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ER
Doc Goes to the Dogs
Croatia's most famous export, actor Goran Visnjic, costar of the international
smash TV series ER, and Animal Friends Croatia (AFC) have
joined with international pressure group People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals (PETA) in launching its first anti-fur campaign in Eastern
Europe.
The arresting image was launched in Goran's native Croatia-PETA's
first-ever campaign in Eastern Europe-on billboards in Zagreb and
Split, as well as on leaflets that members of Animal
Friends Croatia will hand out to fur-wearers walking their dogs
in parks. The ER doc's prescription for fur-free fashions
will also be plastered on billboards and leaflets around the United
States.
Goran was inspired to speak out after seeing a magazine spread featuring
fur. “[My wife and I] were disgusted,” he says. “What’s
going on? Civilization is advancing, but some people are going backwards.
Today we can use many different
materials to warm ourselves without killing other beings. [Ninety
percent] of the people seeing a person wearing a fur coat think that
person is an idiot.”
Goran believes that animal protection is an issue that crosses all
political and social boundaries. “Somebody once asked me, when
war was happening in my country, why don’t you do more for humans,
against wars?” he says. “It’s our own stupidity
that people are so violent to each other. What people do to animals
is a one-sided war, and animals are innocent and cannot protect themselves.
It’s important to be a protector of this planet, not a destroyer.”
Help Goran spread the message about fur-industry cruelty by distributing
leaflets at dog
parks in your area. One look at this debonair duo and folks might
just hang up their minks once and for all.
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