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Fur Better or Worse

I enjoy reading your magazine when it comes through the door every month, but following the January fashion column I now feel reluctant to look at any future issues, in case there are more upsetting/offensive articles. I really think that the writer should have considered his/her readers' feelings/opinions on such a controversial subject before writing such a piece.

What I was most upset by was that the pictures for this article were purely fashion and thus could influence people to buy fur products. I feel very strongly that, as the article had references to native people in their countries wearing fur, there should have been pictures of this, rather than purely fashion ones!!
No serious fashionista these days would wear such horrifically offensive garments. I think it would have made the article easier to digest if there had been native Canadians wearing their fur, as it would have made people think a bit more and actually take in what they were reading, rather than be grossly repulsed by the picture content.

I understand that the magazine does not censor articles, but on such a strongly divided subject, more care could have been taken to get the balance right. These pictures make your magazine look as if it does not take the killing of defenceless animals for fashion purposes seriously at all!!

There was also the titling for this article – it was on the FRONT COVER of your magazine and was billed ‘Fur in Fashion’. I am completely speechless that that would be the title of this article, rather than something more articulate, and I am shocked that it was put on the front cover. Does your magazine not see how influential these things can be ?

29 January 2010
Letter by: Alex Merryweather

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