Fur - how can anybody be comfortable with this?

[Jim]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Leather is most often a product of an animal that is being slaughtered for its meat AND hide.

Fur is most often a product of animal being slaughtered for its hide. A cosmetic thing, not a survival thing.

But whether one chooses to consume, wear, or make a pet of any living being, it shouldn't be so fucking much to ask that those animals be given a little respect. I eat meat and I own leather goods, but I don't want the animals' lives to be full of pain and torture and I sure as hell don't want them skinned alive. I'm far from being a perfect human (I eat KFC on occasion), but I at least I have some level of understanding about our bond to the other furry fuckers wandering this planet.

Lemmy

I really feel exactly the same way. None of my family hunts and I sleep in my woods the night before deer hunting season. I even fed the deer when there was too much snow for them to eat naturally. And, Jesus, we now have 6 dogs, 2 cats, 3 birds, a Salt Water Aquarium and now we rescued a Turtle that was living in the worst smelling Aquarium you would ever smell. That happened yesterday. The poor thing is 2 years old and found out yesterday that he could swim