Animals - Man's Best Friends?

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The following article was published in the "Time" magazine.

"The Furore over Wearing Fur"
Reported by Scott Brown/Los Angeles and Andrea Sachs/New York
When Anna La Barbera, a 33-year-old psychotherapist from White Plains, N.Y., bought a silver fox coat in 1984, she did so with joy and absolutely no hesitation. She would like to replace the aging fur, however, and she is in a quandary. "There's nothing like the warmth of fur," she says. But her physician husband is concerned about animal rights, and the arguments of anti fur activists have moved her. "l've been struggling with the dilemma of buying fur," says La Barbera. "I like the look, but I feel real guilty." She is now shopping for good-quality wool coats as well as for furs.
La Barbera's dilemma is increasingly common among American women. Until recently, owning a fur coat, usually a mink, was an unquestioned emblem of

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