Great campaign!!

Thank you PETA for standing up for these villinized animals. They are beautiful, graceful and intelligent. Turning them into an object is downright sacreligious.

You are one of the few groups who will show love and respect for this type of creature. Bless you.

Posted by: Maya, CVT | April 3, 2008 04:08 PM

Love the new ads!

Posted by: HannaBanana | April 3, 2008 04:14 PM

2 very powerful ads that really get their point across. Good work, PETA.

Posted by: Pamela Oates | April 3, 2008 04:58 PM

i love these adds! <33

Posted by: Lily | April 3, 2008 06:47 PM

If it works, that's all that matters. But here's my problem with it. It may cast the animals themselves as creep-inducing..I'm thinking rather to play up something that belongs rightfully to an animal but is so wrong on a human. ie. being cold-blooded is fitting and awesome in both the snake and alligator (croc?) but not such a nice characteristic of a human. Something along those lines.

Posted by: lynda downie | April 4, 2008 01:20 AM

These are such AWESOME ads! I especially love the croc one. What is so trendy about wearing an amazing animal as an accessory anyways?

Posted by: jessica dyer | April 4, 2008 08:37 AM

These are AWSOME! What genuis came up with these ads? I love them and I hope the people who support these cruel fashions open their eyes and see what it really means to wear animal skins.

Posted by: Cali | April 4, 2008 09:22 AM

These are just fantastic ads, I really think that people will think twice after seeing them.

Nice one Jack - nice one PETA!

Your friendly neighbourhood Matt! (Looking after the UK blog whilst the cat is away!)

Posted by: Matt | April 4, 2008 10:01 AM

I was thinking that the pictures with the caption 'You'd have to be cold-blooded to wear her skin' would be a good idea. But Peta is the marketing specialist. An overwhelming positive response to the ad by the posters -a good indication that it'll appeal to the public. Let 'er loose!

Posted by: lynda downie | April 5, 2008 01:05 AM

Keep up the good work! I only buy fake fur or skin (if I ever buy fur and skin, which isn't often.) and I'm glad that other people are being encouraged to give it up! Thank you!!

Posted by: fillysunray | April 5, 2008 10:26 AM

This is one of the best poems ever

Let's Not Forget

Your "meat" comes from a creature who has met
A hideous and most untimely death
Nor is it seemly when upon your dish
Lie corpses of a murdered bird or fish.

One fleeting glimpse of any factory farm
Would make the vilest soul cry in alarm.
The chickens, cows and pigs - their lives obscene
Degraded to meat, milk and egg machines.

The cows, their fate sealed at the slaughter house,
Can hear their friends in front of them cry out.
If we pretend that of this they know not,
We grossly underestimate their lot.

The chickens, five crammed tightly to a cage
Oft peck their mates in frightened fits of rage.
The light which blinds these creatures night and day
Adds sin and cruelty to each egg they lay.

The male chicks not appealing to our taste,
Are tossed alive in bags to our great haste.
This writhing heap of bodies is no lie.
Eventually, they suffocate and die.

To better understand a dairy cow
Try picturing this horrid scene somehow:
You're pumped with drugs, you're pregnant and you hurt.
And then your child is robbed from you at birth.

She is no mere automaton, I say.
She mourns the loss of her child several days.
The farmers steal your milk from you and then
For profit's sake, they knock you up again.

The child, a girl will share her mother's fate
If he's a boy, he's off to the veal crate -
A squalid, filthy stall not two feet wide.
He ne'er sees light and cannot turn inside.

A pig's life is the cruellest life around.
The female lies immobile on the ground.
The males can sexually enter her at will.
Her infants suck her nipples through a grill.

Since they've no space, insanity prevails.
And normally, they'd bite each others tails.
For farmers, this would cause a profit drain.
So tails are yanked at birth with squeals of pain.

The more we hide from these injustices
The less we find we know what justice is.
We spare our cats and dogs from such "misuse",
So why allow the other cruel abuse?

These are no more automatons, I say.
They're feeling creatures tortured night and day.
By people who in numbness feel no more,
For use by us who in our haste, ignore!

Here is a cause that rests on naught but us
And though at first we kick and scream and fuss,
We find in time a wholeness that will last
Despite the horrors of our actions past.

Those of religion, here's a truth today.
In front of you. It will not go away.
This is your trial; if you should shut it out.
Then, say, what is religion all about?

Copyright © 1995-2004 by Mohan Embar. All Rights Reserved

Posted by: prosam94 | April 7, 2008 08:37 AM

GOOD!
I always get fake leather. And i don't wear any animal skins OR furs.
But yea, I had to order my studded belt on line because the store didn't have pleather! but I sure didn't mind waiting a couple weeks for it to be shipped, instead of buying real leather at the store!

Posted by: amber Falobas | April 7, 2008 10:21 AM

Dude...you guys need to grow some balls....animals are cute yes but also a necessity for survial. That is why we're on the TOP. Jesus Christ, people kill animals. Period. Always have and always will. And you small majority WILL NOT change it.. So accept the fact that people kill animals.

Posted by: Tyler | April 7, 2008 08:21 PM

GREAT GREAT ads! I LOVE Peta's creative and marketing team!

Posted by: Jaclyn | April 8, 2008 10:50 AM

I love these pictures, it made me want to purchase a new belt!

Posted by: Juan Mercado | April 8, 2008 11:39 AM

GO TYLER!

Thank you, for understanding that animals are below us, and quite necessary for survival. are ancestors killed animals for food and shelter, and for tools. We must be kind to them, yes, but they are also SO delicious!

Posted by: MEATEATER | April 8, 2008 12:52 PM

Thank you for a non-sexist or otherwise hatefl campaign! I dig it!

Posted by: mariri | April 8, 2008 04:49 PM

continue peta you are going very well

Posted by: lekas | April 9, 2008 09:01 AM

I hope everyone who wheres an animal can see what im about to write..

Would you like it if i made a coat outta ur mom?

Or a hangbag outta ur sister?

And WHAT IF i was that greedy i mine as wel make matching shoes outta ur brother, and sure what the heck, i need a new belt from ur dad

Does that sound right to u???!!!

OF COURSE NOT!

soo why is it any different from animals???

They breath and live and have family

PLANTS even feel pain, studies show if u assult a plant, it screams, im dead serious, yes it may sound "funny" but im trying to make a point,

Animals are living beautiful creatures smarter than the humand kind,

Can you sense a storm coming by using ur nose?

CAn u smell cancer in a human body?

Are you courageous enough to work as a search and rescue???

NO, u would rather live and breath murdering these animals,

I bet those animal torturers wouldnt even have the heart to help a blind man.

There was a loyal black lab who push a blind man outta the way and the dog got ran over, the dog survived thank havens and the blind man was great, but u dont relize how much we need animals in our world, my BESTEST friend r my pets and every animal i meet, i dont give a crap what people think of me,

and at school im made fun of really bad cause i would rather spend my frienday night signing petitions and trying to get people to join PETA, so far i have got over 10 people and im glad to say that =)

I LOVE ANIMALS AND PETA!

PEACEE! i will always live and fight for my dreams =)

and i hope u all do too =)

Love and Peace!

Posted by: Julianne | May 2, 2008 01:01 AM