UGG! I’m wearing what?

The company that manufactures UGG boots doesn’t hide how it makes its popular footwear. A quick trip to the company website tells you everything you need to know:

Somehow, this information escaped former Baywatch star/PETA zealot Pamela Anderson’s attention while lobbying against the use of skins in favor of “cruelty-free fashion.” For 15 years, she wore the warm, fuzzy sheepskin boots:

Last week, she finally discovered what they were made of and blogged her shock and displeasure:

I’m getting rid of our Uggs – I feel so guilty for that craze being started around Baywatch days – I used to wear them with my red swim suit to keep warm – never realizing that they were SKIN! I thought they were shaved kindly? People like to tell me all the time that I started that trend – yikes! Well lets start a new one – do NOT buy Uggs!

Hat tip: Tim Blair, who chuckles: “She thought they were made from Uggs.”

Related helpful hint for animal rights crusaders in Hollyweird: Pashminas aren’t made out of pashminas, either.

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Anderson’s epiphany comes as PETA is stepping up boycott efforts against Australian wool producers. Days before kicking her UGG habit, she had sent a letter to Australian PM John Howard slamming the sheep farming process Down Under:

Pamela Anderson is urging Australia’s prime minister to ban a sheep farming practice at the center of a global campaign to boycott Australian wool.

The 38-year-old actress, who is an animal rights activist, has written to Prime Minister John Howard, asking him to end the “sad practices” of live sheep exports and a process known as mulesing, which involves slicing flesh and wool away from the sheep’s rump to prevent blowflies from laying their eggs in the warm, damp skin.

Farmers say the procedure is an essential part of caring for the animals in Australia’s hot climate. But the U.S.-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals calls the practice an unnecessary mutilation and wants it stopped.

Anderson, who has been involved in anti-fur ads and a campaign to raise awareness of what she calls abuse of chickens in processing plants, said in the letter Wednesday to Howard that consumers were horrified by the procedure.

This also caught my eye:

She also condemned the export of live sheep on “death ships” to the Middle East.

Australia ships live animals to Islamic countries that require halal meat products — meat from an animal that has been killed by a Muslim who slits its jugular vein and drains all the blood from the carcass.

Several years ago, Australian exporters were accused of cruelty when a ship carrying sheep became stranded at sea for weeks and thousands of animals died.

That’s right. Pam and PETA’s beef is with farmers in the West who ship the sheep–not with Muslim butchers in the Middle East who cut their throats and make them bleed to death.

Dumb and dhimmi. Kid Rock is better off without her.

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Jules Crittenden dubs it a case of “Walking while blonde.”