Animal lovers upset with Bartiromo

Richard Johnson of The New York Post writes that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is upset with CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo about her wearing a fur coat and gushing about its fox fur.

Johnson wrote, “In More magazine’s September feature on fashionable female movers and shakers over 40, CNBC’s ‘Money Honey’ is seen smiling seductively in a skin-tight Celine matte jersey dress and the Kors coat. She raves: ‘Chic, sexy clothes are the real me . . . The coat is spectacular; the fur cuffs give it just the right amount of glamour.’

“PETA spokesman Michael McGraw fumed to Page Six: ‘There’s nothing glamorous about animal electrocution, which is one of the most common methods used to kill foxes for their pelts. She looks morally bankrupt in that fur. All that time around the closing bell must be turning her into a real ding-a-ling.’ Strangely, Bartiromo’s flack insisted that despite the More article, the newswoman doesn’t approve of fur, doesn’t own any and that wearing the coat for the shoot was a ‘mistake.'”

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