Will u boycott UGGS 2 save the sheep?

Y /y not?





do u think sheep should be killed?





PAWS takes aim at Ugg boots


By Rachel Dunn


Staff Writer





Respond to this Story Published: Monday, February 25th, 2008





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.

Will u boycott UGGS 2 save the sheep?
I totally agree.


However, there are many out there who don't.


I fully support PAWS for protesting animal cruelty, but sadly, I don't think that it will help, as a lot of people today are desensitized, and they care of nothing but themselves.
Reply:RIGHT ON!
Reply:HOWEVER MANY PEOPLE ARE POSTING QUESTIONS LIKE THESE, YOU NEED TO STOP NOW. You are just annoying people and we DONT CARE. There are many many many articles of clothing and other brands that use sheep hide/fur, BUT UGGS ARE ALWAYS ATTACKED. And dressing in a fur coat with blood all over it is 1) ridiculous and everyone sees what a pathetic fool you are 2) people aren't going to want to have anything to do with that shananigans and leave and 3) if you are wearing that fur coat, they have got to be in demand! even in protest, why would you dress yourself in what you are against.





And also, if you AREN'T A VEGETARIAN, you have NO BUSINESS POSTING THESE TYPES OF QUESTIONS BECAUSE YOU ARE THEREFORE A COMPLETE HYPOCRITE. If you don't like the way these sheep are treated then you probably wouldnt like the way cows are treated during milking. And if you still drink milk then that's very hypocritical. And if you eat eggs, even free range, then that's not right either. Free range chickens are frolicking freely through grandma's lush green meadow picking at insects. The only difference is that they aren't individually caged. It's all a marketing gimick. So if you aren't COMPLETELY COMMITTED to actually being a vegan and not using ANY LEATHER or sheep fur AT ALL, then get off Y!A.





Also, write your own opinions. Seriously. That may sway peoples opinions. But these overused articles simply coped and pasted onto her doesn't cut it for anyone.
Reply:dude i hate uggs...rock on
Reply:I'm a sweet loli vegan. I hate uggs and think sheep are cute. Real Uggs are for skinheads.
Reply:I think no one should wear those awful shoes in the first place!


And, as a vegetarian, I find it completely wrong to murder defenseless animals to make heinous shoes!





So I'm joining your boycott.
Reply:Stop putting these online! This is soooo annoying! I don't even wear UGGS because I think they are hideous. UGH!!! Maybe I will go out and buy some, just because you have annoyed me enough~!!!
Reply:Why do people keep putting these up??


There's loads of people who are gonna wear them (like me!)


Sheep don't do much anyway..



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