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PETA isn’t feeling those Fox Fur Beats By Oscar de la Renta limited edition headphones we wrote about yesterday! 

The animal rights group has sent GlobalGrind a letter it intends to send to Dr. Dre, calling him to, for lack of a better word, dead his partnership with the noted designer.

PETA Patrol: $695 Fox Fur Beats By Oscar de la Renta Headphones Are On Sale!

The letter is below:

January 6, 2012

To:       Dr. Dre, c/o Kate Licht

From:   Michelle Cho

Dear Dre,

I hope this message finds you well. As you may know, PETA is the largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 3 million members and supporters dedicated to the protection of animals. You have many fans here.

We’re writing today after reading about your new fox-fur headphones design with Oscar de la Renta. We wanted to get in touch to urge you to keep fur and exotic-animal skins out of your Beats by Dre designs. Foxes, minks, rabbits, and other animals—including cats and dogs—are bludgeoned, genitally electrocuted, strangled with wire nooses, drowned, and even skinned alive for their pelts. Most animals killed for their fur are slaughtered in China, where there are no penalties for those who abuse animals on fur farms.

Please take a moment to view this short video on the fur trade, hosted by actor Eva Mendes.

With so many fashionable, cruelty-free materials available these days, we hope that you will keep animals in mind and choose not to use fur or exotic skins in your collection. You’d be joining designers such as Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Marc Bouwer, and Vivienne Westwood, who have banned fur from their designs.

You have a tremendous amount of influence on young people—won’t you please consider using your platform to advocate kindness toward animals by pledging never to design with real fur and exotic skins?

Thank you so much for your time and attention. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at 323-210-2204 or MichelleC@peta.org.

With kind regards,

Michelle Cho

PETA

What do you all think?  Do you think Dr. Dre should drop the headphones?  Tell us your thoughts, we want to know your reaction to PETA’s letter.