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BiographiesDes’reeBritish music sensation Des’ree, whose smash single “Life” won a World Music Award, volunteered her time to make a new anti-fur ad in which she poses as an angel in heaven, alongside the slogan, “Earn Your Wings, Lose the Fur.” Des’ree hopes that her new ad will call attention to the needless suffering inflicted each year upon the millions of fur-bearing animals who are caught in the wild in barbaric traps or are electrocuted or gassed or have their necks broken on inhumane fur farms. Derrick Bell Academic and social thinker Derrick Bell, author of the law-school standard text Race, Racism, and American Law and other critically acclaimed works, has sent a letter to David Novak, the CEO of KFC’s parent company, Yum! Brands, asking that KFC adopt the basic animal-welfare improvements recommended by PETA, which include eliminating such practices as scalding chickens to death in defeathering tanks and breeding and drugging birds so that their leg bones break under their own weight. Bell writes in his letter, “Although most people don’t know chickens as well as they know cats and dogs, chickens are interesting individuals with personalities and interests every bit as developed as the dogs and cats with whom many of us share our lives. And of course, they feel pain just like we do.” Professor Bell, who is now teaching at the New York University School of Law, is no stranger to social struggle. In 1985, he resigned from his position as dean of Oregon Law School after he was directed not to hire an Asian-American faculty candidate. He later became the first black tenured professor at Harvard Law School but eventually quit in protest of the school’s failure to hire and grant tenure to minority women.  |
