Fur Is Evil

Huffington Post did a story about former anti-fur model Naomi Campbell doing ads for furrier Dennis Basso, and asks its readers if they find it “despicable” or if “models don’t really care about fur, they just do it for the publicity.” Of course, lurking around the bottom of the story are Google fur ads, reaching [...]

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The COO of the HSUS, Michael Markarian, has a blog on the Huffington Post. And the blog is peddling fur. Let me rephrase: A Blog by the COO of the Humane Society of the United States is selling fur. There is no excuse for this. There is no excuse for continued inaction about this issue. [...]

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Today, I took some screenshots from a a brief visit the website AnimalRightsZone.com. There are  Google-powered ads for the skins of the following animals: possum, mink, sable  fox  chinchilla and rabbit. The graphics in the header of the site are presumedly baby seals. Fortunately, Google has the good taste not to also peddle sealskin here [...]

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Google says it is committed to energy conservation. We say: the ecologically, epidemiologically and morally disastrous practice of RAISING A SENTIENT BEING in cages merely to harvest his or her skin, is a waste of Earth’s resources and should be condemned. Our Earth Hour challenge to Google: Stop advertising fur for One Hour today. And [...]

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TO: James Smith Chief Revenue Officer Huffington Post Dear Mr. Smith, Is HuffingtonPost.com Pro-Fur? If not, WHY ARE YOU ADVERTISING FUR for a seller of Lynx (an endangered species in many parts of the world) and mink? Today, you just profited from fur ads on your site. I know, because I’m the one who clicked [...]

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Taken today, this screenshot shows AdSense fur ads on Planet Green’s website. (Sadly, this is no longer a surprising or unusual phenomenon.) MEMO TO PLANET GREEN — if your corporate management sees no problem in profiting from the fur industry, why not just start your own fur farms? I’m sure you TV viewership and other [...]

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Treehugger.com featuring fur ads for Mink Hats and Genuine Chinchilla Coats. MEMO TO TREEHUGGER: Are you kidding? You have the gall to call yourselves “treehuggers” and write articles about OTHER PEOPLE selling fur, when your own site — despite repeated notifications from our campaign — is still selling fur? The following screenshot was taken today, [...]

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In this post on SuperVegan, this fur-bearing vegan site praises a video by Joshua Katcher where he educates fur-wearers in Soho about the evils behind their fur garments. Of course, in the post itself, yet more mink and fox fur ads show up, courtesy of SuperVegan’s dependence on Google AdSense revenue. It’s interesting to read [...]

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Several correspondents have said they would use GoodSearch (powered by Yahoo! Search) instead of Google. Unfortunately, GoodSearch.com is advertising fur too, and thus you’d not be supporting a fur-free search engine by using GoodSearch.com or Yahoo!Search. In fact, it is possible that some or many of the fur ads you will find on GoodSearch.com are [...]

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Today on Animal Planet’s website, like every day, it’s ridiculously easy to find fur ads. For “gorgeous” fur bankets,  3,000-dollar designer fur coats, mink, “skin on skin” and, last but not least, pro-fur propaganda from Canada’s “Fur Council” — telling us things like “fur is green” and that fur is a natural fashion choice.” I’m [...]

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Apparently, the word “options” in GreenOptions.com is meant in the most literal sense. A GreenOptions.com story about Canada asking the EU to drop a proposed seal product ban is ensconced in fur advertising. Related Articles: “Animal Rights Zone” Fur Ads Thanks to Google GreenOptions.com advertises Fur next to Photo of Baby Seal Treehugger.com Advertising Fur [...]

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UPDATE #1: CORRECTION: The Advert for  LaFayette furs was NOT served by Natural Path Media’s ad server (as we’d indicated in the original version of this post).  The cause of our confusion is, well, understandable because directly beneath the fur adverts appeared a logo that said “Ads by Natural Path Media.” NPM wrote and explained [...]

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No one at Discovery Communications unexpectedly furry websites Planet Green, Treehugger or Animal Planet seems to think that seemingly unstoppable fur advertisements on their websites is newsworthy. Like a force of nature, Google fur advertisements seem to be in control of their websites. But, as yet, no press release, no friendly post to their millions [...]

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I wrote the following challenge on SuperVegan’s website here: Like Treehugger, Grist, Planet Green and Animal Planet — to mention just a few — SuperVegan would rather support Google’s continued fur advertising on their website than make even a symbolic statement of protest against fur ads. As a vegan myself, I’m truly surprised. Here’s the [...]

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SUPERVEGAN (WITH MASSIVE HYPOCRISY) WRITES: The worst violation of decency goes to Spike Lee’s wife, Tonya Lewis, who was wearing a big, grotesque fur. Spike’s not off the hook either; he sported a fur collar and a Yankees hat with fur lining. Did they “Do the Right Thing” and have some consideration before flaunting their [...]

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When it comes to fur, SuperVegan.com holds African-American singers to the highest ethical standards. But Google and SuperVegan don’t need any standards at all. See the Mink, Possum and Chinchilla ads? Google gets pait to put those there. SuperVegan gets paid too. So, the lesson is: It’s okay if “SuperVegan” and Google advertise and profit [...]

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None of these sites seem to care enough about the horrific fur industry to do something really easy and simple: Just turn off AdSense. Send a message, even if briefly, to Google. On behalf of all the fur animals in cages whose skin you are selling on your sites, shame on you. You should be [...]

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I got a little surprise today. SuperVegan responded to my comment and challenge about fur ads on their post about how “shocked” the writer was that Aretha Franklin was NOT wearing fur. In the response to my challenge that they ban AdSense until AdSense bans fur, SuperVegan responded almost exactly as Animal Planet did: 1) [...]

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Much like our post about Ecorazzi, the vegan website SuperVegan and its readers were recently engaging in discussion of whether celebrities where wearing fur or not at the inauguration. In the screenshots below, SuperVegan’s writer and readers are policing Jay-Z and Tonya Lewis. Meanwhile, ON THE PAGE of SuperVegan’s own website, AdSense and SuperVegan are [...]

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Here we go again. Another day, another AdSense Fur Dollar for so-called “green” site Planet Green. This time, Planet Green is helping a fur dealer who sells Grizzly Bear, Wolf and Black Bears rugs. As a though experiment, can you imagine a guy setting up shop in Planet Green’s offices, selling Bear and Wolf and [...]

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