Posted on 04/08/2005 2:44:52 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot
NEW YORK - Anna Nicole Smith has canceled a trip to Newfoundland to protest the killing of seals because of concerns about safety.
The model and reality TV star had been scheduled to join a protest by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in the Canadian province. When the animal rights group learned that her security could not be guaranteed, they advised her to cancel.
"We felt it just wasn't safe to put her in that position," PETA spokesman Michael McGraw told The Associated Press Friday. "Working with activists who are protesting on the ice floe last week and again this week, they found that the seal hunters became physically violent and actually attacked many of the protesters on the ice."
Instead, Smith issued a statement on www.furisdead.com, a PETA Web site.
"The sealing industry says that it is killing more seals because of an increase in demand for fur — all fur," says Smith. "Anyone who buys a mink or fox fur coat or a jacket trimmed in fur bears responsibility for creating an environment of demand for the furs of these baby seals."
Smith also urged people to contact Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin to protest the country's hunting of seals. Every spring, seals are hunted by thousands of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears off eastern Canada.
Canada defends the practice, saying the hunt brings $16.5 million in badly needed income to coastal communities. Pelts are sold primarily to Norway, Denmark and China; the United States bans imports of seal products.
Last week, protesters and sealers clashed off the coast of Prince Edward Island where the sealers fired warning shots into the air.
Smith also appears in PETA's recent anti-fur ad campaign, posing as Marilyn Monroe with the tag line, "Gentlemen prefer fur-free blondes."
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Someone should tell her there's nothing to worry about, the hunters arent after walrus.
I expect there isn't any position you could put Anna in that she has not been in before.....
Where was she going to get the money for her little junket? She didn't get that big inheritance from old J Marshall...
She probably found out they weren't going to be serving cocktails on the flight...
I think she's safe now since she doesn't look like a whale anymore.
"We felt it just wasn't safe to put her in that position,"
I guess they were worried when they heard there wouldn't be people there to make sure she didn't fall into the water in one of her common drunken or drugged up appearances.
I doubt Anna Nicole even knows where NFLD is...
Anna couldn't attend because of the cold, and the inability to button her fur coat in front.
I expect there isn't any position you could put Anna in that she has not been in before.....
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Well someone had said that she was "into animals" but I did not think that meant PETA...Anna is a girl who has COME A LONG WAY....
Agreed. With the amount of drugs that she takes, I'll bet she feels very little pain these days. After seeing her glassy-eyed and stumbling around her house on her TV show, she wouldn't have the gumption or coordination to run from an angry seal hunter. She'd probably tell him drunkenly that he doesn't know how to accessorize.
Canadian club, on the rocks?
They probably didn't want the world to see another drugged out ranting performance. Might look bad for peta to have a stoner represent them.
got any recipes for baby harp seal?
She cancelled when she found out she wasn't actually going clubbing with Seal
Oh, c'mon! Who's gonna attack Anna Nicole Smith, lol? Just flash a little cleavage and she'd be fine -- unless they are muslim seal hunters!
Or she might have been mistaken for a disfigured whale and harpooned. The horror!
"The sealing industry says that it is killing more seals because of an increase in demand for fur — all fur," says Smith. "Anyone who buys a mink or fox fur coat or a jacket trimmed in fur bears responsibility for creating an environment of demand for the furs of these baby seals."
I personally don’t think Anna Nicole Smith is coherent enough to say that.
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