leather or fur-whats the moral difference?

Question

shoes are mostly made of leather, as are belts, handbags coats sofas, i've never heard anyone question leather but all the time people get it in the neck over fur, whats the difference, is it because people all assume things with fur are cute??

oh yeah, I don't have nothing made of fur, for two reasons...
1 how often do you see the stuff anyway
2 fear of being attacked by a mob of hippies wearing leather shoes

Answer 1

it is because fur is wrong lether ios jesus

Answer 2

Well, some people (including animal rights groups) do oppose leather. However, the opposition to leather gets far less attention, and seems to be a lower priority.

One of the main reasons fur gets attacked far more is because it is so unnecessary. Leather is a very useful material, and comes from animals that are already being slaughtered for food. Fur, while very helpful for cavemen, is not really advantageous these days compared to the many, many alternatives. It has become purely a matter of fashion, and given the often outrageous prices, a symbol of wealth. This tends to create outrage among a lot of people who see the animals as dying for a person's vanity.

Also, there tends to be an outcry over the living conditions of the animals before they are killed, and the manner of their death. I must admit, anal electrocution doesn't exactly sound pleasant.

Ultimately, the moral distinction is negligible, and the major difference is in the emotional appeal. Clubbing baby seals to make a fur coat for some spoiled, vacuous, trophy wife is easier to condemn than cattle (who are gonna be hamburger anyway) contributing their skin to make belts, shoes and the like.

Answer 3

Wearing fur is so sad ( I have a Fur jacket but it synthetic ), to take the skin from some animal and throw the body away is gross, but I think leather is more acceptable because it is seen to be a by product of the meat we eat and therefore people see a difference. Have to laugh at you though babe about getting kicked with hippies, I dont wear my coat now in case I get picked on. lol.

Answer 4

Many anti-fur people are also anti-leather -- and anti-meat, for that matter. That's a fact.

The larger truth, however, is that the real ethical difference stems from the fact that we live in a civilized society. As a civilized society, we draw ethical lines all of the time; this is a natural, and very necessary, reaction to "civilization". For instance, some of us might eat beef, but we don't eat babies. By your logic, what's the difference? Why shouldn't we eat babies, since babies are certainly made of meat? You see, we constantly draw ethical lines that are, admittedly, somewhat arbitrary -- and those ethical lines also tend to shift as society grows and changes, and as we become more enlightened (fur coats were much more socially acceptable in the 1950s, when nobody thought about where those furs came from; now people are more educated about the horrors of fur-production and furs are no longer okay). The seemingly arbitrary ethical lines that we draw are what make "society" possible. We all agree that murder is wrong, right? But what about murder in self-defense? What about state-sponsored murder, i.e., the death penalty? You see, more arbitrary ethical lines. As many have noted, leather is a bi-product of meat; that is why, for many, leather is more socially acceptable than fur which requires that animals suffer and be killed to produce a completely unnecessary fashion luxury and nothing else.

Anyhow ethics aside, in my opinion, fur coats are ugly, and they make the women who wear them look ugly. Why would anyone even want one?

Answer 5

leather-based is a with the aid of made of the beef marketplace, in case you drink milk or consume meat then an animal will die to furnish that nutrition / milk so it rather is extra ideal to apply the floor contained in this variety of leather-based than to bin it. Animals farmed for fur are saved in cramped situations, their meat isn't used and reckoning on the animal they are sumetimes skinned alive so as that there is not any mark on the pelt. while human beings communicate approximately 'fur' it rather is many times what they mean, no longer rabbits that have been shot.

Answer 6

You'll see vegans complaining about both.

Leather is considered a byproduct of eating meat. Cows are not raised or trapped just for their skin.

Fur animals are raised or trapped just for their fur. So people cannot use the justification that the animal would have been killed anyway.

Additionally, the fur practice is simply more gruesome than cow slaughter (which is pretty bad in itself.)

Farmers do not club baby calves as they do baby seals.

Cows are not anally electrocuted.

Cows do bite off their own limbs to escape painful traps.

It is much easier to justify killing an animal for food than it is simply for luxury.


In terms of activism, you will see people focus on fur because it is an easier "sell." It's much easier to convince people to give up a luxury item such as fur than to convince them to stop eating meat and wearing leather.

Answer 7

No difference.

You could remind anyone wearing leather shoes next time they make comment about fur.

A lot of people talking rubbish so far.

Fur is the hair that grows through the skins of the animal, the skin of the animal is what we call leather or hide. Fur as made into coats and colar are still attached to the animals skin.

Crocodile, snake, beaver, fox to name but a few others.

Liken the idea to the hair on your head and your scalp.

Answer 8

Leather is from animals that are easily bred. These animals are raised in captivity, and the population is easily controlled. Also all parts of the animal are used for something.
Fur bearing animals on the other hand are usually found in the wild and the sole purpose of these animals being harvested is the fur.

Answer 9

No, real animal advocates hate leather as well as fur. The popular media, for some reason, latches onto the fur-baiting... possibly because THEY, THE MEDIA pitches it's tents in the very very lowlands, and assumes that their audience will think of cute furry things and become all worked up. Typical intelligence insulting by the media.

Answer 10

Cows are slaughtered for meat that we eat and their skin (leather) is a bi-product. To kill an animal for no other purpose than to make fur coats etc. is just cruel.

Answer 11

Leather comes from cows & millions of cows are slaughtered for food purposes. Leather just happens to be a biproduct to lessen waste. Fur animals are typically smaller and not as widely used for food, if used for food at all. Fur animals are typically bred specifically for the purpose of killing them for their fur, creating more waste.