Down on Madonna's farm: is it ethical to dye your sheep?
Madonna's in trouble with animal rights campaigners again, after she had her sheep dyed different colours for a photoshoot with Vogue. Yes, it seems that owning your own flock is the next step from pop mega-stardom, and Mads is keen to show hers off to the world in glorious technicolour.
The thinking behind the shoot at the £9million Ashcombe estate in Wiltshire owned by Madonna and Guy Ritchie is said to be paying homage to photographer Cecil Beaton, who owned the property in the '30s and '40s. But the RSPCA is not impressed, arguing that the stunt "sends out the wrong message" about how to treat animals. A spokesman pointed out that even if the dye is safe for the animals, others might copy it with an unsafe dye.
The newly-coiffured pink, yellow blue and green sheep were unavailable for comment...
Dyeing sheep is no more worse than farmers branding their sheep with coloured dye to identify them. Have the sheep been hurt or injured I guess not. Why don't the media look at some of the really positive things that Madonna is doing such as her Patronage to this interesting venture. Take a gander, it's real positive stuff http://www.climatechangechallenge.org
Posted by: Tasmin | November 28, 2007 2:56 PM