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**Kit-Kat** , Monday, 26th of July 2010 07:23:53 AM

Kit-Kat , Monday, 26th of July 2010 07:23:53 AM

Will u boycott them 2 save the sheep?
Will u stop wearing them?

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/>Do u fell sorry 4 the millions of sheep?
PAWS takes aim at Ugg

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The Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)

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stages a protest on the Frist North Lawn against the use of animal skins

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for clothing. PAWS Vice-President Alex Barnard '09 lies in the snow

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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.
“l 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.”

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