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PETA Rally Heats Up With Market Square Fur Burn

POSTED: 1:20 pm EDT August 14, 2007
UPDATED: 3:17 pm EDT August 14, 2007

Event organizers with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals held a rally on Tuesday in Market Square, Downtown.

Members held the "Bonfire of the Vanities," burning a pair of leather pants, a fur coat and a wool cap.

They said they want to show shoppers that wearing animal skins is cruel, vain and outdated.


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