PETA was not happy with Rihanna's look at last week's Dior Cruise show when the pop titan showed up to the event wearing an oversized fur coat, and they're hoping to help the singer see the light.
On Tuesday (May 16), the animal rights activist group wrote a letter to the Barbadian beauty in hopes of getting their point across. "We saw the numerous comments from fans who were disappointed to see you wearing fur at the Dior event last week," Andrew Bernstein, PETA's Senior Manager of Communications, wrote in the letter. "Like us, they wish you would please retire your furs and instead choose a look that kills but doesn’t actually kill anyone."
"Please accept this faux fur as a gift from PETA. In addition, we’d like to request that you please consider donating your furs to us. Every fur item causes a tremendous amount of pain and suffering to the foxes, minks, and coyotes who are beaten, electrocuted, gassed, and often skinned alive by the fur industry—and fur production takes a toll on humans as well," he continued. "In the U.S. alone, fur farms are directly responsible for nearly 1,000 tons of phosphorous entering our rivers and streams each year, not to mention the toxic soup of chemicals used to keep animal skins from decomposing, which are hazardous to workers and the surrounding environment."
Bernstein closed out his message by letting Rihanna know that donated furs have great use. "In the past, we’ve sent furs to Syrian refugees and to homeless shelters, which has an impact on 'as many lives as possible in a positive way,' as you said so eloquently in your Harvard Humanitarian Award acceptance speech," he concluded.
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