Olsen twins incur the wrath of PETA

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been busy of late, worrying about fried chicken, lobsters and the like. But this week they're worried about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen., at right. No, it's nothing about their tiny-ness. It's about their fur-wearing ways.

Here's how Us magazine reports it:

In a new ad campaign to be unveiled at the Olsens' Walk of Fame star on Hollywood Boulevard, PETA blasts the 21-year-old star siblings — whom they dub the "Trollsen Twins" — for wearing fur and including it in their collections Elizabeth and James and The Row.

"Thin-twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are about to get some publicity that will have them running away faster than if they'd spotted a calorie," the group said in a snarky statement today. The new ad features the twins above the headline "Fur Is Worn by Beautiful Animals and Ugly People."

Meanwhile, PETA has issued a statement on the affair, which reads in part:

"As the Olsen twins prepare to celebrate their 22nd birthday this Friday, they'll be getting some unusual 'gifts' in the mail -- locks of hair from countless young people who object to cruelty to animals."

The hairy birthday greetings are being sent at the request of Peta2 -- the world's largest youth animal rights organization -- which posted a "mission" on its highly trafficked web site, Peta2.com, urging young people to send the fur-wearing twins snippets of their own hair along with a note that reads, "Please, use my hair instead of the animals'. Happy Birthday."

Some days it doesn't pay to be fur-wearing and famous.

-- Alice Short

Photo: Mark Mainz/Getty Images

Comments

[Deepwater805]

PETA are a bunch of Nazi's!

[Pinkbike]

Haha! Good for PETA2. The Olson twins are just awful. So is fur. There is no justification whatsoever for wearing it. If you choose to, do your homework - learn all you can about the fur industry and how the animals are raised and killed. Then, if you can still wear it, go see a shrink, fast, before you start torturing things yourself.

[dick]

THESE KIDS GET MORE GRIEF FROM MORE PEOPLE! THE WORLD NEEDS TO GET A LIFE

[Dave Wheeler]

There is a world of cruelty in every piece of fur. The Olsens are very ugly people.

[boo boo]

These big eyed animal killers are nothing but Wal-Mart trash!
Imagine the warm nest their hair could make for a baby rodent.
Karma is a powerful force and maybe one day soon karma will allow animals to wear the Olson twins ugly hair.
How anyone can kill an animal and feel sexy in the dead animals body amazes me.
Sick world we live in!

[Lorenzo]

Please, dont PETA people have better things to do than deride successful celebs?? how about dedicating some time to the cruel treatment of children or elders ???? Humans are animals too you know ................

[K.]

For anyone to wear fur these days, and especially to sell fur, when the internet makes it easy to see (and hard to miss) how cruelly animals killed for their fur are treated, is simply morally incomprehensible.

I'm not a big PETA fan, but I'm absolutely in favor of publicly shaming celebrities like the Olsen twins and Beyonce Knowles, who wear fur, and worse, despite the fact that they're already rich, look to get richer killing animals so they can sell their skins. It's mind-boggling that they could knowingly be that cruel, and there's no way they can be ignorant of the suffering they're causing, purely for a twisted, soulless type of vanity.

[HSA_Plans]

Shame, shame, shame on the twins for supporting cruelty to innocent animals.

[Rick Cain]

Wow, people still wear fur? I thought that stuff went out of style in the 70's, who knew.

[MG]

[quote]Shame, shame, shame on the twins for supporting cruelty to innocent animals.[/quote]

I guess the Olsen Twins would fit right in with PETA.

PETA`s Stats for 2007
http://nathanwinograd.blogspot.com/2008/05/another-grisly-year-at-peta.html
PETA`s stated goal is to end pet companionship.
They are starting with "Pit Bulls"
They lobbied to have the dogs rescued from Michael Vick slaughtered but brought in donations on their backs.
This is just one of the Dogs abused by Vick then PETA that is now a working Therapy dog.
http://www.ourpack.org/
I would suggest people find out more about PETA before sending them a donation.
Don`t be fooled by PETA.
They are an Extreme Animal Rights organization,not an Animal Welfare group.
Maybe the Olsen Twins could wear the hides of the companion animals that PETA is killing.

[Patricia]

The animal rights movement seems to attract a lot of abusive people. I love animals but I do not like PETA.

I don't own any fur but I would consider buying fur just to stand up to these awful bullies.

[Patricia]

PETA to me is on the same nasty list as the people who target abortion doctors and threaten their families.

PETA worships in the power of hate. They will never get my support, ever, even though I'm not even a fan of fur and it even makes me look fat.

You have to take a stand against bullies who rule by hate or democracy will disappear.

[Kimbo]

Beyonce does not wear real fur. All her furs are imitation.

[Tiesta]

The world would be a better place if these kids who sanctimoniously send locks of hair to be received by celebrities' employees would take that time and volunteer at an animal shelter or something.

These animal activists are cowards who support the cause just because no one can argue against animals. Stop whining to US Weekly and go do something real.

[Sara]

Dear PETA, Animal Liberation Front and all you morally superior whackos. I respect your right to say what you wish, but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to stop acting like jealous idealogs whose such noble cause prompts such ill will onto law abiding citizens. And yes, I've seen your videos and no, I dont need psychological help.

I LOVE fur. I LOVE the way it feels. I LOVE the way it looks on me and the glamor, and I LOVE the way it makes you so upset. Last year I was wearing a chinchilla when one of you vandalized it with ink. That was OK with me because it was insured for more than it was worth. When I got a new one with the money, I got one that was a little longer (poor little critters). So to whoever was at the Kodak theater in Los Angeles last summer with the ink, a BIG thankyou! I LOVE my new chinchilla.

So until Im doing something illegal, stuff your version of morality in the burlap sack you also use as a shirt.

[meg]

aren't the olsen twins peta members? ive been to the website and they are amongst the celebrities who "endorse" peta. i suppose this is why peta is giving them such a hard time - ie the olsen twins are hypocrites.

[Helen]

I can't believe how full of themselves PETA members are. They came to my college and set up displays comparing chickens in tight quarters to people in Nazi concentration camps, and captive elephants to African-American slaves. I'm sorry, but there is no comparison AT ALL. I don't agree with needlessly abusing animals, but PETA needs to have a different approach if they want to be taken seriously.

[R Tray]

Regardless of your stance on PETA, the bottomline is that the twins need to stop endorsing the use of fur. It is a cruel and unnecessary 'fashion statement'.
More like a 'sickness statement'.

[Mark]

What on EARTH are you guys TALKING about?

1. PETA is the most successful animal rights organization in the world. It's campaigns have pressured countless companies to drastically improve the treatment of millions of animals.

2. Intelligent, emotionally complex animals on fur farms spend their lives in cages so small they develop neurotic behaviors from the stress, millions are killed by painful anal or vaginal electrocution, and animals in fur traps often spend days trying to escape, sometimes chewing off their own limbs.

[Tabitha]

Mark, they are also responsible for the death of THOUSANDS of healthy companion animals who weren't even given the CHANCE to be adopted.

Until PETA cleans out its closet, it has not right to tell anybody ANYTHING.

And for those of us with family members going through cancer and have lost their hair due to chemo, thanks for the big slap in the face.

[Jordan Pailthorpe]

Dear PETA, Animal Liberation Front and all you morally superior whackos. I respect your right to say what you wish, but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to stop acting like jealous idealogs whose such noble cause prompts such ill will onto law abiding citizens. And yes, I've seen your videos and no, I dont need psychological help.

I LOVE fur. I LOVE the way it feels. I LOVE the way it looks on me and the glamor, and I LOVE the way it makes you so upset. Last year I was wearing a chinchilla when one of you vandalized it with ink. That was OK with me because it was insured for more than it was worth. When I got a new one with the money, I got one that was a little longer (poor little critters). So to whoever was at the Kodak theater in Los Angeles last summer with the ink, a BIG thankyou! I LOVE my new chinchilla.

So until Im doing something illegal, stuff your version of morality in the burlap sack you also use as a shirt.

Posted by: Sara

hey sara,

if you truly truly believe what you just posted, you are the most ridiculous, ignorant, uneducated, heartless, shallow person i have seen in a while. wow, if i ever heard someone say those words in front of me, i would spit right in their face. "law abiding citizens"...wow. do you even think for yourself?!? Or do you just accept what the mainstream media tells you? Yeah, Martin Luther King was a crazy radical who probably shouldn't have stood up for change because you know, he should have been a "law abiding citizen" also known as, ignorant! People like you are the reason why this world is so apathetic and self centered. fuck you, you are worthless.

[Jordan Pailthorpe]

The animal rights movement seems to attract a lot of abusive people. I love animals but I do not like PETA.

I don't own any fur but I would consider buying fur just to stand up to these awful bullies.

Posted by: Patricia

HOW CAN YOU LOVE ANIMALS BUT YET SUPPORT THE SLAUGHTER OF THEM JUST TO SPITE AN ORGANIZATION THAT IS TRYING TO HELP THEM ( though not without its faults of course).

do you really understand how contradicting that statement is!?!?

[Gina Lane]

PETA only exposes the truth and as misfortunate as it is some people think it is bullying. Go to the PETA website and watch video clips of animals dying for the sake of their fur then take a glimpse of the celebrities wearing it....it makes me sick. Shame on anyone who wears fur.

[vic]

the olsen twins need the fur because anorexia has left them with no fat or ability to protect themselves from the cold whatsoever. did these girls just get liberated from some concentration camp?