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  • 2018-01-22 (xsd:date)
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  • Was This White Fox Skinned Alive for Lady Gaga's Fur Coat? (en)
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  • A set of unrelated images, one showing Lady Gaga wearing a (possibly fake) fur accessory, the other showing a baby fox in a cage, has been passed around the internet with a variety of messages claiming that that this animal was brutally killed and made into a clothing item for the famous singer. Here's how the Facebook page Humans Heart Animals presented these images in February 2017: These photographs were also featured in a petition on the web site DailyPetitions.com and in an article on the web site DogsMakeLifeBetter.com. Both of these stories claimed that this fox was skinned alive and that the customer who bought its fur was none other than Lady Gaga: These photographs are both real. However, they are not related to one another. The photograph of Lady Gaga was taken in 2012. It stirred up considerable controversy at the time when animal rights groups such as PETA criticized the singer for wearing fur. Lady Gaga never confirmed whether the fox accessory was made of real or faux fur, but she did say that she always stayed away from skinned fur in a message posted to her web site (emphasis ours): While Lady Gaga dodges a direct answer on whether this particular coat was made from real fox fur, it was certainly not made from the animal pictured above. Two years after Lady Gaga was photographed with her fox fur, a baby fox named Kimi was scheduled to be slaughtered at a fur farm in Finland. The animal rights group Four Paws shared several photographs of this fox (including the one above) as part of a campaign to prevent Kimi being killed and turned into a clothing item. The Independent reported at the time: Burberry released a statement explaining that animal welfare was a key consideration when acquiring fur for their clothing items: Although we aren't certain about Kimi's ultimate fate (the final entry on the Four Paws campaign was posted in December 2014 and stated that Kimi was still alive), the fur from this particular baby fox certainly wasn't used for a clothing item Lady Gaga wore in 2012. (en)
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