PETA is taking its anti-fur road show to Japan this month. And I really don’t know where to begin with Aya Sugimoto, the “actress” they chose to parade in the buff for the “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” photo-op.
The whole point of going naked “for a cause” is the shock value for fans who don’t expect to see you naked. But it takes about 5 minutes with Google to figure out that Sugimoto is best known for a certain genre of Japanese soft-core pornography that leaves very little to the imagination. Watch the trailer for Sugimoto’s latest cinematic release for an idea of what I mean, or read this DVD review of a 2004 Sugimoto film described in even more lurid detail.
In other words, a PETA placard whining about mink coats probably constituted a pretty significant photo-shoot wardrobe for Sugimoto. Of course, Westerners aren’t supposed to know this about her. And PETA expects us to think slender 40-year-old Japanese women all look alike anyway.
But here’s the really fun part. Sugimoto also has several product lines of her own, including a range of beauty products called “Un Destino.” One of the companies that makes Un Destino’s ingredients writes that they include “placenta extract,” among other things. You know — from placenta. Not exactly a model that PETA would ever endorse.
So I got curious about what other animal products might be lurking in the stuff PETA’s newest Asian spokesnudie promotes. Another ten minutes with Google’s translator, and faster than you can say とらえた (that’s Japanese for “gotcha”) … well, you be the judge.
Un Destino’s “Sabinna” supplement pills include:
- N-acetylglucosamine, derived from crabs and shrimp; and
- red and white mucopolysaccharide complex derived from salmon.
Hey! Doesn’t PETA have a huge campaign against killing fish, crustaceans, and other seafood? Yep.
PETA’s also not a big fan of wearing leather. Guess who disagrees?
This is from Japan Today:
Asked about leather products, she said she still continues to buy them because “leather production is different from fur production.” However, Sugimoto said she has never visited fur production facilities but had seen photos and movies of them on the Internet.
Another one bites the dust. Any of you die-hard PETAphiles out there want to defend this Far East faker?
PETA? Anyone?
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Sure, I’ll defend Aya Sugimoto… and the dump truck full of money I’m sure she got from PETA for this campaign. PETA would do well to more throughly research their “celebrity” spokepeople, but it’s their organization they can do with it what they wish.
Sorry, Mom! Wowie.
She’s just my type of woman. Naked, breathing, and stupid.
They can’t find any stupid drones in America, they have to spread their crap overseas?
How are the cows treated in comprasions to the fur animals? Do they get a spa treatment>
“more throughly research their “celebrity””….sign me up for that!
I would gladly research more of Aya Sugimoto, up close and personal!
Is she really 40?
I’m pretty sure she’s one of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbFFs4DHWys
I’m a humble woman, but people like this kind of disgust me. I don’t know why she’s joining this campaign, if she has no idea what it’s about!
No apologies necessary, sheesh. I’m no PETA fan, in fact I find it downright hilarious that they pick these ‘celebrities’ that claim to support PETA but whose actions don’t reflect it (hello, Pam!). However, in this case, I do not see what about Aya Sugimoto is hypocritical. She’s in an anti-fur campaign, not an anti-leather campaign, so that is consistent with what she was quoted as saying prior to accepting the campaign. I can’t find anything about her otherwise praising PETA, so the way I see it, PETA effed up by selecting her, not the other way around.
Nice looking and not too bright, just the type of girl I have been looking for.
Eh, PeTA isn’t really trying anymore. But anyone ever wonder why the e which stands for ethical is lowercase in their logo? Isn’t the ethical part the important part?
Hmm, that movie is a remake (I guess the laziness of Hollywood has reached the Far East) and it has a sequel. Guess I know what I’m watching this weekend.
We don’t get PeTA ads where I come from. This is kind of funny… DUMB!!
The reason PETA has to use these people, who aren’t quite in line with their effed up beliefs, is that most hardcore PETA supporters are:
a. unshaven, dirty hippies.
b. look like they are in the last stages of TB thanks to their diets.
c. in no way famous.
d. all of the above.
Is it awful that all I could think is ‘Oh my god she’s 40?’ I’m 16 years younger then she is, and I am nowhere near as fit and my skin is rubbish. I might need to start using this Un Destino stuff..
Looks like a good candidate for a little off-shore drilling.
Come on guys, its not an all out ‘either/or’ thing, so trying to push it to extremes … its incremental.
Getting women who have that certain blend of arrogance, stupidity and vanity women (did someone mention Italian or Russian) to stop supporting the fur industry is a fine step in itself. The world can always become vegan the day after.
From an animal rights, environmental point of view, I am not a great fan of Peta and Greenpease merely because they act like multinational corporations and suck up all the available financial donations in any territory they enter keeping them from being spread around to more local or ’serious’ campaigning organizations. There are many such fine ones such a the various anti-vivisection leagues …
The problem is that science and ethical debate are just not so consumable as nudie pictures of cuties in this superficial, soundbite world we live in.
oh, leather production is different from fur production? reeeeeally? how? what a fool.
hey u said ppl disgusting how about yourself ? as if u got the figure dude ?
“katie Sep 24th, 2008 at 4:10 am
oh, leather production is different from fur production? reeeeeally? how? what a fool.”
As a taxidermist, I feel obliged to point out that they are indeed different processes. But the only difference is in the chemicals used. Leather tanning uses chemicals that make the skin let go of the fur, fur tanning uses chemicals that make the skin hold on tight to it. So Sugimoto is right in the sense that they’re different, but…it’s only on a microscopic level. The animals are treated exactly the same in both industries. FAIL.
Heck, the only animal product industry that treats its animals nicely is the Kobe beef industry in Japan. Their cows are raised on the finest foods, are given wine with every meal, get a daily massage, and are killed quickly and painlessly (all for the sake of tender meat). Of course, the meat is a few hundred dollars per pound, but there’s a market for that kind of delicacy.
Doing taxidermy has made me a vegetarian. I can’t eat meat anymore. Furthermore, I don’t wear leather or fur…I deal with enough animal skin in my daily life. But that is in no way because of PeTA. Those people are crazy.
I didn’t know she was a pop star before, but if you look at her old vids and new vids, she’s had plastic surgery, but dang, she still looks hot for a 40 year old
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/aya-sugimoto-much-more-than-peta/