You may or may not have read my odd little posts on the new Burberry campaign. You probably didn't. But my general reaction to this campaign was that I thought it was bizarre. I wasn't horrified. Turns out some other music-types were asked to be included in past and present Burberry campaigns, including The Holloways and The Rakes, and they told them to shove it (but in a politer way - you can read Alan Donohoe's rejection letter here ), because of their continual use of real fur. To be honest I wasn't even aware of Burberry's position on fur and the processes they go through to get it. I'm not going to go all political or curse shame on the people who were involved in the campaign, it's possible they didn't know since they weren't asked to drape themselves in rabbit, but I just think that's disgusting.
So Hannah Fur is anti-fur. Oh the curse of a name!
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deana24
- 2007-11-01 @ 21:27:43
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hannahfur
- http://www.finetune.com/user/hannahfur
- 2007-11-02 @ 17:27:37
I was actually thinking of going vegan for a month to try it out, but I think I might die of starvation because I doubt I would eat anything.
But the fur thing - I dunno, it's just gross. It looked better on the animal and when there's artificial fur that looks and feels the exact same there really is no point in electricuting rabbits for the real stuff.-
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deana24
- 2007-11-03 @ 23:27:31
If you do try vegan-world you are certainly going to have to welcome vegetables, fruit, rice and nuts into your life. Of course there is always plain chocolate. It's a hardcore existence but there's another step. I read somewhere Lenny Kravitz is a fruitarian, only eats stuff that falls off trees and bushes, nothing ripped out of the ground. Maybe just avoiding food which involves making animals miserable is a good first step. See how you feel with that first.
I'm with you on the fur thing. Anyone who wears fur is, in effect, condoning the methods used to obtain it. Demonstrating insensitivity to the suffering of innocent animals really isn't attractive.-
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hannahfur
- http://www.finetune.com/user/hannahfur
- 2007-11-04 @ 15:58:51
I first heard about fruitarians in that film Notting Hill and I thought it was a joke. But then in RE we were doing about all of this kind of stuff and my teacher said she knows a (very thin) fruitarian. How do you even know the fruit you're eating has naturally fallen off the tree? Would you have to grow everything yourself to make sure?
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deana24
- 2007-11-05 @ 20:16:54
I think we're skipping along the cusp of sanity here and the fact Lenny Kravitz is involved should be enough to pull us back from the edge. If that's not enough to raise concerns, wikipedia mentions some fruitarians believe it mimics the diet of Adam and Eve. We can rebrand it as The Eden Diet. Has anyone told Grazia magazine/the Olsen twins/sundry bandwagon hopping b-list starlets?
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hannahfur
- http://www.finetune.com/user/hannahfur
- 2007-11-06 @ 16:58:51
I'm quite suprised this hasn't become a new fad now you mention it - those stars willing to do anything to be skinny can use the excuse "well nothing's fallen from the tree yet" not to eat.
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deana24
- 2007-11-08 @ 08:23:13
Give it time.
I predict it will be closely followed by the Fresh Air Diet and accompanying mock-outrage from the glossies as Posh's PR machine releases the news she is now a dress size -4. -
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I've read your Burberry comments with interest and it's made me look at their ads in a new light. i hadn't recognised anyone in the adverts till you pointed it out.
Burberry went through a rocky spell post chav-fandom and the company is now being turned around by some guru whose name escapes me. That means no to wall-to-wall burberry check in ads, but 'yes' to lots of 'models' picked to excite the interest of young people, just like you with lots and lots of disposable income/access to student loans very soon.
Of course where people stand on fur is a personal issue. You could look at leather, question eating meat at all. And what about dairy farming? Being kept perpetually pregnant or pumped full of hormones is no fun for a cow and that's how they keep providing that milk. You can question honey production (those bees do get crushed when the honeycomb is removed from hives). I guess it's where you draw the line and whether your line is so deeply drawn it creates a barrier between you and the person who crosses it. For whatever reason. Money. Ignorance. Indifference. None of them sound that appealling, maybe I missed one.
Sorry, rattled on a bit - but very interesting...