People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has awarded the worse accolades for celebrities this side of the Razzies – the “Celebrity Grinch Awards.”
This the first year for PETA’s “Celebrity Grinch Awards,” co-sponsored by the World Entertainment News Network, and the awards are used to call out the most animal-unfriendly celebrities of the year.
Who made the Grinch list this year? It may come to you as no small surprise that Kim Kardashian ranked high on the list. Kardashian and PETA have crossed paths before due to her love of furs. In December, PETA sponsored a Beverly Hills billboard which showed some fox cubs (or kits or pups – whatever you want to call baby foxes) on one side and Kardashian wearing a fox stole on the right. The caption read “KIM: These babies miss their mother. Is she on your back?” Subtle it wasn’t, but I am guessing it really didn’t bother Kardashian in the least anyhow.
PETA also threw in a jab about the Kardashian/Humphries wedding, saying that some thought it was fake and it’s “too bad the socialite princess doesn’t have the same enthusiasm for faking her fur.” PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange said, “Kim knows that animals on fur farms are beaten, electrocuted, and often skinned alive. We’ve explained it to her, and she’s watched a video expose that was filmed inside fur farms. When Kim is ready to put an end to her relationship with fur, PETA will be happy to take her discards and donate them to the homeless.”
If you think PETA is totally anti-Kardashian, remember that sister Khloe has appeared in a PETA anti-fur ad.
Who else was on PETA’s hit list for Grinch of the year? The organization also called out singer Janet Jackson for her love of wearing animal skins as well as her collaboration with Blackglama, which offers garments made of mink. Listed as to why she was a Grinch, PETA posted, “When Janet Jackson had her infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during the Super Bowl, at least the flesh that popped into view was her own–unlike the stolen animal skins that she drapes herself with, which are as dead as her taste in fashion (not to mention her career). Ms. Jackson, you’re just plain nasty.”
And finally, director Cameron Crowe was named a Grinch for his new film We Bought a Zoo. PETA was upset that Crowe used creatures from the “performing-animal industry – in which ‘actors’ are routinely neglected and even abused – instead of using state-of-the-art computing imaging.”