PETA director of international programmes Mimi Bekhechi said the decision to end the campaign came after a "historic tipping point" had been reached. Kim Basinger was also among the first to share the message — and her daughter, model Ireland Basinger-Baldwin was the most recent. It's mine to do with as I please. And today, I'm using it to stand up for animals and their right to exist as they please — with their skin still attached, naturally. PETA, whose motto reads in part that "animals are not ours to wear", will continue to target fur in other ways such as its ongoing FurFreeBritain campaign and its protests against Canada Goose, which trims its parkas with the fur of wild coyotes caught in steel traps. However, PETA says it may still use nude celebrities in other campaigns. Founded in , Ecotextile News is the environmental magazine for the global textile and fashion industries and provides unrivalled daily coverage, comment and expertise in both print and online formats.
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To improve your visit to our site, take a minute and upgrade your browser. Protesters from the same group had interrupted an Elizabeth Warren event a few days earlier. Sanders stepped away from the podium and waved her off. Three other female protesters also rushed onto the stage, topless, and poured streams of fake blood over themselves from milk cartons—part sexy PETA ad, part Carrie. When I spoke on Wednesday night with Priya Sawhney, the woman who grabbed the mic at the Sanders event, and Matt Johnson, another member of the animal liberation group Direct Action Everywhere, I anticipated writing something kind of cheeky about the protests. They are, after all, deliberately and literally splashy: boobs and milk. The extraordinarily long primary season, which started out with such a broad spread of candidates, saw a blossoming of tiny, distinct bases with very specific issues of concern—some identitarian, some policy-based. Dairy Export Council. In the Senate, Elizabeth Warren co-sponsored the Dairy Pride Act, which would have limited the use of dairy-related terms to animal-based products, making products like soy milk and coconut butter go by some other, plant-specific names. Sawhney sees her work for animal rights as being an extension of, rather than in competition with, the fight for justice for all people.
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By Unity Blott For Mailonline. With the slogan 'Wear Your Own Skin' painted across their bodies, the activists encouraged passers-by to shun fur, leather, shearling, and other animal-derived materials as they stood outside The Store Studios, London on Friday. PETA Director Elisa Allen commented: 'Whether it's the fur of a frightened fox or angora rabbit or the skin of a gentle calf, it's not fabric and it's not ours for the taking. Taking over LFW: Activists encouraged passers-by to shun fur, leather, shearling, and other animal-derived materials as they stood outside The Store Studios, London.
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