Tell Harper’s Bazaar – Real Baby Leopards Are Not Spring Fashion
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Leopard print isn’t just an accessory anymore. Shockingly, we’re seeing companies using real leopards in their advertising campaigns –especially baby leopards. Just last month, HARPER’S BAZAAR featured a baby leopard as part of their January Spring Fashion Preview cover shot.
The sad fact is that, with companies like HARPER’S BAZAAR hiring breeders and exhibitors of wild animals, this contributes to the rampant breeding and trade in these animals. Captive leopards, living well into their twenties, grow and become more dangerous, more expensive to care for, and more often a liability.
Regulations vary from state to state. What happens to these animals when they’re no longer “cute” and profitable? Accredited zoos won’t take them and accredited sanctuaries are overflowing with castoffs.
With so few inspectors available, it’s difficult to trace where they eventually end up. They often just disappear. Wild animals are traded illegally—to the tune of $10 billion or more globally each year, an amount second only to arms and drug smuggling.
Though companies like HARPER’S BAZAAR feel they fulfill their obligation by assuring humane treatment during the shoot, does corporate responsibility really end when the photo shoot ends? By using them this way, the demand they create for these animals often contributes to a lifetime of abuse.Please submit your comments via the website address below and then sign a pre-written letter letting HARPER’S BAZAAR know that their use of wild animals in their advertisements is unacceptable, inhumane, and must stop.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Harper’s Bazaar Webform for comments HERE
Harper’s Bazaar Phone: (212) 903-5000
American Advertising Federation Phone: (800) 999-2231
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hello harpers bazaar
where is your head
leopards are not accessories
too many times they
wind up dead
…humane treatment
during the shoot
what about the
before and after
your rationale?
moot
animals are beings living
they are not
creatures of fashion
make preserving them
as god made them
your forever
life passion
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
Our Compass 
hello harpers bazaar
where is your head
leopards are not accessories
too many times they
wind up dead
…humane treatment
during the shoot
what about the
before and after
your rationale?
moot
animals are beings living
they are not
creatures of fashion
make preserving them
as god made them
your forever
life passion
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Animals are NOT fashion accessories.
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Losers! Look at that wonderful baby, so frightened! Some people would exploit their mothers just to make money. Thanks Stacey xox
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