14 DAY TRIAL // PETA really doesn't like to see people wearing either fur or leather, and it has many times voiced its complaints against fashion designers and clothing retailers that market products made from these materials.
Hence, it might come as a bit of a shock that, this past Monday, the organization gave a bunch of people in Detroit about 100 fur coats, several leather jackets, even wool scarves and angora sweaters.
On its website, the organization details it only donated these products as part of a collaboration with Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries and Bethlehem House.
Thus, the coats, jackets, scarves, and sweaters are to be worn by people who don't have a proper home and who therefore need help making it through the winter.
“PETA has long said that only people who are truly struggling to survive have any excuse for wearing fur, and on Monday, with temperatures well below freezing, we drove that point home,” the organization writes on its website.
“As many in Detroit suffer during the city’s economic crisis, PETA teamed up with Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries and Bethlehem House to give away 100 fur coats – as well as leather jackets, wool scarves, and angora sweaters – to some of the city’s neediest residents,” it adds.
The organization is now asking that people who own such clothing items consider donating them and purchasing new and cruelty-free ones for themselves.