Sophie Ellis Bextor Says, ‘Read My Lips, Don’t Wear Fur’

Singer Sophie Ellis Bextor’s new single “Catch You” looks set to skyrocket to the top of the charts, but it’s her refusal to kill animals for fur that has caring fans all around the world singing the praises of the sultry songbird.

Sophie posed for a hard-hitting PETA anti-fur ad shot by Mary McCartney, the eldest daughter of the late Linda McCartney and former Beatle Sir Paul. In the ad, Sophie looks stunning in an evening gown – except for the gruesome accessory she holds in her hand: a dead, skinned fox.

“I’m part of the generation that grew up with the ‘We’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur’ campaign in the … early 90s, and it’s something that really struck a chord with me, and to me it felt a very natural thing to do”, says Sophie, “that you’d obviously be on the side of the animals when it came to fur”.

There’s nothing glamorous about killing animals for their fur. In the wild, animals caught in bone-crushing steel-jaw traps can suffer for days, slowly dying from hunger, thirst, disease, blood loss and predation. Trappers who find still-conscious victims kill the animals by beating, bludgeoning and/or drowning them. On fur farms, animals kept in cramped, filthy cages go insane from stress. If the animals don’t die from disease, harsh elements or attacks by frustrated cagemates, fur farmers eventually kill them by poisoning, gassing or crushing them or by snapping their necks.

Sophie Ellis Bextor, a firm believer in dressing to the nines, agrees that animals shouldn’t be fashion victims. “I think it’s a really pathetic thing to do, especially when there are so many alternatives”, she notes.

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