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Viable Reason #1: People want to buy it.
No other reason is needed.
bingo. that is all the "need" I need
Viable Reason #1: People want to buy it.
No other reason is needed.
Israel Fur Trade Ban Wins Support : Humane Society International
Would you support anti-fur legislation in your own country?
I would in my country with a caveat to allow the trade in furs of feral animals.
Israel Fur Trade Ban Wins Support : Humane Society International
Would you support anti-fur legislation in your own country?
No, because then you could legislate leather.
seeks to outlaw the production, processing, import, export and sale of fur from all animal species not already part of the meat industry.
Israel Fur Trade Ban Wins Support : Humane Society International
Would you support anti-fur legislation in your own country?
Israel Fur Trade Ban Wins Support : Humane Society International
Would you support anti-fur legislation in your own country?
Well, this particular legislation wouldn't.
I don't support killing animals simply for fur but I don't see a need to ban people from wearing it. The only requirements I'd have for wearing fur would be that the animals not be endangered and that the fur be obtained through humane means.
sounds reasonable to me
here is a question
when I went to Grand Cayman I visited a turtle farm where they raised turtles for repopulation to the wild. THey also harvested some of the turtles and by selling meat and shells could help fund this farm which put hundreds of endangered turtles back in the sea. Yet because of CITES and other laws the US signed, I could not buy say a turtle shell and bring in back to the states. In other words, laws in the USA designed to help save endangered turtles actually retarded the efforts of this farm to repopulate the Atlantic with these same animals
SO if say Kenya raises an animal the USA says is endangered and seeks to sell the fur in order to due what this farm did, I would suggest that a rule on endangered species be very specific
A buddy and I ran a trap line in Nebraska throughout our high school years. We were licensed and obeyed all of the trapping rules. We started with leg hold traps but soon exchanged them for 'killer' traps (2 squares of steel rod that snap closed on the animal's neck) as they are much more humane and you don't get trapped animals chewing off their leg to free themselves. We started out skinning, salting, stretching, and drying the pelts, but soon found out that it payed almost as much to bring in the whole animal carcasses.
Muskrats were our biggest seller, followed by rabbits. Never caught a mink. They are much too wily to fall for a trap. We did get one red fox. I still have a fond memory of getting up at 4:00a to go out into the snow to check the traps before school. Threw away many gloves that had to handle skunk sprayed traps.
Yep, as the little 'ol left wing fur trapper, I would be against a ban on fur. Fur coats are for the most part out of style these days. When I was in high school, rabbit coats were the big thing for the girls to wear. They were everywhere you looked.
Hunters as fishermen are almost always truer conservationists than animal rights extremists if for no other reason than self interest. The vast majority of animal rights whackos I have met (and I have debated Ingrid NewKook, Wayne Pacells and others on live talk shows) don't know the difference between a great horned owl and a wombat and their "education" as to wild animals seems to have come from watching Bambi a dozen times while tripping on acid
I see no reason why we should maintain a cruel and inhumane trade for the sole purpose of human vanity. For the record, I have no problems with hunting animals for food, we are omnivores, and most humans require protein in the form of animal flesh for good health. However, killing them solely for their furs is simply despicable. I am not aware of native people--anywhere--who kill animals solely for their furs and don't use the animals for food.
Actually, the way that minks, foxes, etc. are treated is pretty damn sickening.
Fur farming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. At least the suffering of baby seals is over relatively quickly. The suffering of animals on fur farms goes on and on.
HMPH Well then, we need to push for "free range" fur farms. I see no reason to abuse an animal for months or even years prior to killing it. That's just ****ing evil.
Who cares? It's still using an animal for it's skin, even if you're getting something else out of it. Would you change your mind if, for instance, we started making mink steaks?
Or just ban the practice entirely as unnecessary and cruel. The people who are currently farming minks and foxes and rabbits can switch over to working to collect recycleables to make polarfleece.