West Hollywood launches fur-free campaign

Already, the city of West Hollywood has banned the sale of dogs and cats, as well as the declawing of cuddly felines. Now the city inside the city of L.A. is home to a new campaign that would ban the sale of fur.

"West Hollywood is so progressive, we knew this was a great city to take the reins and make this a cruelty-free zone in terms of banning fur," said Shannon Keith, campaign organizer for  Fur Free West Hollywood.  

The campaign kicks off at noon Jan. 29 with a rally at Matthew Shepard Human Rights Triangle Park. West Hollywood City Council candidate John D'Amico will issue the event's rallying cry. D'Amico, who has embraced the fur ban as part of his campaign, is running for one of three open seats on the West Hollywood City Council in a March 8 election.

"Critical thinking and honest-to-goodness good ideas make the world a better place," D'Amico said. "As far as my participation and being associated with Fur Free West Hollywood, I am an animal welfare advocate. Fur Free West Hollywood is about thinking of creative and exciting new ways to be in the world -- to really expand how it is we exist and the kinds of people we can be when we think carefully about the world we’re living in."

Campaign organizers are currently compiling a list of stores that sell fur within its boundaries. A phone call to WeHo fur seller Maxfield was not returned in time for this post.

-- Susan Carpenter

Photo: Fur Free West Hollywood

Comments

[j]

People are such loosers

[Ed Buck]

West Hollywood will establish itself as the Fur Free Fashion Capitol of the World as we ban the sale of fur in our city. Wearing road-kill as fashion is over.

[Heather]

The puffed up super inflated ego of Hollywood is simply astounding. Hollywood, and by assocation Los Angeles sees itself as a supreme example of a torchbearing, progressive and forward thinking community, who's ideas, laws and way of life is the model of how the world should live in harmony and justice. Wake up Hollywood, your stars are just overpaid actors, not world spokes, people,your lifestyle is overhyped and a far cry from what most of us want in the real world, your "progressives" are seen by the rest of us as idiots. The reality is that in most of the rest of the world, (the RERAL world), what goes on in Hollywood is seen as at best a joke performed by a bunch of clowns, and at worst the actions and shenanigans of some seriously diaturbed people who should be locked out of society until therapy cures them. By Therapy I mean mainstream medical therapy, not the home grown Hollywood con artist types who make fortunes out of other people's gullability.

[Linda]

Whats next the outlawing of leather goods, as those are animal skins as well? Or...the outlawing of meat because "some people" don't like to eat it for ethical views. Its kind of like a religion forcing their beliefs on all the other citizens. Live and let live.

[dtran79]

Can West Hollywood get any more annoying? If I were a local boutique owner/designer, I'd be ready to relocate to a part of LA that doesn't dictate my designs.