Hi, I�m Shanna Moakler for PETA Hi, I�m Alyssa Campanella for PETA

[Music playing] [Susie Castillo]

The reason why I wanted to get involved with PETA is because I�ve been an animal lover

all of my life and the more I learned of the torture that animals go through in the name

of fashion I just think it�s so unnecessary. It�s unbelievable to me actually so I thought

if there�s something I could do to get my fellow pageant sisters together and for us

to take a stand, united, and to tell the pageant industry not to support the fur industry.

I feel so blessed that they all agreed and here we are, making this happen.

[Shandie Finnessey] I am so thrilled to be involved with PETA

and taking a stance that I would rather be naked than wear fur because I�ve always

grown up with animals and I consider them my best friends and for us to put them through

so much torture and cruelty just for fashion, I think is so horrific and we need to raise

the awareness because a person needs to learn to be comfortable in their own skin, not the

skin of another animal. [Alyssa Campanella]

It was important for me to get involved with PETA because animals are just always a passion

of mine. When I was growing up I always saw a lot of ads, for PETA. I saw a lot of celebrities

bearing their skin. I would like to use my voice to promote anti-fur.

[Shanna Moakler] When it comes to the anti-fur campaigns it�s

really close to my heart. Being in pageantry I�ve been awarded fur coats and I�m hoping

to stop it in our pageant community. [Susie Castillo]

When I first heard that some pageants in the United States give fur coats I was appalled.

I couldn�t believe that it was still going on, knowing what we know today, what happens

with animals and how they�re tortured in the fur industry.

[Shandi Finnessey] I had won a title and was given a fur, and

was asked to sign autographs at the trappers association and people started coming in with

photo albums of animals that they�d trapped. So I�m looking at these pictures where animals

are gnawing through their own paws in order to free themselves from traps and they�re

trying these desperate measures just to fight for their lives, and I was so disgusted that

I would wear this skin of this living being on my body and consider myself beautiful.

[Alyssa Campanella] Throughout my reign I was offered a lot of

gifts, you know, either they were fur shoes or fur coats. Sometimes [inaudible] sponsors

of course want me to wear their products but I would always put my foot down because it�s

just so cruel and I don�t want to be a supporter of that. I don�t want to show anyone that

I support what they do to animals for the benefit of fashion, it doesn�t make any

sense to me.

[Shanna Moakler] I always tried to get people to go to the

PETA website because it�s just so much information and such wealth of information, and so many

different videos.

[Susie Castillo] I saw those videos and they were horrific,

and I watched the videos of the animals who were skinned alive and then they�re thrown

onto a pile of their other brothers and sisters and they�re still breathing, and they�ve

just been skinned alive and I can�t imagine the torture and that pain that animal has

to go through, and for what, for fashion.

[Shandi Finnessey] What would happen if it happened to a human

being? We would be outraged! So what�s the difference? Animals are so similar to us and

they can feel pain and embarrassment and humiliation, they feel the same feelings that we do.

[Alyssa Campanella] The pageant supports the fur, they support

the animal cruelty, but I think if they really took a step back and realized, OK this involves

harsh treatment of animals, maybe we shouldn�t promote fur, maybe we should be more of an

anti-fur group.

[Susie Castillo] So I strongly urge people to educate themselves

and the more you know the more you can do to help yourself and the animals.