Barbi Benton Quotes

There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.

Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.

I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.

I got with PETA for a fur campaign, specifically for fur.

I've had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I found some there with fur trim, which is just as disgusting. Foie gras production is appalling - there's no excuse for selling it.

Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It's a billion dollar industry.

Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

Not only is fur cruel, it's also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me!

Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed.

I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA.

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.

[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear.

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.

I think I had a fur coat that someone bought me from Portobello Market back in the 1960s, but I think as soon as you think about it, what it is you're wearing, make that connection, then you realise it's just not right. I don't lecture people about it, but it's not something I'd ever wear.

It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.