When You See A Fur Coat, Speak Up! November 25, 2008

I did in school two people where wearing fur one wearing fur and leather.
I said is that dead flesh they said no, I said well i ment fur and in the end i found out they where wearing fake fur.

It funny that people still wur skin on there backs or on there heads.
Thanks From James

oh my gosh, I definately saw that same woman in Ghent on Saturday evening I think. Was it full length and dark brown? I just told her that her coat made her look like a wet dog (quote courtesy of miss CCC). so gross.

That's a fantastic sign idea Pulin!
And well done for last Saturday, it's wonderful that you can hold your temper with people like that.

I live in quite a deprived area so I've never seen anyone wearing a full-length fur coat.

However, anytime I see what could be fur-trim in a shop I go and check the label and then say in a loud voice "I'm so glad this isn't made from dead animals!" or "EEWWWW! It's made from dead animals, that's gross!" so all the customers can hear!

A lot of people at my school wear fur coats and they are a lot like that lady, they are very defensive and closed minded. I try to tell them and they just jump on my case. Doesns't mean I give up though.

Oh that's great.

Once, about one or two years ago, I was riding the metro on the way to work, and sitting in front of me was this woman in a huge, full-length fur coat. I kept quiet the entire time, until the train came to my stop. Then I stood up early, before everyone else, stared the woman up and down, and said to her "Just so you know, you look really stupid in that coat, it's really ugly and cruel." And she said something rude that I can't quite remember, but I know she didn't take kindly to me. She probably thought I was just some kid with stars in her eyes to have the nerve of telling a distinguished woman how dumb she looked in a fur coat. I didn't get a lot of attention, but I know the people sitting and standing nearby were listening, and a man sharing a seat with me just gave me a huge smile when I called the woman an idiot.

Okay I have one question: at my school all of the girls wear bear paw boots or uggs. I myself am a trend follower so I did indeed get a pair of Bear Paws. I do know that Uggs are made of real animal skin but are Bear Paws? Do they just shave off the top layer or kill them for the purpose of making Uggs? Thankyou, Jenn

that is pure genius!
I would have told that woman
off too! So many innocent animals
get hurt everyday and killed, but
that woman has no idea. :l hope
she likes wearin that for the rest
of her life. If you wear fur, you are
wearing death and an innocent animal
that did crap to you! :/

thats awesome =] good job woo haha lol i all ways go up to ppl that wear fur and do that kinda stuff one time i went up to this lady and was trying to talk to her about it i asked her why she would kill a animal by wearing its fur and she freaked out and she wanted to fight haha lol and she was like 30 and im only 16 so i was ok lets go out side and fight cuz we were in wall mart but one of the managers over heard what was happening and took her aside and made her leave it was funny gosh i wanted to chop off her skin and make a stupid ugly coat out of it stupid ppl

Jesus I mean atleast the lady and the guy didn't have to go all bi polar on you.

OMG! Thats SOOO great!! I don't see girls wearing fur that often at school so I don't have anyone to say stuff too. =[ BUT I did see this one chick at the mall and she had a full length fur coat on and OMG it was disgusting. I went up to her [even tho my mom yelled at me to stop] and said, "So you like supporting animal cruelty, huh?" and she said, "What?!" Like she was kinda offended but didn't understand what I meant. I went on to tell her about chinese fur farms and how cruel they are to cats dogs and rabbits just to make those hideous coats. She said "CATS AND DOGS!? Thats a lie. I don't believe you. Your just a dumb high school student who thinks she knows everything....." And went on to say MANY more rude things and stormed off. I said "BYE! I HOPE YOU ENJOY THAT DEATH AND CRUELTY YOU THINK YOU LOOK GOOD IN!" Yeaa,, kinda a dumb line but I was so furious of the things she said I couldn't think of a better comeback.LOL

Yesss, Pulin is likee thee bestt.
=]
Peoplee that wear fur are absolutlyy gross.
There just jerkss, then turn around and call us assholes?
Yeahh rightt, we actully care about the life of animals.
&& were just trying to make a pointt.
They act like thayy dont know what happend to the poor dead animal they are whareing.
When theyy do, there just playing stupiedd.
There so dumb, i cant stand some peoplee.

It's this kind of extremism that make people despise PETA members. I doubt you influenced her life as more than just a mild irritation, and in no way made a positive contribution to her knowledge. Furthermore, I doubt she cared.

I go to the Woodfield mall with my friends all the time, and in Macy's, there's a giant all-fur section. Every time we go, we ask an employee inside it if they use real fur. And every time they say yes, we all roll our eyes, storm out talking about how disgusting it is and literally shuddering. Every time, a few people leave. I think last time we counted seven! it's not that many, but it's saving a life every time. Fur is disgusting. Once, my cousin gave me a real fur cell-phone charm shaped like a raccon, and I said, Oh how cute! The dead skin is trying to look like it's former self. She got sooooo mad, but it was worth it.
Nice job on the sign, by the way! how mad was she?

i have NEVER seen anyone wearing fur wear i live besides what they get at our walmart so i cant really speak out but i do agree that fur is completely wrong and more people need to speak out about fur..

thats really great!
haha, i do the exact same thing as Little_Lotte whenever I see fur in a store, its awesome :D

anyways, to whoever said that this was extreme, uh...wth?!? Whats extreme (or extremely stupid) is the way people treat other living thing out of their own selfishness :\

anyways, super excited for Fur Free Friday!!!! I'll be out there protesting :)

I don't think I would be able to keep myself from getting angry and yelling back, to be perfectly honest with you. However, I did admire your handling of the situation and your efforts to get through to them. I see a ton of girls around my town with those ugly fur boots on and it makes me sick. They look pretty stupid.

Excellent! I would have told that cruel woman how horrible fur is too!

well its noyt realy the best idea to be to extrem cause its given peta a bad name .

but i do things kinda like that . one time i was looking for something that looked kinda like uggs that were fake . and i ask the guy at the store if emu was real or fake and he sayd it was real so im like "why do people kill animals for this???poor animal" then i akt all sad for the animal .

i made a guy cry today at school
he had the cheek to wear his real rabbit fur hat to school again after i had told him how awful it is

OMG! PPL BEARPAW IS LEATHER AND WOOL, SO THEY KILL THE POOR CoWIE!

Nice. Next time I see someone wearing real fur, I'll definitely ask them if they like dogs or cats while I eye their cruel coverage, then walk away suprised looking.

Haha,
nice one (Y)
I have always complained about the girls wearing UGG's in my school, do they honestly need to have lamb wool to keep warm.
Me myself i have boots that look like UGG's but are fake and dont have fur inside.
And it was much cheaper,
you save money and an animal.
They just dont realize it .

Somebody I knew at school was wearing a fur coat. I asked her if it was real and she said no. I asked her if I could check and she said no. I told her about the fur industry and what they did to the animals and bugged her about it all day. She hasn't worn it since.

Wonderful! I love how you handled the situation! I've done that to a few people. Once, I saw a man wearing leather, and his wife/girlfriend wearing a full-length fur coat. I walked up to the couple and asked in a somewhat sarcastic/impressed voice, "Is that REAL FUR?" (This really disgusted me) she twirled around and said "Oh, of course!" I said in the same voice "So you're wearing a dead animal! I'm so impressed!" She said "What are you talking about?" Obviously, this couple was uninformed. I gave them a few leaflets, and I educated them on the chinese torture farms. They looked disgusted. Then they promised to never wear fur again. They thanked me, and walked away.

that's brilliant idea!
always if i see that someone wears fur i tell to that person how awful he/she is. that is disgusting if someone wears fur.

Today at school a girl was wearing a rocca wear coat she thought she was all cool with her coat, lined with the fur of a dead animal, with the fur puff balls.And i politely asked her if her coat was real fur. She snarled back at me like i had inslted her and said If it was any of your buisness i would say yes this is real fur and im proud of it. I then proceeded to tell her that it became my buisness when she decided to put on her coat this morning.She told me I was being idiotic and theres nothing wrrong with wearing it.I told her alll the things that animals had to go through to be her "fashionable coat". She called me many name such as fruit loop and other unmentionables. I said she was uninformed and quite clueless. She tried to start a fight and took aswing at me .I dont say that violence is akright but if i have to fiht to defend myself and the animals to do it i will

P.S. I won :P

once when i was shopping with my mom we ran into one of her friends and they started talking. soome how they ending up walking into some fur coat store with me unwilllingly tagging behind. well as i stood there disgusted i realized that there were a couple emlpoyee store computers sitting around for customer service i guess. and i just happened to leave a different peta video on each and every one of them and clamly walked out of the store. i dont know how many people saw or what but it gave me satisfaction

nice one.
fur coats always make me think about silence of the lambs actually

That is completely sickening,

No one likes to have other's views forced on them; please be respectful.

EWW! Fur is sooo gross! all the kids wear Uggs, and I always tell them how cruel it is to the poor animals! Ugg is the sound I make when I see them. Ugg-ly!

I think that was really rude you could have said somthing nicely. That makes a few more people who HATE peta. Good job.

hahaha thats funny.
omg there was this one time when my grandma wanted to buy me a leather coat. i KNOW i told her every thing about what they do and how sometimes there skined alive and skin is for cave men. of course she yelled at me but i yelled back. i would rather die then to wear leather >:D

I told some girls in my school who had a jacket with fur. I told them to watch videos from the fur industry, since then 3 of them didn't wear it anymore, the last 1 is to bitch to give up her ugly jacket. Haha. I think that they even got their money back after they went back to the store and leaved the jacket there. I also saw a lady with a fur scarf.. and i screamed at her: "Don't you have a own skin to hide that fat neck?" Pretty rude but.. it's for the animals. Fur is for animals for sure! :)

Today I was actually walking downtown at this early Christmas celebration with my family, and this man walked out of this building with a HUGE fur coat on! I got really angry and glared at him when he passed. The coat was huge and long, and I was peeved. I wanted to say something SO badly, or kick him were it hurt, but I held in my anger because he was passing by really quickly.
But he should NOT model that kind of thing for his children! >:[

I like to have excessively loud conversations next to the individuals waring fur about how cruel and disgusting it is. Im sure it would be better if i talked directly to them, but i have issues with speaking with people i dont know so its easier for me to get the message across indirectly. I continue until they look at me so i know they heard me. I also like to stick anti-fur stickers on fur coats when the wearers arent looking or on store windows that have fur clothing.

haha thats jokes.

im a veggie ! x

i hate ppl who wear reel fur and it pisses me off ILL DEFINATELY SPEAK UP

this makes mee laugh.XD
she probly would unknowingly wear a dog.
D":
its sad to think that animals suffer for stupid vanity reasons.

My mom doesn't let me go to protests like Fur Free Friday.:( But a lot of people wear Uggs at my school. And I told them once that it was made out of baby sheep. One girl was like "Blame the Austrailians they made them" I said "Yes, but you bought them" She got sooooo mad!!!! Her AIM message now is "Well I like uggs so people if you dont like them then dont be aganist them."

wooow you must think your really cool harassing people. and so many of you wonder why people hate Peta.

that sign is hilarious. to all the whiners, sure, harassing people over eating meat may be a little much because hey, the majority of people are raised into that. BUT verbally destroying a person for wearing a dead animal on their back is just as rude as wearing the fur in the first place. so either way, it's pretty much even.

who gives a damn if people hate peta? i thought we were acting to protect animals, not to make friends.

i have definitely caught the attention of a few people strutting around in the mall wearing fur by calling them disgusting. personally, i think their looks of shock and responses loaded with rudeness are quite hilarious. idiots.

for the people commenting on here about why people hate peta, it's because those people are completely closeminded and don't like to admit they're wrong. whether or not people hate peta, peta is going to keep doing what they're doing. and they should. it's called freedom of speech.

when i see people wearing fur i yell

"FURR IS MURDERR"

;)

I've stopped a few people that I've seen wearing fur. I ran after one lady to catch up with her. I handed her a leaflet, which she actually read. She then tried to tell me that it was fake. It was a fur vest and you could TELL it was real bunny fur. But at least she kept the leaflet.

I love doing fur protests. I wish we had one down here where I moved, but we didn't. They're the best way to get the message out to large numbers of people.

-kate.

uhh yeah i hate wen ppl wear fur!! it pisses me off so badly like this one time me and my mommy were at the grocey store and this guy came out with a bloody apron on and i was like well some people are dicks to my mom loud enough were the guy could hear it and then i looked at the meat and was like thats fucking disgusting and so then he came up to me and was like its my job and i was like oyeah so your pretty much getting paid to murder animals that didnt do anything to you and then he just looked at me wierd and i was like would u murder a human and he was like no but... and i was like well my point was proven then i told him to go have fun killing innicoint animals and have a god day lol now whenever he sees me he aviods me=]

I went into american eagle and they had fur coats all over. I was immediately disgusted and I went up to the counter and I asked them why they thought it was alright to sell fur inside of their store. They said, "well if you don't like it you don't have to shop here." I replied with a simple your right I don't, and neither me nor my friends will shop here until you remove the fur out of here. They just muttered well we won't loose business. For the rest of the day I walked around the mall telling people not to go inside of american eagle because they sold fur. Many of them were disgusted and stayed away from the store. I was so proud of myself. :) :) fur is murder!

These replies come from some of the most obviously uneducated people out there. When responding to something like this you don't want to sound like an idiot with horrible spelling or grammar.

That being said I %100 agree with how you handled the situation. Some people say that its making PETA look bad or forcing ideas on to someone but I see it as far from that. You didn't lose your temper or raise your voice. Just trying to give people some information to help them make a more informed decision. People who are against PETA act as if PETA is still at the stage of pouring red paint or blood onto people wearing fur. Now that is an immature way to go about things that I would far from support.

In many of the "free" countries of the world we have the privilege to make our own decisions. Which awards the liberties for people to eat meat or wear fur if that is their choice. But what can be done is educating these people to what their decisions really mean, that way a true educated decision can be made. Nobody forced being a vegetarian on me, I just came across the information a few years ago and made what I think to be a wise decision. Granted I still do eat fish, I make the attempts not too but my body can't quite fully adjust to that. And the fish that I do eat are line-caught only and not from fisheries. Go PETA!

can i steal your idea for the sign?
! i love it !

when i see people wearing fur or leather, fake or not, i go up to them and ask them why they're wearing a dead animal. even if it's fake, i'll ask them why they're supporting it.
my mom usually yells at me, but that hasn't stoped me yet.

Good job! You need to tell them what's up.

your mi hero =D

I wear FAKE fur and make sure it's FAKE before I buy it. I have pet bunnies at home and seeing them makes me think twice about what I put in my mouth and what I put on my body. I refuse to eat in certain restaurants and shop in certain stores. Why should anyone contribute to eating or wearing cute defenseless animals. Dead animals need love to, but they shouldn't be dead because of MURDER and CRUELTY!

That is so amazing keep up the good work!
To be part of Peta is my dream job.
:)

I say something like: "Why are you wearing dogs? I'd rather wear lettuce! Don't wear fur!" and then if they wear fur again the next day. I'll take a picture of them doodle on it and hand it to them.

Last winter, we used to go up and politely inform people that they were wearing real fur. A lot of people actually had no idea--cheap, real fur collars are very, very common here. Most people responded pretty politely, though we had a few idiots screaming and picking fights. We retaliated in kind, which in retrospect wasn't the smartest thing to do.

Well done. Yet another person who is making people think that PETA is just a bunch of angry extremists who jump to conclusions and act as if they are better than everyone else.

A girl I go to college with has a real fur coat, I don't feel the need to tell her it's disgusting, everyone knows real fur is wrong now anyway.

Also, I wear a fake fur coat, but after reading some of the comments on here, I'd be frightened to wear even that. You should be ashamed for yelling at peole in your High School corridors and in the street. You never know the full story just by looking.

I agree with your comments and your actions but I also have the thought, "If you've already bought it and worn it, why waste an animal just by throwing the coat out?"
I would NEVER buy leather or fur though, if I accidently bought a leather watch or something, I wouldn't through it out, I'd use it until it fell apart.

I sympathize with all of you. But reading some responses, I'm left very discouraged. Everyone has a right regardless of what it is and if they choose to wear a fur coat, so be it. All we can do is educate them NICELY. Calling them out in a rude or ignorant manner will only make you look like a fool and weaken the cause. Be respectful to people and don't attack them because when you do you make your cause look bad.

Hi I am not a fan of peta but I do believe in being humane and kind to animals, I am aginst fur coats also but for diferent reasons I was born into a hunting family and we were always told you dont kill anything just for its skin or antlers you use it all and I have never seen anyone eat a mink . I think the fur coats are a joke just to show someones status.

I went to the movies the other day and this woman sat down right beside me and she was wearing a long fur coat. so I turned to my mum and said lets move over there because I don't sit by dirty pieces of shit. my mum told me off but I don't care and the woman gave me evils!! stuff her bitch

I am totally against the cruelty of animals and i am appalled by those who wear fur! But I don't think the way you handled it was good at all. Forcing it upon people doesnt work by any means. You should let people know in a compassionate way! These people who buy fur are either uninformed or don't care, so either way being rude about it wont work...and I know this from experience.

Firstly I do not wear or advocate the wearing of fur of any sort and I'm glad that organisations such as PeTA exist.

However going up to someone in the street and shouting and swearing at them is nothing more than harassment. Its not going to make them change their ways and is more than likely going to result in you getting some form of abuse back.

Also judging by the majority of the above posts, it seems to be mostly very young people approaching members of the public in an aggressive way. The coffee shop scene was a far more amicable way of drawing attention to the PeTA message, whilst coming out the bigger person

More attention needs to get drawn into mediums such as national press, television etc.

Although it all boils down to our right to protest it, and these person's right of deciding on their own accord to wear it.

I don't know if anyone on here watches the office...
but on last week's episode, michael got a bonus from work.
with his extra cash, he went to burrlington coat factory to buy a coat.
as he's talking about buying his fur coat, he is sitting in front of the camera with it on.
(i was disgusted that he was wearing it, of course)....BUT
then the camera pans down and you see red paint splashed across the front.
it turns out there was "one of us" in front of burlington coat factory that threw fake blood on his coat!

i thought it was kinda cool that their main character, who is basically made to be the biggest idiot in the world, went to buy a coat because HE thought it was good. and then that happened.

one of the characters, angela, is also a vegetarian on the show.

i agree that fur is wrong but yelling at people or forcing your beliefs on them is wrong and unfair in any situation, it does in fact weaken the cause and make people think your just crazy, it pisses me off when people in my family harass me about being vegetarian but i dont harasss them about eating meat i try to make it easier to switch and educate them nicely.

Heya, good thing you did that!

I'm 13 years old and I fight for all animals to keep their fur where 'god' has put it. When I was 10 years old, My best friends mom brought her home a coat made of fox fur. I immediately looked at it and shook my head. The parents of this girl asked what was wrong, as this was supposed to be a birthday present, my friend had not seen it. I didn't answer for a bit and then said nothing. When my friend opened the present that night, she spoke of how soft the fur was and such... i immediately blurted out. " But it's a foxy." and she began to cry. She screamed and threw a fit at how her parents had hurt the foxy. Eventually the parents of this girl took the coat back and exchanged it for something... less furry per say.

I'm slowly going vegetarian, and I don't wear fur, but like in the summer I accidently got a leather belt. I'm still using it, but I'll be sure to check next time.
Also I laughed at how you handled it, I would totally do that, but in my town you get in trouble with the police so easily.
So we don't try.
But with the uggs, I hate them too, they're ugly, couldn't they find a fur free fashion?
Anything with faux fur, I'm gonna start my own animal-cruelty free trend (:

Myspace.com/kaybayyyy

I am very proud of you
someone needs to outlaw the use of real fur in clothing
Bell

i went to the fashion show at the clothes show today and models were wearing fur. so i shouted boo and murderer. i wanted to cry :'(
LOTS AND LOTS OF FULL LENGTH COATS!!!!!!!
evil? yes!

I agree that wearing fur is incredibly inhumane, but whose mind did you really change by harassing that woman? To be honest, most of these comments are written people who seem to get satisfaction out of annoying people for their own self-promoting reasons.
Some people have posted that they are actually DISAPPOINTED that they haven't seen anyone wearing a fur coat recently because they can't do ridiculous things like making rude signs or "educating" people. So let me get this straight, you WANT someone to wear a fur jacket so that you can feel good about yourself???? Who are you looking out for- animals or yourself?
By telling someone sarcastically that their jacket is murder, and continually insulting them, are you really helping any animals?
PEACE and LOVE people!
THIS is why many people HATE PETA.
Treat everyone nicely, children.
:]

whenever i go to toronto i always explain to people who are wearing fur that it is an animal and its like me walking around with there skin as a jacket just because it adds "class" but it really doesnt it looks disgusting. I have had people thank me for doing this. Hopefully i have changed there mind about buying fur or any kind of animal product.

I hope that the man who called Pulin an asshole realizes that his wife is more than likely to be WEARING an ass.

How's that for ironic?

While reading this article, I discovered the Martha Steward fur video and was shocked to see how...I can't even find a work to describe how ugly that video was and how sick to my stomach I am now. I'm vegan, and a huge animal lover. I have see and been introduced to how horrific the food industry is through PETA videos, but I can say that I have never been exposed to a fur video. I don't understand why I've never come across this.

I am OUTRAGED that this is unregulated industry operating within the United States. I mean everything is regulated in the United States.

Thank you for educating others in my behalf. Thank you for stepping in when others felt could not or were not brave enough to do so, I feel like some one else who might not have been as brave would have faltered in taking a stand against people like that due to their abrasive nature.

I did one of my close friends borrowed her mom's coat it happened to be leather....and these girls wear coats with fur trim. My friend knows i dont like fur OR leather!

thank god where i'm at it's texas!
there's no need for fur coats, unless your stupid. :)

I agree wholeheartedly with the poster 5 previous to myself. There is a difference between educating people on the downsides to buying animal products and being rude and preachy. There is a good reason why many people hate PETA: it's because spoiled, self righteous young girls (and boys) ruin their positive message by spreading it in the wrong way.

No one is going to take the message seriously if you don't deliver it like a responsible, intelligent adult.

The bottom line is that it's a choice. It's unfortunate that some people aren't bothered by the fur industry, but right and wrong is not black and white.

Last week, I was with my Fiance' at Olive Garder... We were sitting on the green couches waiting to be called for our table. When the door swung open, a woman walked in. She wore a long, full-length coat or Mink (I think) and a hat that matched. As she went up to the desk and announced her reservation area, we lifted our brows.

Despite his reqests to sit silently, I got up. Sliding up next to her I looked interested. "Wow, is that real?"
She gave me a snooty, 'Im all THAT' look saying, "yes..."
I replied, "Oh, must've cost you a pretty penny huh?" She nodded as if she was annoyed of me. "Someone like me would have to save all their life or sell their soul for that kinda' thing..." I smiled.
She stuck her nose in the air, "I'm sure it would.."
I grinned, "Well, I'm sure it cost them animals just that... their lives."
She looked stunned like I just poured paint on her or something. "Excuse me?"
Luckily, they called our number just at that time - I simply walked away smiling and such with my arm around my Fiance's. "You can hear them screaming now can't yah'?" I muttered.
She was bright bright red, it was funny - she slid her coat and hat off... And I never saw her ever again... I think maybe I hit her with something.

Well done to all people on this list who are against fur!!! Although I bet half of you eat meat. If your going to be against fur, you need to be a vegan too. Just to say I love all of the activists on this list.
Also - why do some people just come on here to call us extremists? If you ever see a negative comment from someone who eats meat, or is for animal testing, stuff like that - remember that they are only syaing gay things to us because they know that they are wrong and that we are mentally superior!! VEGANS RULE THE EARTH!!

Today. My sister decided to have a little get-together with a few of her friends. They came over to the house.. And to my surprise they were ALL wearing fur.
I asked " Is that fur real? " and everybody in my school knows that I am an animal rights activist.
These little girls wanted to be smart so they got cocky.
" Oh why yess. I watched them kill it myself. It was sooo divine. " one of the girls said.
" Yes there was blood everywhere " said another.
" Mine was made in one of those chinese factories where they torture them! "
They were all acting like they had some form of wealth about them.

I tried to reason with them but all was lost.
until I spoke up with a slightly angered voice.
" You know. I hope one day you wear a coat made from your own dogs fur. And dont realize it until you see that one spot on him that you loved so much"

After that I went to my room. A little harsh but I got the point across.

Good for you!! I recently saw a woman wearing fur and I held up my no fur pin so she would see it. My sister saw a woman in a store wearing fur and she told her that she looked ugly.

So let me get this straight... you started whining at some people on the street about something that is not really your business, and then posted a blog on the internets when they didn't immediately bow to your demands and kiss your rear?

I understand that people can have opinions, but I also understand that I want to be left the hell alone by people who just want to cause trouble for no reason when I'm going about my day.

Signed, a leather wearer.

ong i did that today there was a girl in my class wearing real fur boots an d i told her what they do to the aniamls and she went and changed her shoe!

Sweetness! But for all the comments where they say they called people dumb for wearing fur, could've been a bit more...tactful. Just because someone wears fur does not make them dumb or a bad person. Simply ignorant of what went into making that garment. There is a proper way to express your personal beliefs in a polite and fair manner. If someone had different religious beliefs than you, would you call them dumb? I shoud hope not. Its the same principle. There are ways to get your point across, without being offensive.

talking to people like that sounds a little mean, and i understand why the husband got mad at you, because you shouldn't judge people by fur wearing. you should have told her about the horrors about fur because most people who wear fur haven't seen what the animal's they're wearing have been through.
in other words some people just need to learn about animal abuse and OTHER people need to learn how to be more courteous :)

I would love to do this this to people in new york

About a year ago I worked at a gourmet grocery store as a bagboy in a rather wealthy area of town. About two months after starting that job, customers started coming in with fur coats and scarves. I would always ask if the fur was real, and if so I promptly walked away during the middle of bagging their groceries. But this is where I got in trouble. I was bagging for the manager one day and a lady with a FULL LENGTH FUR COAT came into the line. Of course, I asked if the fur was real. My manager realed around, stared at me with a look of death, and when the lady said "yes, its real", I walked away like always. Well, my manager repeadedly apologized to the customer and started rationalizing "oh hes just a vegan, dont worry about him" and my manager even went so far as to complement the lady on the fur coat! I went over to the customer and my manager and said "Don't you ever try to rationalize and deconstruct my morals for someone who wears tortured animals as clothing!"
Needless to say, I was fired that day, but I dont regret anything I said :)

wankers, all of you...bloody PeTA

"Jesus I mean at least the lady and the guy didn't have to go all bi polar on you."

Robert E Lee, I find this comment extremely offensive. Bipolar disorder is terrible. Using it as a derogatory remark about someone who behaved badly is simply ignorant. I'm bipolar, but I'm not a jerk to people like the fur-wearer was.

I think you need to do some research and find out what bipolar disorder REALLY is before you make stupid comments.

haha ur awesome. a teacher at my school has a gazelle as a 'bag'. ((more like a corpse to me)) but anyway, i put all my ant-fur peta stickers all over it lol yay! but she took them off

Well, today actually, I was shopping at the mall with my mom for some gifts, and I was wandering around, and I saw all these pom pom scarfs. There were kinda weird looking and they felt weird. So I looked to see what they were made out of, and it turns out that they were rabbit fur. The part that kinda ticked me off was that they were on sale, like that a bunny is worth less than 50 dollars. My mom saw them and thought that they were ugly scarfs. I wanted to say something to someone that worked there, but I didn't because I had to pick out a acrylic cotton scarf for my grandma, and a fleece scarf for my mom's co-worker. But it's just sad that you could tell that someone bought one of those scarfs, and I could only think that someone must really not care at all about the welfare of these rabbits because they bought a scarf. And to me, if you buy one of those scarfs, you're only contributing to the skinning and death of these poor creatures. And the weird part was after I putting it back on the rack, my hands felt really dirty for some reason. Maybe because rabbits fur isn't meant for anyone other than rabbits!

awesome, good on ya !

I am so saying something when I see someone wearing fur :)

woah.......thats a pretty gross thought,wearing a dead animal.
glad i hate uggs and loooove cotton hoodies :D

All animal cruelty aside fur still looks stupid. Even before I got onto animal rights I always thought people who wore fur looked like jack asses.

i'm glad that the people from my school are against fur. I see them asking people the same thing "is that real?"
i just laugh because i'm really happy

But i do know one person with rabbit fur on the hood of her jacket!
BOO. HISS.
She hasn't worn it in a while though because everyone keeps bothering her about it.

You people are so full of shit. You can't just let people wear what they want? You're disgusting. If you think you're going to stop people from wearing fur you're fucking stupid.
Harassing others isn't going to save animals, it's just going to hurt humans.

I was in blockbuster two nights ago and some woman came in wearing a full length fur coat and I could tell it was real. I was so angry that there were tears in my eyes and instead of saying something, I stormed out of the store and waited for my friends in the car. Next time I will speak up and not let my emotions get the better of me. It's disgusting and people should know what they are wearing.

It isn't the greatest idea to force your opinions on people when they don't want to listen. I don't like when people do it to me, and even though I'm crazy about animal rights, I won't do it to anyone either. I like to put anti-fur/leather stickers on the back of coats when the people aren't paying attention! xD

My principal weres real fur. I really want to throw something at her for wearing it but i would be in so much trouble. what do I do???

you guys are the biggest, most close-minded assholes on the face of this meat eating planet. how you people can bring yourselves to spontaneously go into cunt-animal-rights mode and ruin other's day by criticizing their attire is beyond me. please ide. every single one of you. eat meat. eat meat. eat meat.

I honestly don't even like wearing fake fur.
I felt really bad though when my friend got me a really expensive WOOL scarf and I didn't get her anything. Should I tell her I refuse to wear it or should I just donate it? I could really use your advice.

this is so stupid

the worst is when people wear fur and own ca