Do you think people who eat meat are being hypocrites when they say wearing fur should be banned?

Answer 1

People who eat meat aren't hypocrites. We were meant to eat meat. Humans have been eating meat since the dawn of time. Humans however, have NOT been raising animals in tiny little cages and slaughtering them for the sole purpose of ripping their skin off and wearing it since the dawn of time. I also don't believe in hunting unless what is killed is eaten. You don't see lions on the African plains chasing down a gazell to remove it's fur and cover up with it.

Answer 2

Not at all.

When you kill an animal for meat it serves a purpose. Meat is food. Protein is a good part of your diet, and to say the least, meat tastes darn good. Until activists create a substitute that tastes like meat, looks like meat, and has the same minerals, vitamins, and protein content, I'll eat meat. Sure you can take 15 different pills and get protein from other sources but what good is that?

On the other hand fur animals are killed for nothing more than fur. The furs only serve to hang in a closet and serve mankind in no way other than cruel vanity. An animal killed for its coat is like a person killed because of their skin color.

Answer 3

See, people don't eat the meat of mink or fox or cheetahs but wear their fur. People eat the meat of cattle but don't wear their fur?/hair?. I personally don't believe in killing an animal just for an aesthetic purpose like wearing a fur coat. If an animal will provide sustenance for survival then that is a different story. Also, I have read the protein from eating meat is what made our ancestors brains grow to evolve into homo sapiens.

Answer 4

Not always, there are a lot of furs that the animal is killed for just it's fur. That is wrong. But if you are going to use the meat to feed your family and use the fur too, that is different.

Cows give us both meat and leather.

Answer 5

Yes, if the fur-bearing animals are the meat that they're eating.

I don't see too many people complaining about wearing leather or eating beef or pork. They are domesticated animals and raised for food, the leather is a by-product of their main use (food). However, I don't see anyone eating mink meat. I think raising animals for just their fur or skins is cruel.

Answer 6

Why would they be a hyprocrite. To kill an animal purely for it's fur is uncessary. Trophy hunting disgusts me. Hunting for food is natural. I'd starve to death as a vegitarian. A medium rare steak is one of life's best rewards. People until we devise ways to synthasize food must kill something to eat. You cannot live purely on berries and grains.

Second it's been proven that plants also have at least primitive feelings. I suspect if we study it long enough we'll find some advanced plants like trees may be far more developed than we think. Just because a plant cannot scream in a way audible to what we can hear doesn't mean it doesn't. Plants do react to danger, even comunicate to other plants. Furthor proof is that plants who are pampered and talked to in positive ways grow better. This isn't purely the effect of you blowing CO2 on them. They actually feel the encouragement and react to it.

So how is denying yourself food like a cow which I suspect is actually less intelligent than certain trees not a meaningless sacrafice?

Like all things meat in moderation is very good for a body. Lack of meat requires suppliments or a very rigid diet that is likely to be more fattening and worse long term for a person than a more conventional western diet. So there are no health benifits from being vegitarian.

As for leather. It's generally made from animals slaughtered for food. It is tough, looks cool, feels cool, great protection from the elements and easily fashioned into many things. The alternitive is to wear polyester. Otherwise you are wearing something dead, whether it be plant or animal. How wearing dead plant is better than dead animal is better is beyond me. Wearing synthetic fabrics is not my thing.They feel unatural, generally look pretty horrible, do not hold up under an active lifestyle.

So in short if you really want to not kill something you have to run around in synthetiics and eat fungi, which probably have the most primitive nervous systems of anything in the plant and animal kingdom. To me vegitarian is hyprocritical unless it is done purely for food tastes. religion or allergies.

As for suffering, I will not eat veal because of how it is raised. Nor do I approve of how chickens are kept in this country. Most cattle live a great life, longer than normally would have in the wild, other animals would be extinct except for human domestication. Were we to quit eating beef, chicken and other animals these animals would be on the verge of extinction very quickly. Better to live a short life than none at all I think. Rather than attack the eating of meat wouldn't it be more productive to attack HOW the animals are treated and push for better treatment of the animals? That is something you can accomplish. Try to force your diet down my throat and you are going to get a fight. I don't tell you what to eat. Don't try to tell me what to eat.

Answer 7

No, we cultivate cattle and other livestock in order to eat meat which we are biologically designed to eat. The livestock are usually killed as humanely as possible. Fur on the other hand is generally gotten through the trapping of wild animals and is generally pretty cruel. I don't see the problem with doing one and being against the other.

Answer 8

mmmm fox stew, wolf tail soup and leopard pie...oh yes we use the fur as a byproduct...No they are not hypocrits. Isnt this the same excuse vegetarians use when they wear leather shoes, sit on leather sofas and sneer at meat-eaters.
I've been both.
Fur is purely for fashion. It's decadent, it's unnecessary, unless you live where only fur will keep you warm, e.g. eskimos, laplanders, but these people are not being fashion conscious.

Answer 9

Not really if you think that the animals eaten for meat are killed humanely and are bred for the purpose of being food whereas most furs are from illegal operations. On the other hand if you see the killing of animals as wrong either way than they are hypocrits. that said i hate animals so i fed my fish to my cat and shot my cat......only kidding I love those fluffy b@#$*rds.

Answer 10

I think the bigger hypocrites are vegetarians who wear leather. Their excuse seems to be that the animal was killed for food for the meat eaters, so it's just a "by-product". AND people who say they are vegetarian, but eat chicken, fish etc. Neither are vegetables - is the justification that chicken and fish are ugly (justifiable murder) or are they just too lazy to think of an alternative.

Answer 11

no.
we are omnivores, that is we eat both meat and vegetables,so I see nothing wrong in using the skins of the animals we have eaten, after all we as a species have done that since we learnt to hunt.
I don't agree however with killing for fun or fashion.
for example I think leopard skin looks better on a leopard than a human, but I like leather shoes.