Fur:
Only animals should wear fur
Rabbit fur is marketed as "the byproduct of the rabbit meat"
industry. The truth is, meat rabbits are slaughtered at a much younger
age than those bred for fur, since it takes longer for the coat to
grow out into the luxurious coats rabbits have. Also, fur trim is
not the leftovers from making full-length coats - more animals are
slaughtered to make fur trim than for full-length coats.
We should take a page from the movie "A Clockwork Orange" and take
people who wear fur, tie them down, clamp their eyelids open and their
heads in place, and force them to view all of the
PETA videos
about how those animals are brutally slaughtered (or in some cases,
critically injured from being skinned alive but still breathing, and
left to die an agonizing death in a pile of skinned bodies). A long
time ago a member of my family got a new real fur coat - when asked
what I thought of the coat, I simply said "you should be ashamed of
yourself".
Furthermore, China and other countries routinely export dog and cat
fur as "rabbit fur", so you never really know what kind of poor animal
suffered and died to provide the fur.
What you can know, for sure, is that the animals that were used to
make that fur suffered greatly their entire lives. These animals are
confined to the smallest possible cages, are denied the most basic
needs (like exercise, the bility to dig or jump, etc), are handled
roughly, and are slaughtered brutally. All so some people can wear
fur.
Wearing fur is a fashion statement. That statement is:
- I am ignorant
- I am arrogant
- I am vain
- I am egocentric
- I am insensitive
- I am selfish
- I am wasteful
- I am an ontological slob
- I am an elitist
- I have no compassion
- I am a taker
- I am not a modern thinker
- I am cruel
- I am crude
- I am shallow
- I do not leave things better than I found them
- I am irresponsible
- I cling to beliefs I don't believe
- I am narrow-minded
- I am the same kind of person who would buy products made with
irovy, endangered species, hell, I don't care - gimme some baby fingers
too
Is that the kind of statement you want to make?
If you have real fur and you no longer want it, you might consider
doing something good for animals with it (for all the suffering that
fur created). Orphaned wildlife finds fur particularly comforting,
like being in the warm embrace of their mothers. I can't think of a
more fitting use of furs. Every fur coat out there should be donated
to wildlife rescue groups, to help the animals and to remove them from
circulation and from the fashion.
Ways to spot real from fake:
- Check the label. It should always say what product made up of.
- Peel the fibres back and look at 'skin'. Pull at the fur. Real
fur should shed easily.
- Smell it. Acrylic won't smell while fur with have a slight
'animal' scent.
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