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A PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) anti-fur demonstrator storms the catwalk during French designer Christian Lacroix's Autumn/Winter 2007/08 ready-to-wear fashion collection in Paris February 28, 2007. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE) The PETA Protest Sundance Film Festival Day 2 Park City, Utah

Announced earlier today on the Lars Larsen Show, Schumacher Furs, after enduring protests from animal rights activists (read terrorists) for over a year, have announced they will close their store and move out of Portland, Oregon and Multnomah County. As all who have kept abreast of the terrorist tactics used against a legal business concern know, they have been unable to get any Police protection or assistance, at one point, even being told to "negotiate" with the animal rights terrorists. It hasn't been printed in the news yet, but is being discussed at the blog of the Victoria Taft Radio...

Beyonce Knowles has fallen fowl of animal rights charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) - because of her love of fur. In an open letter to the Crazy in Love singer in the new Billboard magazine, PETA Vice-President Dan Matthews questions the pop star's love of God if she's willing to wear fur. He writes, "Beyonce prides herself on being a good Christian girl, but surely Jesus would not condone the electrocution commonly used to kill animals for their pelts." Matthews adds, "Destiny's 'Problem' Child has ignored repeated calls and letters about her frequent appearances in pelts....

Last Updated: Thursday, 8 May, 2003, 13:59 GMT 14:59 UK "Cats 'farmed for skins in EU'" BBC News has seen evidence which suggests that cats are being farmed for their skins in the European Union. Let me say that cats and dogs are not farmed for their fur in the 15 EU member states EU commissioner David Byrne It is thought that tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of cat and dog skins are traded in Europe each year. Campaigners say that now is the time for national governments or the European Commission to act. Europe, it seems, is...

Glass Smashed, Red Paint Left On Windows, Sidewalk Posted: 5:05 p.m. EDT July 11, 2002 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The fur is fake, but the damage is real enough. Charlene Rosen, owner of Mr. Charles Shop, in State College, Pa., says anti-fur activists smashed her glass doors. She says another attack left red paint on her shop windows and sidewalk. E-mail to a college newspaper claims the Animal Liberation Front is responsible. But Rosen says the vandals can't tell real fur from fake. She has a denim jacket in her shop window with a phony fur collar. She says she...