Virgil Butler, the former slaughterhouse worker from Arkansas who dedicated his life to educating others about the horrors of factory farming, died last night in his sleep at the age of 41. Virgil spent 9 years working in Tyson slaughterhouses, killing as many as 80,000 birds a shift in extremely dangerous working conditions and for<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
After reading about Christina Ricci’s continued refusal to stop wearing dead animals (including, for God’s sake, reindeer), Dodger, the owner of Ricci’s biggest fansite, replaced all of the site’s information about her—including more than 900 photos—with PETA anti-fur ads and the following inscription: Offline due to fur usageWell, that’s it. I’ve had this Christina Ricci<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
So we just heard from Christina Aguilera that she has replaced the fox-fur stole she wears on stage with a faux-fur version after receiving a letter from PETA. Apparently, she had specifically asked her tour’s costume designer, Roberto Cavalli, to only use fake fur, but in a press release to Women’s Wear Daily, Cavalli bragged<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
Look out, ladies and gentlemen, here comes Madonna. In a £35,000 chinchilla fur coat. For those of you doing the math, that means Madge needs to have more than 60 furry animals electrocuted just to keep her warm on a Wednesday night—which means that if you’re planning on being anywhere near her U.K. residence this<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
I found this in The Oregonian this morning: Schumacher Furs & Outerwear, after 111 years of business and one solid year of fervent animal-rights protests, is hanging it up in Portland. … According to the article, Gregg Schumacher, who owned the place, was all whiney and sad about having to close down his store, but<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
Getty Images It’s that time of year again, when it starts to get a little bit colder and you can spot a select few of Hollywood’s trashiest celebrities strutting around with dead animals strapped to their backs. At PETA, we have far too much tact to name any of these people personally, but we would<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
Up until a couple of months ago, I had never heard of POM Wonderful, but apparently they’re this big company that sells pomegranate juice for like three times what any sane person should pay for a beverage that has no known alcoholic effects. If I’m going to pay five bucks for a drink, I want<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
Burberry, still reeling from PETA UK’s little visit to their London store last week, got another unpleasant surprise this afternoon when four activists showed up at their 57th Street store in New York. Here’s how it went down, according to one of the campaigners who was there: Two activists went in the store with posters<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
Pink, being awesome Pop singer Pink, who is currently my favorite person on the planet, went public with the information in a recent interview with the UK newspaper News of the World. Pink was understandably pissed off about the fact that Beyonce has animals violently killed so she can wear them around town. Here are<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
Mariah Carey If you have ever had the experience of losing a $7,500 coat that Mariah Carey gave you, you will sympathize with how difficult this past week has been for us. As with so many things these days, the whole chain of events was started off by a wealthy Russian oligarch. A big fan<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
Topshop, a hugely popular fashion retailer in the UK, just put together a beautiful window display in their flagship store in London, with a model wearing a teddy-bear coat, to remind people that wearing clothing made out of animals who have been tortured for their fur is as cruel as it is weird. Honestly, it’s<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
Marc Bouwer This little item was just on the British Vogue website. Celebrity designer Marc Bouwer has done so much for the animals who are used for clothing—and he’s at it again, this time taking a stand against the abusive treatment of sheep in the Australian wool industry: AMERICAN designer Marc Bouwer has announced that<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
As a connoisseur of haute couture, I love to see beautiful women on the catwalk at a fashion show. And as someone who cares about animals, I’ve always found it kind of sexy when they’re carrying huge signs that say “Fur Is Dead” and being dragged off that catwalk by security guards. During Fashion Week<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.peta.org/news/iin-memoriami-virgil-butler/" title="ReadIn Memoriam: Virgil Butler”> … Read more »
