PETA's senior vice president Lisa Lange reaches out to the 'Lift Me Up' songstress and sends her a faux fur alternative after she was recently spotted wearing what looks like a real fur coat.
- Feb 27, 2023
AceShowbiz - The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals hopes to change Rihanna's mind about wearing fur by touching on her maternal side. PETA has reached out to the Barbadian singer after she appeared to be wearing real fur at a recent outing.
Rih was photographed wearing what looks like a full-length fur coat while stepping out for dinner last week. The 35-year-old's apparent love for fur has sparked concern from PETA, which has since sent her a letter, urging her to give up wearing fur.
In a letter obtained by TMZ, PETA's senior vice president Lisa Lange tried to appeal to the "Umbrella" hitmaker's maternal side. "As a mother, you know what it's like to feel protective and to want to make sure no harm comes to your family," she wrote.
"Please understand that this desire -- this instinct even -- is shared by the minks, foxes, and rabbits who are torn away from their families and killed for their fur," she continued. "Won't you please help create a kinder world for your children to grow up in by deciding today that you'll no longer wear fur?"
The animal rights nonprofit organization offers to take any of Rihanna's fur clothes off her hands and donate them to survivors of the recent earthquakes in Syria and Turkey. They say those folks truly have an excuse to wear real fur because they lost everything and now have to survive winter.
"You have so much," PETA wrote, "won't you please spare the animals who ask for nothing more but to be left alone to live with their loved ones, free from electrocutions, gassings and beatings that are the standard in the fur industry, and donate your furs to a good cause?"
PETA also said they're sending Rih a faux fur coat from Unreal Fur, which they say will help her "stay warm and fashionable while making the cruelty-free switch."
Rihanna has not publicly responded to PETA's plea. She has been wearing real fur for years, although her Fenty Beauty takes pride in its ethnically-sourced cruelty-free line.
