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'Your mommy kills
animals' Posted: December 19, 2003
Animal-rights activists across the nation are
planning to single out children who are unlucky enough to have mothers who wear
fur by giving them fliers at performances of "The Nutcracker" ballet
saying, "Your Mommy Kills Animals." The
fliers feature a woman stabbing a terrified rabbit in the belly with a bloody
knife, reports the Boston Herald. Text on the pamphlets urges kids to "ask
your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes." "Children
can't look up to a mom in a battered-raccoon hat or a crushed coyote collar,''
Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, told
the paper. "Maybe when they're confronted by their own children's hurt
looks, fur-wearers' cold hearts will melt.'' According
to the report, the fliers even urge children to protect their pets from mom:
"The sooner she stops wearing fur, the sooner the animals will be safe.
Until then, keep your doggie or kitty friends away from mommy – she's an
animal killer.'' Child
psychologist Dr. Carolyn Newberger decried the tactic. "It's
using children in the worst possible way,'' she told the Herald. "If (the
activists) want to legitimately work to protect animals from destruction for
fashion, they have every right to. But to do so by targeting children and
making them feel their mothers are murderers is absolutely unconscionable.'' According
to PETA national coordinator Lisa Franzetta, activists will descend on
Christmas performances of "The Nutcracker" in as many as 20 cities
across the U.S. The
paper says Franzetta acknowledged the anti-fur campaign might spark a backlash.
"It's
definitely provocative; I will give you that,'' she said. Charles
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