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'Green' Gwyn a Hypocrite? Star Hawks Fur
August 18, 2008 3:08 PM
She eats a macrobiotic diet. She's married to world-famous vegetarian/Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. She's BFF with green-minded fashion designer Stella McCartney. She donates a portion of the proceeds from her perfume to breast cancer research.
And yet, she stars in a new ad for Italian luxury label Tod's, draped in fox fur and wearing fur-lined boots.
It seems somewhat hypocritical for Gwyneth Paltrow, an actress almost as famous for her Academy-award winning performances as for her activism. To be fair, Paltrow hasn't declared a public stance on fur. While she doesn't often rock it on the red carpet, she donned a lush fur coat for her turn in 2001's "The Royal Tenenbaums." But it's jarring to see a star committed to a green, holistic lifestyle hawking a product so polarizing. And animal rights activists aren't happy with the statement she's made.
"Gwyneth Paltrow won’t be the apple of her daughter’s eye if she flaunts the skins of once beautiful animals rendered into fur. It’s a shocking example to set for a young child, promoting an industry that electrocutes animals, snaps their necks and skins them alive," People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Michael McGraw said in an e-mail statement. "We’ve written to her many times, and sent her videos showing how animals are painfully electrocuted, slowly drowned and have their necks snapped for fur but have never received a response. Apparently her beauty really is only skin deep."
Paltrow's representative, Stephen Huvane, declined ABCNews.com's requests for comment. Perhaps it's time for the pelt-wearing star to pipe up?
Sheila Marikar
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For wealthy celebs, being 'green' is really just about image and self congratulations. The multiple big houses, the private jets, the limos etc etc. Please. These are people who live in an echo chamber of righteous adulation. I don't even expect them to have a clue.
Posted by: bct424 | Aug 18, 2008 3:32:08 PM
Well I'm sure Gwyn has bought animal rights "credit" from Al Gore's company. It therefore wouldn't matter how many animals got killed to make the fur she's wearing.
Posted by: ivan12356 | Aug 18, 2008 3:36:27 PM
I'm so sick of peta and their tactics. Truth is most animals used for fur are destroyed humanely and the only rights animals have are the ones we bestow on them.
Posted by: cpadraic | Aug 18, 2008 3:36:32 PM
She's certainly got other options to keep her warm and I can't imagine she's done the ad because she's in desperate need of cash. I guess she just doesn't care what it takes to produce fur. She may like to pretend she does - when it's convenient - or to let people think she does, but, obviously she doesn't. Let's return the favor, shall we? (Gwyneth who????)
Posted by: tiredgirlie | Aug 18, 2008 3:41:10 PM
Is this the same dumb ass who wrote the 'article' Uma Thurman Is A Nose Holder? Maybe I should get into journalism. I can't believe what ABC publishes as 'news' these days.
Posted by: keredte | Aug 18, 2008 3:47:55 PM
Isn't fur a RENEWABLE resource? Man-made materials such as nylon are made from petroleum products, a finite resource. Even cotton requires a large amount of petroleum to get it from the field to the consumer. It's too cold to run around naked where I live. What to do?
Posted by: Amazing G | Aug 18, 2008 3:53:41 PM
& how exactly do we know that the fur isn't "faux"? ... let's find something newsworthy to print
Posted by: beheard70 | Aug 18, 2008 3:54:20 PM
Well said bct424.
Posted by: p1tey1 | Aug 18, 2008 4:02:59 PM
beheard70 posted, "& how exactly do we know that the fur isn't "faux"? ... let's find something newsworthy to print" We know because Tod's is PROUD of designing & selling clothing & accessories made of real animal fur. Check out their catalog - it's real.
Posted by: tiredgirlie | Aug 18, 2008 4:03:42 PM
Hey PETA... Check out my new Persian Cat hat!!! **He says with a smile as he gets Bambi lined up in the cross hairs of his high powered rifle**
Posted by: shawn | Aug 18, 2008 4:12:42 PM
"I guess she just doesn't care what it takes to produce fur." posted by tiredgirlie
You want to know what it takes???
Some water and some food!!! ( and a good sharp filet knife!!!)
Posted by: shawn | Aug 18, 2008 4:15:33 PM
Animal Rights? Animals have the right to taste good and shut up about it. About the same as small children. (burp)
Posted by: trex2u | Aug 18, 2008 4:18:13 PM
I too wish Peta would just go away.
They don't care about the animals - they would like nothing better than to take away pet owner's rights.
Wearing fur or not wearing fur is a choice. Last time I checked this is a free country
Posted by: Mrs. B | Aug 18, 2008 4:19:03 PM
tiredgirlie is living in the dark. It's our right as humans to take whatever we can from animals. Meat, eggs, fur, medical testing as long as we do it with reason and purpose what's the difference. As a species, we can't survive without using animals. Besides chicks in furs are hot.
Posted by: cpadriac | Aug 18, 2008 4:19:08 PM
No surprise she's doing an ad for a fur company. She's always been totally stuck on herself. Why don't we bow to her highness. I hope PETA skins her alive! She always has something to say about someone else and how superior she thinks she is to them. Look who she married. A Brit, of course!
Posted by: Gladys | Aug 18, 2008 4:27:02 PM
Fore you christians out there - in the bible it says people were given dominion over the animals - that means to govern over them - not to slaughter them as we have. Oh yeah I forgot - you the type of christians that cherry pick the parts of the bible you believe in...
Posted by: jozy | Aug 18, 2008 4:27:10 PM
"in the bible it says people were given dominion over the animals - that means to govern over them - not to slaughter them as we have."
Yup, Old Testament. Which, by the way, also advocates the killing of animals as offerings to God.
Posted by: bodacia | Aug 18, 2008 4:38:52 PM
Of course it is hypocritical for her to be pro-fur. What is she thinking? This most certainly will tarnish her image. It's called "Green Wash" when individuals and corporations talk a good game but promote minuscule projects or take insignificant action.
Posted by: Perspective | Aug 18, 2008 4:50:25 PM
In two simple words... Who cares?
It's a celeb hawking an expensive product. We slaughter millions of pigs, cows, fish, etc. all for food. We wear their leather, wool, and silk for clothes. Just because the animal happens to be a Fox it causes an uproar.
Who cares?
Posted by: Erik | Aug 18, 2008 4:51:41 PM
PETA new campaign slogan;
'Save animals abort your children.'
Posted by: Tommy D | Aug 18, 2008 4:57:00 PM
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