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I say people can wear what they want but we should tax the hell out of luxury items.
you socialist you.
I say people can wear what they want but we should tax the hell out of luxury items.
Why not just let the market work? If people feel so stongly against mink farms, don't buy minks. Educate others about what you consider to be cruelty while we still have free speech. If sales drop, mink farmers and all those connected to the mink business will gradually have to come up with a new source of income. You just want an out right ban on something that will put lots of people directly into the unemployment line.
P.S.I bet you're all for banning toys in Happy Meals too.
Some injustices require action. This is one of them. These animals suffer horrifically, and the free market has not corrected the problem.
No. I'm in favor of stupid fat people and their children self-destructing. We have too many stupid fat people already.
We already have animal welfare laws in place. Just enforce what's on the books. Stop trying to put people out of work.
Are you saying only stupid fat people enjoy treating their kids to Happy Meals?
Good post and I agree. I see no compelling reason to sanction cruelty simply because a species is not endangered.This is how I see it also. Modern textile science has the ability to artificially replicate animal fur. Many modern fabrics are also excellent insulators and retain heat much better than animal fur. They are also waterproof.
Considering the technical advances that have been made, I just no longer see a viable reason to cultivate and slaughter certain animals exclusively for their fur.
You might want to rethink buying faux fur. Not that I agree with them about running out of oil. LOL, and I just noticed this is from the fur commision. Oh well, maybe there is some truth to it anyway. Sorry for such a biased link.This is how I see it also. Modern textile science has the ability to artificially replicate animal fur. Many modern fabrics are also excellent insulators and retain heat much better than animal fur. They are also waterproof.
Considering the technical advances that have been made, I just no longer see a viable reason to cultivate and slaughter certain animals exclusively for their fur.
I am sure the federal/national government (America) would love to add more bloated legislation to the books to take more of our money and grant them more powers. In a free society, we should allow the people to choose to either buy or not buy furs (this includes choosing in light of how the company obtains their furs, etc).
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
Oh you lucky dog! I'd love to meet Inbred Newkirk.
I'd bring with me a big juicy hamburger and eat it in front of the media whore.
Lol. Biased doesn't even do it justice. More like life-preserver.Sorry for such a biased link.
Seriously, what's the difference between killing an animal for it's fur and killing it for it's skin?
Are we proposing to ban all forms of leather as well?
Israel Fur Trade Ban Wins Support : Humane Society International
Would you support anti-fur legislation in your own country?
Lol. Biased doesn't even do it justice. More like life-preserver.
I pretty much had everyone in the studio laughing at her
the host-asked her how to describe her philosophy. She said if you were driving down a road and hit an icy patch and on one side of the road there is a baby in a carriage and on the other side of the road a chimpanzee it should be a moral dilemna as to what living being you hit when your car went into a skid. so he asked me-I said if the chimp was mine I'd merely ask her to buy me a new one but if it was my kid I'd track her down and skin her.
she also was whining about schools teaching kids about the holocaust while not teaching them about the billions of chickens murdered by Kentucky Fried Chicken. The host-(now deceased) was the brother of a Jesuit who once ran Georgetown U-noted that if she couldn't tell the difference between a Jewish ghetto victim and a chicken someone ought to stick her in an oven. she's totally nutty
Who was it, Pete Singer? who says, If a dog and a child were drowning and he could save only one, If it was a smart dog and a retarded child, he'd save the dog.
Animal Rights Advocates make my skin crawl.
One doesn't have to be an animal rights advocate to believe that the fur industry is an abomination. I'm no Ingrid Newkirk (my cats work for me, dammit), but the fur industry at this point in time serves no worthwhile purpose. I hope we will someday develop a conscience about animals in the U.S.
I grew up on a cattle farm. The thing about cattle is that EVERY SINGLE PART of that animal is used for something....food, dogfood, leather, other products. But fur animals are killed, skinned, and left to rot, not to mention confined in stinking tiny cages their entire lives. It's a sickening industry.
The fur farms are even worse.
Beyond that, fur is simply no longer something that people need. We have plenty of warm alternatives. I love my north face jacket that is made out of recycled plastic bottles. It is so soft and warm! Best jacket I've ever owned, and it sheds water.
The fur industry (raising minks for example) is not the only source of fur. and if someone wants to trap himself a new Raccoon coat or a rabbit skin cap I have no problem with that. THe people who want to ban the fur industry tend to be the same loons who want to ban hunting and fishing. And while they claim it is because they love animals, a shot of truth serum would most likely uncover a far more sinister motivation.
You are in no position to tell someone else what they need. Control freaks thrive on that phrase-from the gun banners to the wealth stealing tax hikers. Each case involves-you DON'T NEED THAT
you determine what YOU NEED and leave us to Determine what WE NEED