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I was out and about downtown yesterday afternoon to grab lunch at Java Green,

and I could NOT believe all the people wearing fur. Ack! Java Green, however,

was jam-packed more than normal (or what I recall as normal on a weekday), and

while I was there, PETA set up shop outside.

 

I was sick today and went home early and had this misfortune to encounter a

fur-wearing creature on the bus. She was talking to someone else on the bus and

said she lives in Alabama and doesn't need it for warmth, but she just " needs "

it. One of my coworkers implied that some people need coats for warmth,

especially in places like Chicago, but I think most women wear it for vanity.

I hope the Obamas can set a wonderful example for the country by refusing to

touch fur, although they do wear leather.

Danielle

 

 

 

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i noticed this a bunch yesterday while half watching the inauguration...lots of

folks in the stands and on stage in dead

animalssadhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/19/washington-brings-out-the_n_1\

59179.htmlWashington Brings Out The FurHuffington Post | Annie Groer | January

19, 2009 02:18 PM -------------------------Read

More: Inauguration Style, Style News Fur is back. Big time.The high glam factor

of Barack Obama's inauguration, and the city's brutal cold snap seem to have

given many revelers license to come out of their pelt-packed,

politically-incorrect closets swathed in the hides of creatures great and

small.At last night's inaugural ball hosted by TheRoot.com and the Washington

Post, DJ Biz Markie--he of the enormo physique--wore an ankle-grazing black mink

greatcoat, size 62 long, as casually as if it were a bathrobe. " I like my fur. I

have, like, 15 of them: three minks, three sables, two chinchillas... " says the

unapologetic Beat Box regular on the " Yo Gabba Gabba " kids' TV show.Designer

Dianne von Furstenberg came to the same soiree at the National Museum of

American History sporting vintage monkey fur, which is black, shiny, coarse,

very long and poker straight. " I've had it 40 years, so it's been dead a long

time. " she explains. " Sometimes I tell people it's nylon. " L.A. comic Michael

Colyar chose a full-length raccoon for Sunday's jazz brunch thrown by Essence

Magazine and Perennial Sports and Entertainment, one of six furs he owns. " They

all died from acid reflux, " Colyar solemnly swears.And the bleat goes on.Story

continues below Katrina Peebles had two fur coats at the National Portrait

Gallery unveiling of Shepherd Fairey's original, iconic Obama graphic: a lush

Russian sable that her husband--Miami and DC real estate developer Donahue

Peebles--gave her when their son was born 14 years ago, and a mink swing coat

with a zig-zag hem and blood red lining that she'd loaned to a shivering friend

from Florida.Katrina Peebles envelopes her husband Donahue, in her sable

coat.Peebles concedes she " felt bad " wearing her Galanos mink to the National

Zoo with her daughter, a place, after all, where the animals are supposed to

feel safe in their own skins. " I knew it was anti-green. But it was just so cold,

" says Peebles, who owns a half-dozen furs worth $400,000. (She prefers that all

big gifts from hubby come from furriers, not jewelers). Then she adds: " I do eat

red meat, but I do a lot of things for kids. " Bush administration Chief of

Protocol Nancy Brinker topped her gray suit with a woven shawl of indeterminate

taxonomy. With the deft diplomacy required by her day job, she called it

" re-grow-able...It's not a pelt. It's shorn. " She also carried an aubergine mink

purse, and wore a black overcoat lined in something brown and fluffy.It isn't

just boldface names who are piling are on the furs. All over town, revelers are

bundling up in fur jackets, coats, vests, hats, scarves, cuffs, muffs, boot-tops

and stoles..And where there are folks in fur, there is PETA, People for the

Ethical Treatment of Animals, which scored a few raid-paint hits on

hapless-ballgoers at Bill Clinton's 1997 inauguration.Last week they chose an

inaugurally-slow Thursday to stage an extremely public act of charity (are there

any other kind these days?) just blocks from the White House.At a table in

Farragut Square, a media mini-scrum checked out the giveaway of used fur coats

to homeless women who'd been driven across town by staff of the shelters where

they seek refuge. As cameras rolled, the women, some with children, pawed

through the piles, trying on the most promising. Several of them happily left

with a warm coat. Even a homeless man or two got lucky, said Ashley Byrne,

PETA's campaign coordinator. The gents fit into castoffs from some very large

ladies. The inventory comes from remorseful fur owners who donate them to PETA

for use as agit-props in its traveling anti-fur-crusade-cum-street theater.The

coats range from cheap ratty rabbit (marketed in some quarters as " lapin, " which

is French for bunny) to the occasional mink with the requisite satin lining and

elaborate monogramming.Over the years, PETA has painted, burned, buried, or cut

up for use as animal bedding all those tax-deductible wraps. Nor did this batch

escape alteration.PETA marked the linings and sliced holes in the skins to

minimize resale " marketability " while retaining warm-ability. This ensures " that

people who weren't homeless wouldn't have any incentive to want one, " say Byrne.

This week PETA volunteers--some of them clad in raccoon, fox and rabbit

costumes--will leaflet fur-swathed humans about the error of their ways. " We

realize people have no idea how these animals suffer, how they are beaten or

electrocuted or skinned alive, " says Byrne. The hope is that education begets

donation.To spread the word in downtown gridlock, PETA has bought ads on 20 DC

pedi-cabs, those rickshaw-derived vehicles pulled by strapping young bi-peds.

It's not clear what kind of reaction the protesters will elicit as Obama

supporters dress and redress for multiple events that include church services,

mass outdoor gatherings, black-tie balls, casual receptions, cocktails parties,

and on and on and on. To be sure, millions who love this president love all

God's creatures: designers, models, celebs, wanna-bes and just plain folk who

to the PETA mantra that " Fur Is Dead. " These folks who may have zero

tolerance for anything made from animal products, leather included, and who may

go so far as to insist on cruelty-free silk. Others have made nuanced

calculations about what works for them.Sandra Nelson, a registered nurse from

Gainesville, Va., is s a quiet convert. " I love real fur but once you get a puppy

it's hard to wear it anymore. Besides, they make coats now that look so real,

that are so warm and that are affordable, " she says, fighting the cold in a

black Albert Nipon coat lined in thick polyester.Lawyer and government

contractor Tiffany Brown of nearby Potomac, Maryland wore a striking, floor

length 1940s faux leopard that was cut like a hostess gown: " It's high-style and

not real. I love that, " she says. However, she also owns a fox jacket her father

gave her.Tiffany BrownTangela Lamptey is another paradox, a fur-wearing vegan.

But the Altanta-based Continenal Ailines flight attendant is totally thrilled

with the yummy pink sweater, woven much like Brinker's shawl, that she found on

a run to China. " I bought it because I like it, and I liked the fact it wasn't

real. But I also brought my grandmother's mink to Washington because I was

afraid of the frigid weather. " " Fur is still popular, but it's not hot, " says the

Washington Post's Robin Givhan, winner of the first Pulitzer ever awarded for

fashion writing. " It's not something that was on all the runways the way it was

a couple of years ago, when Dolce and Gabana did a whole collection of fur

skirts, dresses and handbags. But it's definitely still alive and well and it's

still a healthy industry. " Well, maybe not that healthy, given the current

economy and the last couple of warmish winters, though certainly not in AIG or

Chrysler territory either. " Fur is suffering the same fate as luxury apparel, but

it's been a very cold winter, and across the country our retailers report

getting calls from people going to the inauguration, " said Keith Kaplan, who

heads the L.A.-based Fur Information Council of America.The Obama presidency, he

notes, comes amid a shift in consumer demographics. " African-American women have

been representing a larger volume of fur sales because of growing affluence in

the community, and because of the effect of that whole urban look, for men, too.

It's the bling thing. " In 2002, says Kaplan, fewer than 17 percent of fur buyers

were African-American. By 2006, the figure had jumped to nearly 27 percent. PETA

continues undaunted, despite last year's apparent failure to rehabilitate

chronic serial fur-wearer Aretha Franklin.In return for paying $19,000 in back

taxes that the diva owed in late March, thereby saving her Michigan home from

the repo man, PETA wanted her to forsake fur forever and give the group every

last one of her over-the-top coats. " Oh yes, Aretha and her golden

sable, " chuckles Kaplan. " She has quite a hefty closet but she turned them

down. " " Will we ever get to the point that we realize that we will be more secure

when the rest of the world isn't living in poverty just so we can have nice

running shoes? "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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<veggietart wrote:

>

>

> I was out and about downtown yesterday afternoon to grab lunch at

Java Green, and I could NOT believe all the people wearing fur.

Ack! Java Green, however, was jam-packed more than normal (or what I

recall as normal on a weekday), and while I was there, PETA set up

shop outside.

>

> I was sick today and went home early and had this misfortune to

encounter a fur-wearing creature on the bus. She was talking to

someone else on the bus and said she lives in Alabama and doesn't

need it for warmth, but she just " needs " it. One of my coworkers

implied that some people need coats for warmth, especially in places

like Chicago, but I think most women wear it for vanity.

> I hope the Obamas can set a wonderful example for the country by

refusing to touch fur, although they do wear leather.

> Danielle

>

>

>

> EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOODJoin me

>

> ; vegan-network: EBbrewpunx:

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:07:26 -0800[100% veg*n ] fur sadly is

back

>

>

>

> i noticed this a bunch yesterday while half watching the

inauguration...lots of folks in the stands and on stage in dead

animalssadhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/19/washington-brings-

out-the_n_159179.htmlWashington Brings Out The FurHuffington Post |

Annie Groer | January 19, 2009 02:18 PM ------------------------------

----------------------------Read More: Inauguration Style, Style News

Fur is back. Big time.The high glam factor of Barack Obama's

inauguration, and the city's brutal cold snap seem to have given many

revelers license to come out of their pelt-packed, politically-

incorrect closets swathed in the hides of creatures great and

small.At last night's inaugural ball hosted by TheRoot.com and the

Washington Post, DJ Biz Markie--he of the enormo physique--wore an

ankle-grazing black mink greatcoat, size 62 long, as casually as if

it were a bathrobe. " I like my fur. I have, like, 15 of them: three

minks, three sables, two chinchillas... " says the unapologetic Beat

Box regular on the " Yo Gabba Gabba " kids' TV show.Designer Dianne von

Furstenberg came to the same soiree at the National Museum of

American History sporting vintage monkey fur, which is black, shiny,

coarse, very long and poker straight. " I've had it 40 years, so it's

been dead a long time. " she explains. " Sometimes I tell people it's

nylon. " L.A. comic Michael Colyar chose a full-length raccoon for

Sunday's jazz brunch thrown by Essence Magazine and Perennial Sports

and Entertainment, one of six furs he owns. " They all died from acid

reflux, " Colyar solemnly swears.And the bleat goes on.Story continues

below Katrina Peebles had two fur coats at the National Portrait

Gallery unveiling of Shepherd Fairey's original, iconic Obama

graphic: a lush Russian sable that her husband--Miami and DC real

estate developer Donahue Peebles--gave her when their son was born 14

years ago, and a mink swing coat with a zig-zag hem and blood red

lining that she'd loaned to a shivering friend from Florida.Katrina

Peebles envelopes her husband Donahue, in her sable coat.Peebles

concedes she " felt bad " wearing her Galanos mink to the National Zoo

with her daughter, a place, after all, where the animals are supposed

to feel safe in their own skins. " I knew it was anti-green. But it was

just so cold, " says Peebles, who owns a half-dozen furs worth

$400,000. (She prefers that all big gifts from hubby come from

furriers, not jewelers). Then she adds: " I do eat red meat, but I do

a lot of things for kids. " Bush administration Chief of Protocol Nancy

Brinker topped her gray suit with a woven shawl of indeterminate

taxonomy. With the deft diplomacy required by her day job, she called

it " re-grow-able...It's not a pelt. It's shorn. " She also carried an

aubergine mink purse, and wore a black overcoat lined in something

brown and fluffy.It isn't just boldface names who are piling are on

the furs. All over town, revelers are bundling up in fur jackets,

coats, vests, hats, scarves, cuffs, muffs, boot-tops and stoles..And

where there are folks in fur, there is PETA, People for the Ethical

Treatment of Animals, which scored a few raid-paint hits on hapless-

ballgoers at Bill Clinton's 1997 inauguration.Last week they chose an

inaugurally-slow Thursday to stage an extremely public act of charity

(are there any other kind these days?) just blocks from the White

House.At a table in Farragut Square, a media mini-scrum checked out

the giveaway of used fur coats to homeless women who'd been driven

across town by staff of the shelters where they seek refuge. As

cameras rolled, the women, some with children, pawed through the

piles, trying on the most promising. Several of them happily left

with a warm coat. Even a homeless man or two got lucky, said Ashley

Byrne, PETA's campaign coordinator. The gents fit into castoffs from

some very large ladies. The inventory comes from remorseful fur

owners who donate them to PETA for use as agit-props in its traveling

anti-fur-crusade-cum-street theater.The coats range from cheap ratty

rabbit (marketed in some quarters as " lapin, " which is French for

bunny) to the occasional mink with the requisite satin lining and

elaborate monogramming.Over the years, PETA has painted, burned,

buried, or cut up for use as animal bedding all those tax-deductible

wraps. Nor did this batch escape alteration.PETA marked the linings

and sliced holes in the skins to minimize resale " marketability "

while retaining warm-ability. This ensures " that people who weren't

homeless wouldn't have any incentive to want one, " say Byrne. This

week PETA volunteers--some of them clad in raccoon, fox and rabbit

costumes--will leaflet fur-swathed humans about the error of their

ways. " We realize people have no idea how these animals suffer, how

they are beaten or electrocuted or skinned alive, " says Byrne. The

hope is that education begets donation.To spread the word in downtown

gridlock, PETA has bought ads on 20 DC pedi-cabs, those rickshaw-

derived vehicles pulled by strapping young bi-peds. It's not clear

what kind of reaction the protesters will elicit as Obama supporters

dress and redress for multiple events that include church services,

mass outdoor gatherings, black-tie balls, casual receptions,

cocktails parties, and on and on and on. To be sure, millions who

love this president love all God's creatures: designers, models,

celebs, wanna-bes and just plain folk who to the PETA

mantra that " Fur Is Dead. " These folks who may have zero tolerance

for anything made from animal products, leather included, and who may

go so far as to insist on cruelty-free silk. Others have made nuanced

calculations about what works for them.Sandra Nelson, a registered

nurse from Gainesville, Va., is s a quiet convert. " I love real fur

but once you get a puppy it's hard to wear it anymore. Besides, they

make coats now that look so real, that are so warm and that are

affordable, " she says, fighting the cold in a black Albert Nipon coat

lined in thick polyester.Lawyer and government contractor Tiffany

Brown of nearby Potomac, Maryland wore a striking, floor length 1940s

faux leopard that was cut like a hostess gown: " It's high-style and

not real. I love that, " she says. However, she also owns a fox jacket

her father gave her.Tiffany BrownTangela Lamptey is another paradox,

a fur-wearing vegan. But the Altanta-based Continenal Ailines flight

attendant is totally thrilled with the yummy pink sweater, woven much

like Brinker's shawl, that she found on a run to China. " I bought it

because I like it, and I liked the fact it wasn't real. But I also

brought my grandmother's mink to Washington because I was afraid of

the frigid weather. " " Fur is still popular, but it's not hot, " says

the Washington Post's Robin Givhan, winner of the first Pulitzer ever

awarded for fashion writing. " It's not something that was on all the

runways the way it was a couple of years ago, when Dolce and Gabana

did a whole collection of fur skirts, dresses and handbags. But it's

definitely still alive and well and it's still a healthy

industry. " Well, maybe not that healthy, given the current economy and

the last couple of warmish winters, though certainly not in AIG or

Chrysler territory either. " Fur is suffering the same fate as luxury

apparel, but it's been a very cold winter, and across the country our

retailers report getting calls from people going to the

inauguration, " said Keith Kaplan, who heads the L.A.-based Fur

Information Council of America.The Obama presidency, he notes, comes

amid a shift in consumer demographics. " African-American women have

been representing a larger volume of fur sales because of growing

affluence in the community, and because of the effect of that whole

urban look, for men, too. It's the bling thing. " In 2002, says

Kaplan, fewer than 17 percent of fur buyers were African-American. By

2006, the figure had jumped to nearly 27 percent. PETA continues

undaunted, despite last year's apparent failure to rehabilitate

chronic serial fur-wearer Aretha Franklin.In return for paying

$19,000 in back taxes that the diva owed in late March, thereby

saving her Michigan home from the repo man, PETA wanted her to

forsake fur forever and give the group every last one of her over-the-

top coats. " Oh yes, Aretha and her golden sable, " chuckles Kaplan. " She

has quite a hefty closet but she turned them down. " " Will we ever get

to the point that we realize that we will be more secure when the

rest of the world isn't living in poverty just so we can have nice

running shoes? "

 

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had to look java green uphttp://www.javagreencafe.com/neatvegan-network , Danielle Kichler <veggietart wrote:>> > I was out and about downtown yesterday afternoon to grab lunch at Java Green, and I could NOT believe all the people wearing fur. Ack! Java Green, however, was jam-packed more than normal (or what I recall as normal on a weekday), and while I was there, PETA set up shop outside.> > I was sick today and went home early and had this misfortune to encounter a fur-wearing creature on the bus. She was talking to someone else on the bus and said she lives in Alabama and doesn't need it for warmth, but she just "needs" it. One of my coworkers implied that some people need coats for warmth, especially in places like Chicago, but I think most women wear it for vanity.> I hope the Obamas can set a wonderful example for the country by refusing to touch fur, although they do wear leather.> Danielle > > > > EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOODJoin me> > ; vegan-network: EBbrewpunx: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:07:26 -0800[100% veg*n ] fur sadly is back> > > > i noticed this a bunch yesterday while half watching the inauguration...lots of folks in the stands and on stage in dead animalssadhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/19/washington-brings-out-the_n_159179.htmlWashington Brings Out The FurHuffington Post | Annie Groer | January 19, 2009 02:18 PM -------------------------Read More: Inauguration Style, Style News Fur is back. Big time.The high glam factor of Barack Obama's inauguration, and the city's brutal cold snap seem to have given many revelers license to come out of their pelt-packed, politically-incorrect closets swathed in the hides of creatures great and small.At last night's inaugural ball hosted by TheRoot.com and the Washington Post, DJ Biz Markie--he of the enormo physique--wore an ankle-grazing black mink greatcoat, size 62 long, as casually as if it were a bathrobe."I like my fur. I have, like, 15 of them: three minks, three sables, two chinchillas..." says the unapologetic Beat Box regular on the "Yo Gabba Gabba" kids' TV show.Designer Dianne von Furstenberg came to the same soiree at the National Museum of American History sporting vintage monkey fur, which is black, shiny, coarse, very long and poker straight. "I've had it 40 years, so it's been dead a long time." she explains. "Sometimes I tell people it's nylon."L.A. comic Michael Colyar chose a full-length raccoon for Sunday's jazz brunch thrown by Essence Magazine and Perennial Sports and Entertainment, one of six furs he owns."They all died from acid reflux," Colyar solemnly swears.And the bleat goes on.Story continues below Katrina Peebles had two fur coats at the National Portrait Gallery unveiling of Shepherd Fairey's original, iconic Obama graphic: a lush Russian sable that her husband--Miami and DC real estate developer Donahue Peebles--gave her when their son was born 14 years ago, and a mink swing coat with a zig-zag hem and blood red lining that she'd loaned to a shivering friend from Florida.Katrina Peebles envelopes her husband Donahue, in her sable coat.Peebles concedes she "felt bad" wearing her Galanos mink to the National Zoo with her daughter, a place, after all, where the animals are supposed to feel safe in their own skins."I knew it was anti-green. But it was just so cold, " says Peebles, who owns a half-dozen furs worth $400,000. (She prefers that all big gifts from hubby come from furriers, not jewelers). Then she adds: "I do eat red meat, but I do a lot of things for kids."Bush administration Chief of Protocol Nancy Brinker topped her gray suit with a woven shawl of indeterminate taxonomy. With the deft diplomacy required by her day job, she called it "re-grow-able...It's not a pelt. It's shorn." She also carried an aubergine mink purse, and wore a black overcoat lined in something brown and fluffy.It isn't just boldface names who are piling are on the furs. All over town, revelers are bundling up in fur jackets, coats, vests, hats, scarves, cuffs, muffs, boot-tops and stoles..And where there are folks in fur, there is PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which scored a few raid-paint hits on hapless-ballgoers at Bill Clinton's 1997 inauguration.Last week they chose an inaugurally-slow Thursday to stage an extremely public act of charity (are there any other kind these days?) just blocks from the White House.At a table in Farragut Square, a media mini-scrum checked out the giveaway of used fur coats to homeless women who'd been driven across town by staff of the shelters where they seek refuge. As cameras rolled, the women, some with children, pawed through the piles, trying on the most promising. Several of them happily left with a warm coat. Even a homeless man or two got lucky, said Ashley Byrne, PETA's campaign coordinator. The gents fit into castoffs from some very large ladies. The inventory comes from remorseful fur owners who donate them to PETA for use as agit-props in its traveling anti-fur-crusade-cum-street theater.The coats range from cheap ratty rabbit (marketed in some quarters as "lapin," which is French for bunny) to the occasional mink with the requisite satin lining and elaborate monogramming.Over the years, PETA has painted, burned, buried, or cut up for use as animal bedding all those tax-deductible wraps. Nor did this batch escape alteration.PETA marked the linings and sliced holes in the skins to minimize resale "marketability" while retaining warm-ability. This ensures "that people who weren't homeless wouldn't have any incentive to want one," say Byrne. This week PETA volunteers--some of them clad in raccoon, fox and rabbit costumes--will leaflet fur-swathed humans about the error of their ways. "We realize people have no idea how these animals suffer, how they are beaten or electrocuted or skinned alive," says Byrne. The hope is that education begets donation.To spread the word in downtown gridlock, PETA has bought ads on 20 DC pedi-cabs, those rickshaw-derived vehicles pulled by strapping young bi-peds. It's not clear what kind of reaction the protesters will elicit as Obama supporters dress and redress for multiple events that include church services, mass outdoor gatherings, black-tie balls, casual receptions, cocktails parties, and on and on and on. To be sure, millions who love this president love all God's creatures: designers, models, celebs, wanna-bes and just plain folk who to the PETA mantra that "Fur Is Dead." These folks who may have zero tolerance for anything made from animal products, leather included, and who may go so far as to insist on cruelty-free silk. Others have made nuanced calculations about what works for them.Sandra Nelson, a registered nurse from Gainesville, Va., is s a quiet convert."I love real fur but once you get a puppy it's hard to wear it anymore. Besides, they make coats now that look so real, that are so warm and that are affordable," she says, fighting the cold in a black Albert Nipon coat lined in thick polyester.Lawyer and government contractor Tiffany Brown of nearby Potomac, Maryland wore a striking, floor length 1940s faux leopard that was cut like a hostess gown: "It's high-style and not real. I love that," she says. However, she also owns a fox jacket her father gave her.Tiffany BrownTangela Lamptey is another paradox, a fur-wearing vegan. But the Altanta-based Continenal Ailines flight attendant is totally thrilled with the yummy pink sweater, woven much like Brinker's shawl, that she found on a run to China."I bought it because I like it, and I liked the fact it wasn't real. But I also brought my grandmother's mink to Washington because I was afraid of the frigid weather.""Fur is still popular, but it's not hot," says the Washington Post's Robin Givhan, winner of the first Pulitzer ever awarded for fashion writing. "It's not something that was on all the runways the way it was a couple of years ago, when Dolce and Gabana did a whole collection of fur skirts, dresses and handbags. But it's definitely still alive and well and it's still a healthy industry."Well, maybe not that healthy, given the current economy and the last couple of warmish winters, though certainly not in AIG or Chrysler territory either."Fur is suffering the same fate as luxury apparel, but it's been a very cold winter, and across the country our retailers report getting calls from people going to the inauguration," said Keith Kaplan, who heads the L.A.-based Fur Information Council of America.The Obama presidency, he notes, comes amid a shift in consumer demographics. "African-American women have been representing a larger volume of fur sales because of growing affluence in the community, and because of the effect of that whole urban look, for men, too. It's the bling thing." In 2002, says Kaplan, fewer than 17 percent of fur buyers were African-American. By 2006, the figure had jumped to nearly 27 percent. PETA continues undaunted, despite last year's apparent failure to rehabilitate chronic serial fur-wearer Aretha Franklin.In return for paying $19,000 in back taxes that the diva owed in late March, thereby saving her Michigan home from the repo man, PETA wanted her to forsake fur forever and give the group every last one of her over-the-top coats."Oh yes, Aretha and her golden sable,"chuckles Kaplan. "She has quite a hefty closet but she turned them down.""Will we ever get to the point that we realize that we will be more secure when the rest of the world isn't living in poverty just so we can have nice running shoes?" > > > > > > >

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