How many of you know how fur is obtained?

Question

How many of you realize that the fur on your jacket or coat is obtained with pure torture of the animals. The pictures below touched my heart and soul. In a modern world, how does such cruelty go on?
http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/raccdog.html

Please make people aware of this attrocity. If demand for fur stops, then supply of it will stop or at least slow.

Last year in China, over 10,000,000 animals gave their lives to fur trade. Sometimes faux fur is really fur from raccoon dogs and is mismarketed because it is cheaper than making faux. This is something that is ongoing and is not rare.

Are we there yet.......do they skin the cow live? do they cut off a steak from it's flank while it is standing there. View the pictures. I said nothing about not eating meat. I am talking about animals tortured and legs chopped off and skinned while fully conscious.

yep jeeper, I am vegetarian. I have been one for years and feel a heck of a lot better.

http://www.hsus.org/furfree/news/sean_john_diddy_combs_mislabeled_fur.html

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/07/dog.fur/

It is evident that most of you did not even LOOK AT THE PICTURES. I cannot believe some of these answers. I guess compassion is something lost totally with some of you. If you can look at those and feel nothing, you have a rock for a heart.

Answer 1

I am not a vegetarian, I completely condone meat for food, but that was the most horrible display of barbarism i have ever witnessed. That man should be drawn and quartered.

Answer 2

Nearly all retail "fur" is now faux fur. The only place you will find clothing with real animal fur is in the high end boutiques typically.
But yes I do know how it is obtained. Honestly I dont' know why anybody would want to wear actual animal fur, but I guess to each their own.
With PETA protests the public is aware of the issue. They have been throwing paint on fur wearers for years.

Answer 3

I'll never understand why the *&^% people need to wear a dead animal for fashion. And that fur may be dog and cat fur that the Chinese slice off of the anmials while they're alive, they skin them alive.

Did they peel the hide off the cow while it suffered to make that leather jacket? Torturing, immense torture, of animals just for fashion should not be a vegetarian/meat eater issue, especially when it involves domestic animals.

Answer 4

I don't wear fur and have no desire to, but, I am a dedicated carnivore, without guilt I might add. I think a lot like Chris Rock when it comes to this. In one of his comedy routines he said "If you're one of the few lucky people in the world that can get your hands on a steak then bite the shyt out of it!"

Got to tell ya, I sat on the Venice boardwalk and ate a medium rare hamburger while one of the PETA people waved pictures in front of me. I took a good look, and then another bite of my burger and offered some to him with a big smile. Needless to say he moved on and interrupted someone else's meal. That's about how much it phases me.

I actually have quite a good heart, I volunteer at our local no-kill cat shelter, have rescued three of them, and work with the homeless in my town. But make no mistake, I was born a carnivore, and a carnivore I will remain. What do you think you have teeth for? Because vegetables are too hard to mash up with your gums?

Answer 5

When I go to a restaurant to eat a steak, I am not responsible if someone that processed the animal did not use humane methods to do so. Do I think that they should? Absolutely. Does it make it my fault if some are so ignorant or cheap to follow a humane procedure? Absolutely not. Your campaign would be better suited againsts the process, not the product.

Answer 6

The fact that SOME fur is obtained this way doesn't mean ALL or even MOST fur is obtained this way. Not that I am an advocate of killing animals merely for human vanity, but I think it is important to be honest.

Answer 7

I agree 100%. Those poor animals are tortured daily. There are little fat kids that shoot bottle rockets at them in their cages, grown up geeks that put electric wires through their cages so they only step on one every once in a while. there are even members of Bush's cabinet who take turns at them with cattle prods.

The truth is these animals are pampered and well fed right up to the time they are "euthanized" for their fur. Damaged fur doesn't sell. They are well fed, kept warm and dry, and know nothing else but their little cage. Of course you can believe all the PETA propaganda you want, they are certainly unbiased...

Answer 8

As long as greedy people are allowed to make money off of animal's sweat, pain and broken legs, as long as they can exploit animals for money they will do it, it doesn't matter if they know where the fur comes from, money talks, animal screams walk. Write to your gov.

Answer 9

Fur is actually pretty rare these days. It's out of style. There still are people who wear it though, but they are usually older people who are stuck in their generation.

Answer 10

I dont own fur, but i love my leather jacket and shoes. I love steak, all kinds, flank, filet mignon, God meant us to be carnivores I think, to fill the earth and subdue it, and use the animals for our benefit.