PETA To Protest Mary-Kate & Ashley Book Signing
October 27, 2008 by Erin Balser
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen will be signing copies of their new book Influence at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square tomorrow evening and PETA is going to be there, protesting the girls use of fur. The group is gathering at noon in Union Square to stage the day-long process.
“From their ghoulish garb to their skeletal frames, every day is Halloween if you’re an Olsen twin,” Dan Shannon, PETA’s assistant director of youth campaigns, said in their press release. “It’s frightening how out of touch Mary-Kate and Ashley are–no industry is more violent or bloody than the fur trade.”
PETA has been on the rampage for MK and Ashley, calling them Hairy-Kate and Trashley Trollsen, creating a website where you can dress the girls in animal blood and giving away free Halloween costumes of the girls. When will it end?
I really don’t see how attacking celebrities who wear fur as the most effective way to get your point across. But PETA has never been about effectiveness, it’s about sensationalization.