Animal rights group throws flour on fur-clad Lohan

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PARIS – U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan has been pelted with a flour bomb on arrival at a Paris nightclub wearing a fur stole.

Animal rights activists showered the 22-year-old actress with flour when she went to the VIP Room Theater in the early hours of Saturday with her friend, disc jockey Samantha Ronson.

The owner of the nightclub helped Lohan dust off her blue sequined dress and black stole before she posed on the red carpet. Ronson went on to spin tracks for a crowd that included reggae rapper Shaggy and "I Kissed a Girl" singer Katy Perry.

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Hehe, I love anything that brings "celebs" down to the level of us mere mortals.

One can't help but like any action that puts a pie in the face of the corporate media, but really folks, shouldn't we be soaking celebs wearing nifty nylon, gortex or other space-age petro "fabrics"?

The use of non-renewable carbon based resources wreaks infinitely more havoc on the planet than fur. Also, as strange as it might seem, if folks see a value to wild animals it increases their chances of actually being willing to make sacrifices to support conservation (I know, I know, looking at a sentient living thing as a commodity is morally troubling, but have you researched the impacts of that tofu your eating? [e.g. the madness of industrial mono-cropping/global food systems, the slave labour, the destroying of the water table for irrigation, the 3000+ km it has travelled to your plate, the farmers that have been driven off the land by the multi-national corporation that grows the crop, the eco-systems and animal populations that have been devastated by this kind of agriculture, etc... etc..]).

Stars and celebs are human cancer but fur is not the problem, capitalism is.
If one traps their own fur (not using leg holds or snares that don't kill instantaneously) or uses post consumer fur and makes awesomely stylish winter duds without contributing a penny to the system that is destroying the planet, and every living thing on it, one has attained a level of ethical consumption that is light years ahead of anyone trying to pawn off their petrol parka as "the right thing to do" .

The fur industry is wrong, the homogenized concentrated corporate media is wrong, but use of animals in a local holistic D.I.Y. systems is the only hope we have for sustainable living for all animals, us included. So get over it and start growing your own food and clothing or shut up.