Fur in Fashion Debate: Is it okay to use animal products for fashion? – Today’s Biggest News

Описание: One of the world's most famous fashion brands has decided to stop using real animal fur in its clothing. It's part of a growing movement in the fashion industry and something animal rights activists have been campaigning for, for a long time.

Prada is an Italian luxury brand that makes very, very expensive things like this $30,000 hand bag. I would know because I am a fashionista myself. That's definitely a real photo.

Now the fashion house has announced that starting next year all of their new products won't use animal fur. Prada's been under a lot of pressure from consumers and animal rights groups who say it's cruel to kill an animal and use its skin for fashion and they're not the first major brand to ditch fur.

While many are happy with the decision, some still don't have a problem with fur and argue that there are times when it might go to waste if the animals are already being killed for food or environmental reasons.

Others reckon the ban doesn't go far enough, saying it should also include animal products like leather and crocodile skin.

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DRONES COLLECTING WHALE BOOGERS

What's the best way to learn more about whale populations? By catching their snot of course! As you can imagine, that's as tricky as it sounds. Instead of using whale sized tissues, waterproof drones are collecting the boogers that fly out of a whales blowhole. The scientists say they can learn a lot about whales like they kinds of bacteria & viruses that are in their bodies and apparently it can also tell them if a whale is pregnant!

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JAPANESE LAST NAMES

This is Shinzo Abe. he's the Japanese PM and it turns out we, and pretty much everyone in the international media, has been saying his name & a lot of other Japanese names wrong.

You see, in Japan, surnames come before first names so Shinzo Abe should actually be Abe Shinzo.

For a long time people in other countries like Australia the US & UK have just decided to write & say Japanese names like they would their own: first name first then the surname.

But now Japan's foreign minister Taro Kono or should we say Kono Taro is asking if we would kindly stop doing it because they have some big events coming up like the Olympics.

Fair enough.

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BOOMERS SQUAD

Australia's announced a ripper squad for this year's Basketball World Cup. Aussies have been pretty successful in U-S the last few years and it shows in the line-up! Nine NBA players have signed on to wear the green and gold including Andrew Bogut, Patty Mills, Joe Ingles and of course Ben Simmons.

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SAM KERR

We all know Sam Kerr is a star and now she's been named the third best female soccer player in the world! That's according to the BBC's women's footballer of the year award which is voted on by fans. Ada Hegerberg nabbed first place while Danish player Pernille Harder came second.

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STANLEY CUP

And there's a fairytale brewing North America's National Hockey League. For the first time in 49 years the St Louis Blues have scored a place in the Stanley Cup, which is like the NHL's grand final. Halfway through the season the Blues were at rock bottom but they staged an epic comeback, winning 30 of their last 45 matches!

The final series will be tough. They're facing six-time champions the Boston Bruins who actually beat the Blues when they were last in the final in 1970. But who knows? Stranger things have happened!

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LEAFY SEA DRAGON HABITAT

Here's a lesson for you - if it has eyes, then it's probably not a piece of seaweed! These incredible sea creatures have been surprising visitors at this aquarium in Southern California. It's just built one of the world's biggest habitats for leafy and weedy sea dragons - species which are threatened in the wild.

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CHACOAN PECCARY BABIES

These little furry piggy looking creatures are a pretty surprising sight because for a long time the world thought they were extinct!

They're called Chacoan Peccaries and it was only in the 1970s that a small population of them was discovered hidden away in South America. It's believed they'd been quietly living there for possibly millions of years! Wow!

Now these little babies are the first of their kind to be born in this zoo in Prague. So far only one other zoo in Berlin has been able to breed them and it's hoped the new additions will help to keep this special creature around for millions of years to come.