According to this blog and other sources (do a search for "PETA, Olsen" for lots of info):
PETA's had it with former Full House stars Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, and on Monday they launched an anti-Olsen campaign on a subsite called "Meet The Trollsen Twins: Dress Up The Trollsens." The site, Peta2.com, has an interactive online game of sorts, where you can dress up Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen cartoon dolls, who have odd body marks, and are featured stick-thin standing in a wardrobe full of - bloody - fur clothes.
This columnist commented on the situation:
If People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals really cared about animals, instead of vivisecting the celebrity Olsen twins as it did this week for wearing fur, it would actually be promoting the U.S. fur trade. Seriously....
...I sometimes think animal-rights activists have a vision of wild animals being happily surrounded at the end of life by their little Bambis as they slip off peacefully to animal heaven. The reality is that animals in the wild will for the most part suffer tortuous deaths by a) being brutally killed and eaten, or being eaten very much alive, by other animals or b) dying a horrific, slow death -- alone -- of sickness, injury or old age...
...Now consider that the U.S. fur industry is the most scrutinized in the world, as it should be. The American Veterinary Medical Association approves of the humane raising of animals for their fur. Member vets inspect fur farms through industry-certification organizations such as the Fur Commission USA to ensure compliance with ethical standards of animal care. In its 2007 guidelines on euthanasia, which actually means "good death," the AVMA noted that most farm-raised fur animals, which is where most U.S. pelts come from, "are euthanized individually and at the location where they are raised." Typically, they are painlessly gassed.
Interesting points. Maybe I'll comment on this controversial issue at a later date.
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