We will not be watching Pink’s controversial, and apparently pretty gruesome anti-Australian wool PETA video. (We’re total animal freaks who cry at the mere mention of Gorillas in the Mist.) But you might want to. The pop star is so convincing in it that Australia’s treasurer, Peter Costello, has reportedly responded to Pink’s comments and invited the singer to meet with (the soon-to-be-starving presumably doe-eyed and cherubic children of) Australian wool farmers whose livelihood she’s condemning. “Pink is entitled to her views but at the end of the day would Australia’s farmers take advice from Pink?” he reportedly said. Of course not, dude. No one expects that farmers will abandon mulesing (the procedure to which PETA objects) based on the whining of an American pop star, but if all of Pink’s fans boycott cute little merino wool cropped sweaters this winter, the industry could really feel it.
Does it annoy you when artists pick a pet cause and tout it like this, or do you respect the idea that they’re using their celebrity for a good cause?

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