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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Animal-rights groups have steadily gathered force. Last month Trans-Species Unlimited, an animal activist organization, staged its fourth annual Fur-Free Friday in 90 cities across the nation. In New York City some 3,000 protesters, led by perennial TV game-show host Bob Barker, marched down Fifth Avenue...
While most anti-fur groups work by moral persuasion, a few animal activists have adopted extreme, even criminal tactics to advance their cause. In New York City they have sprayed coats with paint. On Fur-Free Friday several fur shops were vandalized in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. In Europe anti...
The fur industry maintains that mink, which account for 75% of U.S. fur coats, are treated humanely and killed painlessly. Fur, the industry points out, is a natural fabric whose production does not pollute the environment or use fossil fuels, as does the creation of acrylic fibers. Nonetheless, U.S. fur...
Many women -- and fur-wearing men too -- are starting to think twice before they shrug on a fur and nip off to the office or the grocery store. Ever since she was called "animal killer" on the street, Susan Singer, a Manhattan executive, has been ambivalent about wearing her fur...
Other women stubbornly refuse to be intimidated. Chicago art-gallery owner Eva-Maria Worthington, for instance, does not hesitate to wrap herself in beaver against the winds on the Magnificent Mile. "If they're so concerned about animals," she sniffs, "I think they should go to a pound and clean...