Do u wear UGGS?

Will u boycott them 2 save the sheep?


Will u stop wearing them?


Do u fell sorry 4 the millions of sheep?


PAWS takes aim at Ugg boots


Photo by Staff


The Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) stages a protest on the Frist North Lawn against the use of animal skins for clothing. PAWS Vice-President Alex Barnard '09 lies in the snow wearing a fur coat covered in fake blood to demonstrate his opposition to animal cruelty. Defying February’s climatic dictates, students lay in the newly fallen snow on the Frist Campus Center’s North Front Lawn on Friday afternoon, feigning death, wearing coats covered with fake blood and sporting signs that read, “What if you were killed for your coat?”


The protest, based on a campaign started by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and organized by the Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), was designed to raise awareness of animals’ suffering as part of the fashion fur industry. The protest focused on Ugg boots, which are made from sheepskin and are popular among college-age women.





In addition to Uggs, which are openly noted as derived from animals, fur marked as fake may not actually be, PAWS vice president Alex Barnard ’09 explained, adding that clothing imported from China is often unregulated, and recent studies indicate that cat and dog fur may be mislabeled as “faux fur.”





PAWS hopes to address these issues and change people’s perceptions of fashion through the protest.





“We want people to realize that fur, whether it is fake or real, is just ugly, and there’s no reason to wear it at all,” PAWS president Jenny Palmer ’09 said.





Princeton is an ideal place for the protest because of fur’s association with social status, Barnard said. “There is a lot of wealth here,” he explained. “There are people who wear animal products here because they can afford them.”





While PAWS members see demonstrations such as last Friday’s as pivotal to awakening activism on campus, some students see the protests as unnecessarily graphic.





Aly Lopez-Aguiar ’09 noted that while she agrees with PAWS’ mission to decrease the use of fur in fashion, the use of fake blood was “excessive,” she said. “If somebody sees something that graphic, they’re going to be turned off of the issue itself,” she explained.





Palmer, however, defended the use of provocative images.





“There’s always a risk [of offending people],” she said. “Sometimes there’s a lot of apathy; we need to have these shocking images to force people to recognize that the clothes they choose to wear have an impact on animals’ lives.”





Public protests reach a wider audience than the speakers, educational programs and other events that PAWS sponsors, Palmer explained. Protests like the one at Frist aim to alert the public to see the controversy over fur as a “wider issue,” she said.





While such demonstrations are perfectly within PAWS’ right to free speech, the graphic nature of the protest might give a negative impression to prospective students and people trying to get a sense of the University, Haley Thompson ’11 said.





“There are a lot of people [who saw the demonstration] who aren’t students here, and they might find it offensive,” Thompson explained.





For Thompson though, wearing Uggs remains a personal decision, much like being a vegetarian. “You do the same thing when you sit down and eat a hamburger,” Thompson noted. “I don’t feel like it’s all that different, and I’m not a vegetarian.”





Seeing the demonstration did not change her mind, she added. “I’m still going to wear my Uggs.”





There should be limits, however, to personal choice, Palmer said. “We appreciate the right of people to make their own choices up to the point where it affects others,” she said.





Because animals may be crammed into cruel slaughterhouses and gassed, decapitated or electrocuted, however, individuals must be especially conscious of the implications of their clothing decisions, Palmer said.





“People don’t have the right to cause that kind of pain, even if they choose to,” she explained.





Barnard said he hopes, however, that the event caused people to reflect on their fashion choices. “If just a few people are affected by it, it’s a success,” he said. “Just a few people can make a difference.”

Do u wear UGGS?
but there soooo comfy
Reply:I hate uggs


any loser that wears them should be tortured liek the sheep were
Reply:i wear them


but when i bought them i didn't really know how they treated the sheep and what they were made of


however i wouldnt buy them again
Reply:I dont wear them because I live in florida . Its super hot overhere.





http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
Reply:Ew. Why the hell would they kill


sheep to make those hideous


things.
Reply:ugh..





i hate uggs all the "preps" started wearing them then everyone followed %26lt;.%26lt; getting so sick of seeing them already T_T
Reply:I don't wear Uggs because they are not warm enough for where I live.


Vegans are insane, sorry.


God gave us all of the animals to use waaaay back in Genesis. YOU might be ok with refusing his gifts, but I'M not.
Reply:I H8 UGGS I FEE SO BAD FOR THE ANIMALS!!!! IVE NEVER WORN THEM AND I NEVER WILL, AND THERE U-G-L-Y
Reply:i wear uggs


i really care about the sheep


but there are millions of them


and plus uggs are so comfortable
Reply:WHAT THE F--- is with all these frikken UGG questions all of a sudden.





AGAIN, THE SKIN THEY USE IS A BIPRODUCT OF THE SHEEP KILLED FOR LAMB AND MUTTON.


As in, they kill the sheep for the meat, then say "Hmmm, since it's already dead, lets just be resourceful and use the skin, too. Instead of wasting the rest of the sheep,"





Oh, and if you aren't vegetarian, just SHUT UP.
Reply:i actually do have a pair and i am aware that theyre made out of sheepskin. ive been wondering why they havent been on the news just because they use sheepskin.





but anyways, if you wanted to know, probably more than half of the girls in my school want uggs or have uggs
Reply:just nod your head, lyndsey, nod your head
Reply:if i were richer......yes
Reply:i wear them. its not like the sheep have lives to work in buisness offices. animals are in this world for us. did you ever see a sheep in school.... i dont think so. i hate people who use dog fur because dogs help blind people, deaf and other disabled people. sheeps dont so who cares the sheep doesnt have a life like some people they only live for about 5 years.....why are people acting like we're using little 3 year old eye balls for animals? and yes i love animals but i do realize they dont have anything to live for
Reply:UGGs are really ugly and they kill sheep. I hate UGGs!





And hey everyone who likes UGGs, find new shoes that don't make your feet look like an elephant's. They are not cute or whatever, they are just ugly. I hope the sheep they killed to make your ugly boots kill you in your sleep.
Reply:hey. thanks for using a question to tell people about this!! i didn't know how uggs were made until a couple months ago when i saw a question like this. it makes my hart ache every time i remember all those sad videos that i've seen about uggs. so no i DON'T wear uggs and i do NOT plan on it. i can't believe how far some people will got just to make shoes
Reply:no i do not. they're hideous!





this question is way too long!!
Reply:Man, if only the sheep could talk and just kick those mean people that are killing them. Come on, whats happening? Animals have lifes too!!. :(
Reply:Of course they're made frm real sheepkin thats y i bought them so cute and comfy





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Reply:They're super gaudy and I would never wear them, but as for the saving sheep thing... I eat Gyros.... Yum....
Reply:omg they don't kill sheep to make uggs! if they did they wouldn't make any money.
Reply:I don't really care about the animals...


they are just ugly that's why i don't wear them..



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