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Glamour Magazine
May 25, 2007

The April 2007 issue of Glamour magazine included a fashion layout featuring a model holding hands with a juvenile chimpanzee.

Please contact the editor of Glamour magazine and tell her that chimpanzees are not fashion accessories. Let her know that young chimpanzees belong with their mothers, not in entertainment.

Cynthia Leive
Editor-in-Chief, Glamour Magazine
Conde Nast Publications
4 Times Square
New York, NY 11036
letters@glamour.com

Or you can click here to leave a comment on the Glamour website.

Sample Letter to Glamour Magazine

Dear Ms. Leive and Glamour Magazine,

I was extremely disappointed to see that Glamour Magazine chose to exploit a young chimpanzee in the April 2007 issue. While you may not have known this, the behind-the-scenes story on chimpanzee ‘actors’ is very dark. Chimpanzees used in entertainment are taken away from their mothers at birth, which causes irreparable psychological harm.
Training methods are physically and psychologically brutal, and ‘retirement’ at age 6 or 7 usually means being cast off to a roadside zoo or some other substandard facility.

In addition to the welfare concerns surrounding their use in entertainment, chimpanzees are an endangered species, and using them in advertising seriously hampers conservation efforts. In the future, please come up with more creative and compassionate ways to promote your magazine.

Sincerely,
[YOUR NAME]

 

Updated: October 3, 2007