERING - GO VEGAN

 

I am only one but still I am one.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something.

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Helen Keller 1880 - 1968

 

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a

slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals. "

—Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German Jewish philosopher

forced into exile by the Nazis

 

 

GREATNESS OF NATION AND ITS MORAL PROGRESS

CAN BE JUDGED BY THE WAY ITS ANIMALS ARE TREATED- M.K GANDHI.

STOP HUMAN AND ANIMAL SUFFERING - GO VEGAN

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do

something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Helen Keller 1880 - 1968

 

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