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We have received a few interesting responses to our previous post about the Miss Florida USA pageant and a pre-taping event last month that featured contestants modeling fur coats. (The Fur Information Council of America is a sponsor of the pageant and provides fur coats as “prizes” for the winners).

When we first saw photos from the pre-taping, we considered that perhaps the contestants did not feel that they could refuse to model the coats. An e-mail from a former preliminary pageant director who wished to remain anonymous confirmed our suspicions. She wrote, “One of the many reasons I quit was the barbaric way the Miss Florida USA directors paraded the girls around in fur coats, fur stoles and fur vests! Even when the girls protest against wearing a fur they are made fun of and made to feel that they will not win if they do not participate in the ‘fur’ pre-taping.”

ARFF will hold an anti-fur demonstration outside the pageant finals on Saturday, July 18 at Broward Community College’s Bailey Hall in Davie. Please join us!

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