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PETA: Lady Gaga 'has no heart' for wearing fox head fur scarf

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PETA is once again outraged at Lady Gaga, who recently stepped out in Cologne, Germany with a white fox head scarf wrapped around her neck.

"The outfit really speaks for itself. PETA is considering passing the hat so that someone can buy her a heart," PETA spokesperson Wendy Wegner told RadarOnline.
She added that Gaga’s accessory appears to be from an Arctic White Fox, which is often electrocuted for its fur.

The animal rights organization has slammed the eccentric singer for her preference for fur before. They had considered the "Judas" singer for an anti-fur ally when she spoke up against the cruelty of wearing fur on “The Ellen Degeneres Show” in 2009.

"Many of your gay fans, I among them, have long admired what you told Ellen: 'I hate fur, and I don't wear fur,'" wrote Dan Mathews, senior vice president of PETA, after she wore a bright pink Giorgio Armani fur coat and hat combo last month.

Mathews called the singer a “turncoat” for reneging on her anti-fur stance and “dumb” for wearing fur in record-breaking summer heat.

"By wearing those dumb furs in a heat wave, you're making yourself a target just like the mindless Kim Kardashian,” he wrote.

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Russell Simmons Addresses Lady Gaga Fur faux pas

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Dear Mother Monster,

You will go down in history as one of the most talented and beloved artists the world has ever known. You are an integral part of the artistic community that gives a voice to our pain, joy, struggles and triumphs through your music.

This is the same community that has historically been on the side of right since the beginning of time - bringing people together via the language of song. Poets always spoke the truth in song, whether it was via the innocent spirituals, as the slave songs came to be known, the protest songs of the beatnik generation who pushed for the end of the war, the legendary peace anthem of John Lennon's "Imagine," or the poetry of Tupac Shakur that gave a voice to the violent hardships that exist for every angry child growing up in inner cities. The poets who make music about social change set the tone and direction for our society because they are able to express the god that is within themselves.

When you look inside, you see "god" or the connective tissue that bonds you to all living beings and to life itself. The artist knows what the yogis and other leading spiritual beings have said throughout history: that we (all living beings) are ONE. If god were the ocean, we would be cups of god.

While I will not judge each individual's unconscious action, I will speak to the collective. The ripping off of skin of other sentient beings while they are still alive - during a time when we have options available to us to wear cruelty-free alternatives - is an issue I have to lend my voice to. Wearing these skins is abusive to animals, but equally as abusive to ourselves, as we are the animal that we abuse. As a vegan, I believe the greatest karmic disaster in the history of humankind is the 40 billion animals made to be born into suffering each year. Fur-bearing animals suffer the same fate for vanity and greed.

Lady Gaga, you are a great artist who has used your celebrity to fight for equality and fairness, so I know you are a compassionate loving human being who would not publicly defend others for their unconscious behavior. LET'S NOT SET OFF A CHAIN REACTION WHERE ARTISTS ACT AS SUPPORT FOR A SOCIETY'S UNCONSCIOUS BEHAVIOR. Let's instead do what artists have done throughout history and be on the side of love and compassion, because that is our natural state.

I am PETA's Person of The Year and I support them, but this isn't about PETA or their tactics. Don't allow your feelings about them to govern how you feel about animals. Those feelings should come as a result of your heart meditation. Please continue to use your immense talent as an instrument of love, peace and compassion. Watch this video, whose message cannot be denied, and know that I love you.

Sincerely,

Russell Simmons



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Ke$Ha Addresses Lady Gaga Fur brouhaha

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Following Lady Gaga's shocking admission of "IDGAF" in regards to killing animals in the name of fashion, and her reverence for carcasses which she refers to as "art".




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