PETA Fashion Police

Post Christmas PETA have created a publicity stunt in the States to make global headlines. People were ticketed today in downtown Chattanooga for wearing fur, leather or wool.

Two PETA members wearing provocative police costumes acted as fashion police handing out citations while holding placards reading “Animal Skins Are a Fashion Felony”. PETA says it wants “shoppers to go faux and make fur, leather and wool a thing of Christmas past.”

PETA have staged so many publicity stunts they deserve a huge pat on the back. The charity’s activists have dressed up as chickens, rats, carrots, rabbits, priests, even Santa Claus to make a point. My favourite PETA stunt saw Pamela Anderson the TV babe unveil a poster for the animal rights group during a visit to Vienna. The poster showed the actor clad in a bikini made of three lettuce leaves. It read “Turn over a new leaf: Try vegetarian.” Another high was when they used a former Penthouse model to promote vegetarianism by wrestling in a vat of tofu in cities across America.