Will u top wearing UGGS and save the sheeP?

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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 top wearing UGGS and save the sheeP?
stop with the ugg hate!
Reply:just to let you know, they don't kill uggs for the fur. they take the fur left over from the sheep after the MEAT that people are eating is taken and they create uggs with it.





http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...





do your research.
Reply:well, first off, i'm vegetarian, and i would personally never wear fur, even if it's fake.


i agree with Aly Lopez-Aguiar %26amp; Thompson.


being overly graphic just gives the whole issue a negative issue.


i'm personally not a fan of PETA for this reason [they are hypocrites; ingrid supports bsl; they push their beliefs on other people; they do anything to get attention, etc]





while i would personally never wear fur, i don't think it's my right to go and tell other people not to. [and if i did, i wouldn't get down on the ground and wear bloody fur or make a huge show of it] people should be able to do what they want, %26amp; if wearing fur does not bother them, then they should wear it if they care to.
Reply:holy mother, STOP posting this
Reply:it aint sheered wool, its skin, like us being skinned. im veggie and i think uggs look common, so yeah i wont be wearing them!!


and fur sucks!!!
Reply:nope.


i wont stop
Reply:How is wearing the sheared wool of a sheep, killing it?
Reply:They don't kill sheep just for Uggs.
Reply:they shave the animal i think now.
Reply:I don't wear them so I won't wear them now!
Reply:Honestly, it's a nice try you are trying to stop people from wearing Uggs and save the sheep, but people are still going to wear them and buy them.



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