PETA is promoting its real-fur amnesty this winter by donating coats it has received from those renouncing fur to London department store Liberty's annual coat drive for the homeless. Liberty has a long-standing policy against selling fur.
"Thanks to dozens of donors who dumped their furs in favour of kindness, PETA is able to send a vital message about having compassion for animals this winter - and that only people desperately lacking basic necessities have any excuse to wear fur," PETA director Mimi Bekhechi told us. "We're calling on kind people to keep the homeless in their hearts this Christmas and to show compassion for animals at the same time by donating any real fur items to those in need."
Several celebrities - including Mariah Carey, Kim Cattrall and Debbie Harry - have chosen to donate their animal-skin coats to PETA or its affiliates. PETA carried out a similar coat drive for the homeless last year in Detroit, giving 100 fur coats and jackets to homeless people during the city's freezing winter.
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