Id rather go naked then wear fur

T here's a new sport in town: hunt the fur-wearing celeb. It involves packs of paparazzi staking out posh pubs and clubs, where they wait for the fur-sporting beasts to emerge from the shadows. Then they shoot with their cameras and string up their victims for all to see in the pages of the following day's tabloids. Madonna was recently spotted wearing dead chinchillas and Kate Moss was spied wrapped up in mink. These days, probably only the worse fate that can befall a celeb than to be caught wearing a fur coat is to be caught with child porn on their hard disk. The latest victim of the great celebrity fur hunt is Heather Mills.

A nonprofit corporation with nearly employees, it claims that it has 6. Founded in March by Ingrid Newkirk and fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco , the organization first caught the public's attention in the summer of during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. The case lasted 10 years, involved the only police raid on an animal laboratory in the United States , triggered an amendment in to that country's Animal Welfare Act, and established PETA as an internationally known organization. It also campaigns for a vegan lifestyle and against eating meat, fishing, the killing of animals regarded as pests, the keeping of chained backyard dogs, cock fighting , dog fighting , beekeeping , and bullfighting. The group is the focus of controversy , both inside and outside the animal rights movement and around the world. Newkirk, and formerly Pacheco, are seen as the leading exporters of animal rights to the more traditional animal-protection groups in the United States, but sections of the movement nonetheless say that PETA is not radical enough—law professor Gary Francione lists the group among what he calls "the new welfarists," arguing that its work with industries to achieve reform, which continues in the tradition of Henry Spira , makes it an animal welfare group, not an animal rights group. No one, she says, is being exploited.

As we've noted, PETA has its own trademark ways of getting attention, and perhaps the most noticeable is their various semi-nude or nude protests. One of their campaigns that gets the most attention is the " I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur " campaign, because it enlists attractive celebrities to pose for billboard photos. When they're in your town, they're just about impossible to miss. That campaign just got a boost by appearing on a reality show. On tomorrow's episode, "I'd Rather Go Naked