PETA
To Aretha: We'll
Stop
Your Foreclosure If You Quit Fur
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Internet sources revealed docs last week showing Aretha
Franklin is reportedly facing foreclosure on her Michigan home,
for approximately $19,000 in backed taxes. (See, Aretha, you
should've backed the presidential candidate that wanted to abolish
the IRS! Ahem, ahem!) PETA has been stepping up their anti-fur protests -
yesterday, we posted an article on their new video game blasting clothing giant Burberry for
using fur. And now, Ingrid Newkirk with People For
The Ethical Treatment Of Animals is making a gutsy and generous
move: PETA is offering to pay Aretha Franklin's $19k in taxes and
save the Michigan home, if Aretha will promise to stop wearing
fur.
PETA posted in their blog yesterday, Well,
despite the fact that we've had the occasional run-in with the
Queen of Soul, we're willing to bury the hatchet and even help her out of
her recent financial troubles by paying her $19,000...provided that she
agrees to stop wearing fur and donate her unwanted furs to PETA as
Mariah Carey and
Kim Cattrall have
done.
Mariah Carey did that? Go Mariah! I
think Aretha should go for it. What would it hurt, ReRe, to go
faux? This is a win-win! Take
it!
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