So I am right to assume that Basso is just another designer obtaining his pelts in the same way as millions of others then. Which makes him no better....but no worse, and before I get verbally slapped for this, think.....if you have so much as ever bought a pair of Gucci sunglasses you may as well have bought a Basso coat.
I just think protesting at QVC at a man that is there to sell artifical fur is a bit daft. OK, so he has other business seperate from QVC, and lets say you finally get what you want and force QVC to terminate whatever agreement they have, what then? Basso goes back to America and continues to make real fur items for the rich and famous, that very thing that has made him where he is today.
I would rather see some effort put into getting some ethics put into the auction house system as to me this is where the problem is. Sadly no one else seems to have seen the programme that I did. The auction houses do not care where the pelts come from and have furs from barbaric sources in the same lots as humane farms and trappers.
It would surely be a step in the right direction to encourage a system that ostracised pelts from certain places, dealing only with farms that were regularly checked for their practices and that were making full use of the entire thing? This way at least it could almost outlaw such cruelty as skinning alive, which no one in their right mind really finds acceptable.
I'm not very keen on physical protests outside of other peoples property, it is too much like stamping your feet to get what you want, a form of bullying. QVC are entitled to sell these items and deal with Basso if they choose to, I think emails are as far as it should go.
