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Monday, October 25, 2004

Fish are Food not Friends…

I was browsing MSN this morning when I saw an interesting (by interesting I mean asinine) article on Charlize Theron, who is now an advocate for the anti-fur community. Personally, I don’t really care that she is against the fur industry, I just her campaign is really stupid. The ad shows her next to a dog and then has a caption stating “If you wouldn’t wear your dog, please don’t wear any fur.” I find the ad itself pretty lame just because I don’t think you can compare Fido, the domesticated family dog, to the squirrels that he chases in your yard. Wouldn’t it be more logical to have an ad with Charlize Theron wearing a cotton coat with caption stating “Why would you condone the murder of an animal just to wear its pelt when you can buy a warmer cotton coat for half the money? Are you some kind of a pretentious fucking fashion whore?”
The advertisement doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the reasoning she gives for supporting said cause. She isn’t anti-fur because she realizes that there is no reason to slaughter animals now that synthetic materials are available. She is anti-fur because during her childhood her mother taught her “compassion for all animals”. Yeah, tell that to the fish that you ate for dinner and the eight cows that donated their hides so you could have that pretty leather interior inside your car. Even more importantly, tell that to the spider that you crushed the other day for no fucking reason other than it was crawling on your ceiling. After all, you have “compassion for all animals”.
Why is it that when celebrities pursue a cause more often than not they come off as total morons? Does the magical logic fairy show up at their doorsteps one day and just say “Hey, it seems as though you are famous; please place all of your rationality in this bag, you will have no more use for it”? Maybe that is why Ben Affleck’s movies have been so horrible as of late, perhaps he wouldn’t trade his common sense for a decent box office draw.

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