Word: minke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruining his business. The show aired gruesome video clips of animals caught in brutal leg traps. On an upcoming episode of Designing Women, narcissistic Suzanne Sugarbaker is mauled by anti-fur activists. When Atlanta disk jockey Scott Woodside this month mentioned that he had bought his wife a mink coat, listeners deluged his station with calls. The result was an informal poll in which the anti-fur forces carried the day, 702 to 684. Said Woodside: "I was extremely surprised...
...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 sales have remained stagnant -- at an annual level of about $1.8 billion -- over the past three years; during the Christmas season, many department stores are slashing prices to move their furs. To meet the animal-rights threat, the Fur Information Council of America last month launched an ad campaign stressing freedom...
...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 coat. So is New York department-store employee Suzanne Pandjiris, who still wears her mink but fears attacks by protesters. "It makes me nervous," she says...
...since a chiding by an animal- rights supporter caused her to have a change of heart. "How could anyone wear a fur coat?" she now says. "How these animals have to suffer!" Last week, as a gesture of support, Chicago secretary Kathi Hodowal turned over her eight-year-old mink coat to Trans-Species, which uses such donations to stage mock funerals with fur-filled coffins. Explains Hodowal: "I just decided to give up my fur coat. It's so cruel to animals...
...LIVING: Mink, the ultimate luxury or a "sadist symbol...