Love Animals, Hate Fur

I may not be a vegan or vegetarian, but I have a soft spot for animals. Ask my friends. I get upset when I see animals dead on the streets, and I constantly lecture my friends about the way they take care of their pets. And yes, it sickens me to know people wear fur, particularly because if you knew how these animals are killed you'd probably never think about purchasing fur again (there is this amazing HBO documentary on the history of PETA called I Am An Animal, watch it!). Not that fur is really a problem here in Miami; I mean you would have to be retarded to wear it in this weather.

Well Miami Ink's Ami James also shares my beliefs, so much so he is appears in a new PETA ad with the tagline "Ink, Not Mink." I hear you Ami. Well tonight, Ami & Co. are unveiling the ad at Love Hate Lounge, which is owned by Ami and Chris Nuñez. For the night, the bar will be renamed for the night "Love Animals, Hate Fur" in honor of the PETA ad.

You can also enter for your chance to win the original artwork of a tattoo designed by Ami specifically for PETA. Runner-ups win a temporary tattoo of the design ('cause nothing says "badass" like a temporary tattoo). Also check out the nifty interview with him done at the photo shoot for the ad.

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Wooorrd! This is super!
Europeans are weird enough to wear fur in the summer. I remember I was in Milan back in the summer of '99 and I saw a woman riding a Vespa using an umbrella (it wasn't raining) while wearing full-length fur coat and huge dark sunglasses. She was very talented to manage all that, because that's almost like she's trying to get into an accident.

Anyway, I hate PETA and all they stand for. Preventing unnecessary cruelty to animals is something I can agree with. However, many of their campaigns go stupidly overboard and some of their demands are outlandish. If you visit the PETAkids website, it has a section that offers information about "saving animals" and it instructs kids to do shit that would cause them to get beat down in school. Like instead of going along on a field trip to the zoo, you should convince your school and classmates that zoos are jails filled with oppressed and mistreated animals, and then suggest that the class/school take a trip to a conservatory instead. A "zoo" for plants is just what every 4th-grader is dying to see, right?

PETA won't be happy until we elect a dolphin as President and pack the Supreme Court with conservative African gray parrots. I can see it now, a new Roe vs. Wade. Roe being fish eggs and Wade, a man, who wants to eat them. "CERT GRANTED! CERT GRANTED!" squawks Justice Blackbeak at the beginning of the new term. The decision would be written out in sunflower seed shells stuck together with bird spittle: "ROE ARE BABY FISH, LIVING ANIMALS. THEIR RIGHTS AS ANIMALS MUST BE DEFENDED." And the court later reveals that a moving amicus curiae brief from Koko, the signing ape, was the deciding factor. PETA's nonsensical agenda will give new meaning to kangaroo court if you let them carry on as they do. They must be stopped!

Rocking the balls and ass of the blogging world.
so i shouldnt wear fur, but leather shoes and belts are ok? prolly not right? it still an animal product. or are some aminal products ok? how much leather is upholstering that venue? Maybe no one will wear leather shoes that night....... right.

Koko's brief, transcribed by her trainer, would read as follows:

"PRETTY KOKO PRETTY. LIPS APPLE BIRD TOUCH FACE SMILE. SAD FISH DRESS SLEEP. LOVE LOVE OPEN. TICKLE KOKO KOKO HAPPY. HUNGRY HUNGRY HUNGRY SHIRT RED."

Rocking the balls and ass of the blogging world.
Jsand, the ape whisperer.
I am the eggman
Read more about Ami and PETA at:
http://victoriasrighthip.typepad.com/six_guys_from_miami_ink_l/

 



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