FUR is on the increase again, according to fashion experts, with more women than ever being seduced by images of size zero models (or as near as) strutting the catwalks wearing real fur.
Designers like Julian McDonald have a lot to answer for. They peddle their immoral wares with the message that women can be more alluring in fur!
I think any red-bloodied male would prefer to see women dressed in simple but sexy clothes, not some dead animal draped all over them, but that's just my opinion - and my husband’s too!
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against women wanting to flaunt their looks. Hell, I did as a teenager, and even though I am now well into middle age, I still like to try and look good.
I just don't think it should be at the expense of animals.
To be honest the only animals that look truly beautiful in fur, are the ones whose backs it gets ripped from.
Make no mistake, there is real suffering in the fur trade, a fact most fur lovers don't want to contemplate.
Animals caught in traps can linger for days before they are put out of their misery.
Some have been known to gnaw off a limb in a bid to escape the agony of the steel jaw.
Factory-farmed animals don't fare much better either - leading miserable lives in cages, before being electrocuted in their anuses. Some have even been filmed being skinned alive.
So much for compassion.
Peta advert featuring model and designer Sadie Frost
Just getting a law to ban hunting with dogs took long enough, thanks to the House of Lords, so any prospect of getting a law to ban the import of fur into Britain will be a very long time coming.
It's not as if we need to wear fur - our climate is hardly arctic and even if it were, this is 2007, we have good alternatives to fur now.
Unfortunately for the animals, we are living in a time when their suffering comes second to status, wealth and vanity.
I can't help feeling there has been some carefully planned manoeuvring by the pharmaceutical industry, helped by government, to strangle freedom of speech - especially aimed at animal rights.
Break a flimsy law (if you are A/R) and you go to prison for four years - beat up a pensioner (if you are a common yob) and he dies of a heart attack, you only get two.
Torture an animal to death in the most horrific way possible, and the courts let you off.
Surely it can't just can't be me that thinks there is something wrong with that?
Now it seems pro-fur designers have given compassion the finger too, and anyone speaking out against them are told to, well, f... off.
We won't be going anywhere, not while animals are hunted for fun, factory farmed, abused for entertainment, experimented on and killed for vanity.
Getting back to fur, I think it's fair to say women in the past said no to it, which leaves one with the burning question, “Just when did women become so cruel?”
Thank God for PETA whose motto is, “I would rather go naked than wear fur”.
I think my husband might just agree on that!
