WHILE Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s honeymoon visit to Limerick gave the region’s tourism industry a welcome shot in the arm, local animal rights activist John Carmody is only sorry he didn’t get an opportunity to express his total disgust at the celebrity couple’s love of fur.
Mr Carmody, founder of the Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN), last week vowed to ‘hunt down’ the celebrity couple, to show his outrage at the stars’ frequent wearing of fur. Alas, due to the fleeting nature of Kimye’s visit to Ardpatrick in County Limerick, a proposed anti-fur protest outside Castle Oliver never got off the ground.
“They are not only in love, but also in love with the wearing of countless dead animals on their backs. We’re hoping that they can divorce their addiction to wearing the skins of tormented, tortured, dead animals and replace it with faux fur,” he said.
Reality TV show star Kim Kardashian recently made a point of wearing a fox fur scarf while out on the town in New York, just a week after her sister Khloe, a one-time animal rights activist, sported a faux fur coat with a bold anti-fur slogan painted on the back in red paint.
According to ARAN, every year millions of animals are trapped, drowned and beaten to death in the wild, and are strangled, gassed and electrocuted on fur farms. Mr Carmody claims that in Ireland alone, over 200,000 animals are locked in small wire mesh cages before being gassed to death.
