Madonna may have been last year’s top music moneymaker, but don’t count PETA as one of her fans.
The animal rights group placed the pop star at the top of their 2009 worst-dressed celebrities list, branding her the year’s “biggest fur offender.”
“When you see Madonna in fur, you realise why nobody has copied her style since 1984,” read a statement on PETA’s website. “We know that she’s on the prowl for a young cub, but someone needs to tell Madge that wearing fur doesn’t make you a cougar.”
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Pamela Anderson has declared Jessica Simpson a “bitch and whore.”
Anderson made her bold statements on an Australian radio station. Her anger comes after Simpson wore a shirt that read, “Real girls eat meat,” something that Anderson – a huge PETA supporter and vegetarian – couldn’t stand for.
Simpson’s shirt wasn’t intended to spark a feud with Anderson, but perhaps Carrie Underwood instead. Underwood used to date Simpson’s boyfriend, Tony Romo, and has frequently been on – and topped – PETA’s “Sexiest Vegetarian” lists.
Anderson, for her part, went on to tell the radio station why she was proud to be a vegetarian: “I think it’s healthy, good for your body and good for the environment.”
Pink is angering Australian officials with a new video she’s produced for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Pink is urging shoppers to boycott the country’s wool over the practice of “mulesing,” reports the BBC.
“I am calling on consumers to check labels on sweaters before buying them, and if they’re merino wool or made in Australia, to leave them on the racks,” the singer says.
Mulesing involves cutting strips of skin off the area around a sheep’s tail without the use of anaesthetic.
The process is meant to prevent myiasis, or “fly-strike,” in which fly larvae infest and feed on the skin. Though proponents of mulesing say it helps prevent death caused by the infestation, animal rights activists say it is cruel.
PETA says that humane alternatives to the process are available. Mulesing is illegal in the UK, and is expected to be phased out in Australia by 2010.
