Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard strips for PETA

Posted by Marc | 8-08-2008 23:01 | Category: Animal rights

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I thought I had seen enough ‘Don’t Wear Fur’ campaigns from PETA, but in this case the timing is perfect. This time it is U.S. Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard who strips for PETA.
Beard appears next to the tagline “Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin. Don’t Wear Fur.” The two-time Olympic gold medalist and U.S. team captain will unveil the ad just days before the start of the Beijing Games, her fourth Olympics.


"[T]o see animals ... slaughtered to be worn as fashion is awful to me, so I’m definitely against wearing fur,” says Beard, who at age 14 won two silver medals and one gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics before winning gold again in Greece. Asked if she had any reservations about posing nude in order to bare the truth about the fur industry, Beard offered a resounding “No.” “I’d much rather go naked than ever put a dead animal on my body,” she says.

Amanda Beard tells a little bit more from Beijng about the campaign in the LA Times.

In the video below Amanda Beard discusses why she chooses to go naked instead of wearing fur.


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Posted by majid | 9-12-2008 22:24


More exploitation of women by PETA. While at the same time, they fight against the exploitation of animals. Anyone else see the hypocrisy here?

Posted by Jackie | 10-01-2009 07:02


Jackie I really agree with you - I appreciate all that PETA has done for vegetarianism/veganism, and for animal rights in general, but these naked-women-against-fur posters that they have been making since over a decade ago should end.. they are sexist and bias - they show us the perfect female, being that most of their posters are of white, skinny women, and only a few black women and a few men - they had one with an asian women and one with a latin woman, and that was it.. it’s a bit poorely - they should drop this, find a new concept - this one is getting old.

Posted by sara | 17-01-2009 14:25

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