December 22, 2008

Donna Karan

Donna Karan has announced that all her fall 2009 lines will be fur-free and that she has "no plans" to use fur in the future. Well done, everyone!

I'm sure that Donna Karan has never thought about any of this or soiled her yoga slippers wading in the muck on a rabbit farm: Rabbits are full of personality and fun, unless they don't know you and what you have in mind, in which case, they tend to be timid and wary. They certainly live on their nerves, every minute, on a fur farm, stuck in their filthy, smelly, grassless, cramped cages - denied any ability to dig or hop over the hills or play tag (which they do, with friends).

I've been to a rabbit farm, and I've watched them being butchered for fur and meat: As on many farms, the man in charge took the scared rabbits by the legs with one hand and cupped his other hand under their jaws and yanked. There was a popping noise. Rabbits don't die when their spines are separated; they are merely paralyzed and start to suffocate, gasping and in pain.

Well, Donna Karan will no longer be responsible for such horrors, and for that, I truly am thankful. I'm sure that you are, too, my friends. So happy holidays!

Posted by Ingrid E. Newkirk