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Inside A Russian Fur Farm
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I am not sure if there are any fur-wearers on AB. You very rarely see women wearing fur in Britain, apart from around the wealthier parts of London, but I think this is disgusting. What does everybody else think ?
I am not sure if there are any fur-wearers on AB. You very rarely see women wearing fur in Britain, apart from around the wealthier parts of London, but I think this is disgusting. What does everybody else think ?
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IMO killing for food is a natural part of the food chain, and once done it is wasteful and disrespectfu l not to use all of the animal. Killing pests and the like are an unfortunate inevitabilit y to ensure, for example, good crops and hygiene and houses that don't fall down and .... etc. Killing just to grab an animal's skin is unjustifiabl e. It implies the life of...
07:16 Tue 26th Apr 2016
IMO killing for food is a natural part of the food chain, and once done it is wasteful and disrespectful not to use all of the animal.
Killing pests and the like are an unfortunate inevitability to ensure, for example, good crops and hygiene and houses that don't fall down and .... etc.
Killing just to grab an animal's skin is unjustifiable. It implies the life of that animal is so worthless anything can be done to it because humans are more powerful and that's all that counts. I dislike this idea of 'farming' for furs/skins.
Killing pests and the like are an unfortunate inevitability to ensure, for example, good crops and hygiene and houses that don't fall down and .... etc.
Killing just to grab an animal's skin is unjustifiable. It implies the life of that animal is so worthless anything can be done to it because humans are more powerful and that's all that counts. I dislike this idea of 'farming' for furs/skins.
I used to live very close to a very large mink farm in Devon, the mink were reared in open cages that protected them from the rain but not the cold, the cold weather encouraged deep thick fur apparently. This was also the place where one night all the mink were released by animal activists and where they were first spotted living wild, in the River Teign. It really was a very cruel place!!
This may be deeply controversial, but think about it:
real fur is a renewable resource. You can easily breed animals. Lots of non-natural fibres come from non-renewable resources like oil/coal. If you live in a very cold country, it is "greener" to wear animal products for clothes and boots than to use artificial fibres. It is also warmer, so less natural material needs to be used than artificial. You may say that we should restrict our meat-eating to sheep-meat, ( which disagrees with some people) and restrict our animal-resourced clothes to wool, but many people can't wear wool, either. Also, production methods for artificial fibres is far worse for the environment than production of animal-based materials.
real fur is a renewable resource. You can easily breed animals. Lots of non-natural fibres come from non-renewable resources like oil/coal. If you live in a very cold country, it is "greener" to wear animal products for clothes and boots than to use artificial fibres. It is also warmer, so less natural material needs to be used than artificial. You may say that we should restrict our meat-eating to sheep-meat, ( which disagrees with some people) and restrict our animal-resourced clothes to wool, but many people can't wear wool, either. Also, production methods for artificial fibres is far worse for the environment than production of animal-based materials.
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