The fur is bound to fly on this season’s American Idol, as tart-tongued judge Simon Cowell takes on a new crop of crooning contestants, while in real life, he believes in going fur-free. A vocal supporter of PETA’s anti-fur campaign, a smiling Cowell appears in a PETA ad holding a dog and saying, “If you wouldn’t wear your dog, please don’t wear any fur.”

Cowell wants consumers to know that each fur coat, collar, or cuff means that animals have been cruelly trapped, drowned, or beaten to death in the wild or gassed, strangled, or electrocuted on fur farms. PETA’s undercover investigation into the Chinese dog and cat fur trade showed that these horrors have been extended to animals just like the companion animals we share our own homes and hearts with. Cat and dog fur is often deliberately mislabeled as fur from other species and is exported to countries throughout the world to be sold to unsuspecting customers in retail stores. China supplies more than half the finished fur garments that are imported for sale in the United States, so the bottom line is this: If you’re buying fur, there’s no way to tell whose skin you’re wearing.

Faux fur or no fur is what’s in tune with treating animals with respect. With alternatives to fur available everywhere, there’s just no excuse for anyone to wear animals as decoration.

Source: PETA

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