'Grotesque': British entrepreneur shot down over plan to sell dead koala fur as bushfire fundraiser
"Most of the koalas that have died have been burned. The fur is no good," he said. "It’s a fundamentally ridiculous comment."The Age
last year and was later photographed by paparazzi eating McDonald's with a knife and fork - the segment highlights the sustained media attention the bushfire disaster continues to attract in the UK. British animal rights campaigner Wendy Turner-Webster described Parson's pitch as "grotesque" and said it represented the commercialisation of tragedy.
"There are 1000 different, more humane, more acceptable, compassionate ways of raising money for the terrible disaster that we've all witnessed."
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