Chrissie Hynde-A Person With A Conscience
Celebrities like Chrissie Hynde really use their name and fame for something beneficial. We should always support stars like her. Not only is she talented but she has a conscience, has a kind heart and uses her time to benefit others. I really like the fact she is Vegetarian, works as a PETA activist and also designing fun clothes that does not hurt animals in anyway. Whether she is a spiritual or not, she sure sounds like it. I offer my prayers for Ms Chrissie Hynde to have a long life and her pro-animal works to grow even more. Very inspiring individual.
Tsem Rinpoche
Fashion designer Chrissie Hynde
Animal rights activist Chrissie Hynde has designed an environmentally-friendly clothing line, which will be aimed at musicians.
Chrissie Hynde has designed an environmentally-friendly clothing line. The Pretenders singer – who is a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activist – has teamed up with ex-boyfriend JP Jones to create Fairground Rock, which is aimed at musicians and consists of skinny jeans, leather jackets, cowboy boots, handbags and T-shirts. Vegetarian Chrissie – who is good friends with designer Stella McCartney – said: “Like most women, I love fashion and clothes. I love handbags and shoes. Everybody will be able to find everything they love in a non-leather version. Fashion should be fun.” No animal skins will be used in the collection, which has already been approved by designers Todd Oldham and John Bartlett. The name for the range, Fairground Rock, is inspired by JP’s childhood as he grew up as the son of a carnival arcade owner. Chrissie is not the only star to create an environmentally-friendly clothing line. ‘Harry Potter’ star Emma Watson has designed a range for fair-trade label People Tree, which will show at an eco-festival run by Britain’s Prince Charles.
Source: http://lifestyle.malaysia.msn.com/Fashion/Celebrity/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4286495
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She does more than that!
She owns a vegan restaurant and is a strong advocate for a meat-free lifestyle too. More recent news of her can be found here
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/chrissie-hynde-interview-vegan-menu-soho-wild-heart-grill-a4334746.html%3famp
As people are more aware of animal cruelty, there is more demand for cruelty-free products. We are not talking about just food, we are talking about clothing, shoes, handbags, and other fashion items. People are now looking into non-leather products. Chrissie Hynde who is The Pretender singer, a vegetarian and an animal activist, has launched an environmentally-friendly clothing line, this is such a good news. When there is no demand, there will be no supply. This is one one of the ways we can help the animals.
Guitarist, Synopsis, Songwriter, animal rights ,Chrissie Hynde is one of the most widely famous figures in rock bands.She refused to use fur or leather in her fashions,would stop using fur in all of her products. She is an outspoken critic of animal cruelty and also a vegetarian.She even designed an environmentally-friendly clothing line,to discourage her musicians freiends from using fur products.Thats great she used her time to benefit others.She was a “vegan Buddhist” as claimed by some but whats great she does not wear fur clothings.
Thank you Rinpoche for these wonderful post.
This is so cool. For people to make clothing that has nothing to do with killing animals. This makes me so happy to hear this. I hope that many people keep buying this type of clothes instead of the real animal products. And i also hope that then people would realise that you do not need real animal products to look good.
And also by doing this, people can look good, and at the same time people would be saving animals around the world.
In this fast moving world, conscience does not produce quick bucks. It is so easy to stay in the mainstream and can be very hard to be different.
It surely takes a lot of courage to do something different. One can easily be viewed as outcast. The road less travelled can be very very lonely.
It all depends on the individuals, I suppose, as to how much trust he/she has in her own dreams, and how strong is his/her determination.
We surely need more celebrity like Chrissie, to take up the real actions and do something different. They have more powerful voice than normal people like us and they can do so much to the world and to change it into a better place.
Animals skins were once upon a time very popularily used for fashion be it for shoes handbags or for clothings too. Can you imagine how many animals have to sacrifice their lives for such attachments and desires for fashion, not counting the immensed amount of sufferings these poor animals have to go through! As if there are not enough of sufferings in this wicked and cruel world, so why have the nessassity to create some more, just for the sake of satisfying the fancy whims and cravings of some deluded fashion conscious beings. Chrissie Hynde, being an animal lover, cum vegeterian, and a “PETA’ activist, timely struck the nail in the head to rightly address these cruel acts by trying to stop more senseless killings in its tracks! Action done by Chrissie shows compassion which denotes a wish for other beings to be free from suffering. May you be blessed with a long life Chrissie so that you can continue doing such humane acts of great love for the unprotected!
It’s fantastic to see how well-known celebrities use their fame and influence to benefit other beings. How easy it would be simply to enjoy an indulgent lifestyle, spend lots of money and soak up peoples’ praise of you, and yet celebrities like Chrissie Hynde (Paul McCartney also springs to mind)put in the time and effort to make their voices heard on important issues, and lend a hand in helping to work towards a resolution.
Of course, having millions of dollars and worldwide fame is a bonus, but we can all put time and effort into worthwhile causes in many ways, regardless of status, wealth and position and certainly, on a mental level, in giving to other beings on a continual basis, we all become richer as a result and find lasting satisfaction and happiness that comes from thinking of and doing for others.
Kind regards,
Sandy
Like what Dalal Lama says there is no need to look for temples and no need to look for good philosophies from compassion can be found in the heart of all good Buddhist. The Dalal Lama represents compassion and is the manifestation of Chenresig the Buddha of Compassion. With compassion many good things will be achieved. When you do not take meat and become a vegetarian is becaiuse you feel compassion for not killing animals for your food. So you save lives of many animals e g when you go and do your rounds
in destributing foods in Kechara Soup Kitchen and feed the homeless you must compassion ansd kindness. You can always see before you do any virtuous deeds or actions. Compassion and kindness always come in priority.
She and her ex-boyfriend J.P Jones is opening a Fashion shop called Fairground Rock. This business is special it only sells non-leasther fashion goods such as shoes, boots handbags and other non-leather fashion leather collection. Most western women are non-vegetarian and they eat a lot of meat and she is also an animal rights activists. By her example of being a vegetarian ansd selling non-leather goods. I hope she can be an inspiration so that people will eat less meat thus killing lesser animals.
Thanks and this post serve as a reminder to all. Some years back when I read a Dharma book that talks about not using leather & fur product…it just pounced my mind. I have cut the attachment since then.
Never use fur and never eat meat. Stop it asap and be real to yourself and to your conscience and to your spiritual practice.
i guess it’s pure greed on our part, to so heartlessly hurt animals, for the sake of our appearance. In fact, it makes us all the more ugly. i think people should play, touch and feed animals more; the contact will make them more sensitive to the feelings of animals – not only humans feel.
More and more prominent people like stars are on the headlines to promote the compassion towards animals. There is a practical reason not to eat animals as for the same amount of food in weight, it takes far more resources to rear animals as opposed to growing grains and so forth. Plus animals creates a lot of waste and their waste normally can pollute the natural groundwater. Hence from the stand point of benefit to the Earth eating vegetarian is much more beneficial than eating meat.
Many celebrities are giving their support against cruelty to animals. The have stop using leather and fur. Just imagine how much sufferings the animals have to go through for our attachments to look and feel good! We should also support this good cause!
I think its brilliant that certain celebrities bank on their names for a good cause. This is to create more merits and not use just use up all of one’s good karma.
I remember a very wise lady once quoted this during a meeting and it stuck in my head. Our karma is like a bank account whereby one should always put in money (good merits) and create the interest (good karma) and not just withdrawing (using up good karma) till the account is empty and we start to borrow or owe money (bad karma)! How apt I thought!!!
There is already so much suffering in this world, why do we really need to create more just to satisfy the whims of deluded fashion victims. And in the case of Chrissie Hynde, she identifies this problem and addresses it whilst still catering to the fashion world on a much better platform of care and non abuse.
Leather and fur were used as nescessities in a long gone world (at least on planet earth) when there was the need to protect oneself from the elements and as a means of survival… but not anymore!
We have a designer friend who challenges both the extremes and goes the middle way so to speak whereby, he realizes that the abuse of animals that go into the fur and leather industry is indeed harmful and does not support the killing but on the other hand he also see the potential of creating new and exciting items from the multitude of existing items out there that are already made of such so called inhumane materials. Is there a wrong in recycling these materials? I dont see the harm as I feel it feeds the needs of some and if it can change the mindset into not killing it helps. After all, the animal that was killed for its leather or fur, cannot be ‘killed’ yet again by the action of recycling.
I do not feel this is in support of the fur or leather industry but actually trying to stop it in its tracks by ‘killing’ the supply but still creating the demand. It is a question of twisting one’s delusions around. There we go, my two cents worth!
RInpoche has always been very concerned about animal welfare. No living being is too small or insignificant for Rinpoche’s attention, care and concern. Be it a hungry dog wandering the streets, a lonely looking bird sitting in a teeny cage in a pet shop, or ill, half-dead fish struggling in pet store fish tanks (a common occurence in malaysia), Rinpoche will go out of his way to rescue them, bring them some comfort and the possiblity of a better life.
When celebrities such as Paul McCartney, Alyssa Milano, Natalie Portman and Keanu Reeves (just to name a few) speak out and show support to a worthy cause such as PETA, we should show our support and gratitude too. By using their name for a greater purpose, these celebrities don’t let their fame go to waste. I hope more celebs are inspired to do the same too.