why fur is bad?

Question

- the treatment in the fur farms(small cages)
- the way they kill them

i need more reasons plz

Answer 1

No federal humane slaughter law protects animals in fur factory farms.

To kill the animals without damaging their fur, trappers usually strangle, beat, or stomp them to death. Animals on fur farms may be gassed, electrocuted, poisoned with strychnine, or have their necks snapped. These methods are not 100 percent effective and some animals "wake up" while being skinned.

The fur industry refuses to condemn even blatantly cruel killing methods. Genital electrocution—deemed “unacceptable” by the American Veterinary Medical Association in its “2000 Report of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia”—causes animals to suffer from cardiac arrest while they are still conscious.

Animals can languish in traps for days. Up to 1 out of every 4 trapped animals escapes by chewing off his or her own feet, only to die later from blood loss, fever, gangrene, or predation.

To cut costs, fur farmers pack animals into small cages, preventing them from taking more than a few steps back and forth. This crowding and confinement is especially distressing to minks—solitary animals who may occupy up to 2,500 acres of wetland habitat in the wild.

Each mink skinned by fur farmers produces about 44 pounds of feces. Based on the total number of minks skinned in the United States in 2004, which was 2.56 million, mink factory farms generate tens of thousands of tons of manure annually.

According to a study by Ford Motor Company engineer Gregory H. Smith, it takes almost three times as much energy to make a coat from trapped animals' pelts—and 40 times as much from ranch-raised furs—than it does to make a fake fur coat.

See:
http://furisdead.com/facts.asp
http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=56

Photos: http://www.furisdead.com/photos-traps.asp

Videos: http://www.petatv.com/skins.html

Answer 2

I don't think your wearing "faux" fur is bad... I'm vegan, and I would think it better you are wearing faux fur than the real thing... I have a lot of things that I can't afford the "upgrade" for, so I appreciate and use what I have and let other people solve their own questions for themselves (like, whether or not they are going to be bothered with it...). Also, I guess it is worth looking into about the whole "possible cat/dog fur thing" and I do think it is good that our friends who we want to set an example for of veganism know that, if they ask, it's "not real"... Honestly, I think it's easy to tell the difference, and if someone is so fixated on what you're wearing that they can't tell the difference, then they are just looking for things to criticize and I wouldn't listen to them... No offense to your friend, I think she is trying to be helpful, but I would go veggie and then, when you can afford a new coat, get a new coat...

Answer 3

I would think those reasons are enough.

Last autumn, I was wearing a jacket with a "No Fur" button, and some doofus asked me if I would have opposed fur 100 or some years ago. I said something like, look, back then, people didn't have a choice, there weren't substitutes to keep you warm. But now we do have substitutes so we don't need to kill animals to keep warm in the winter.

So I don't object to the fact that people wore fur 100, 200, 500 years ago--they had nothing else to keep them warm. But it's the 21st century, and we have ways to keep us warm that don't involve breeding and caging animals and brutally slaughtering them, sometimes skinning them alive.

Answer 4

It's just wasteful to raise an animal exclusively for their pelt only to discard the rest of the body.
I do eat meat though and see nothing wrong with using by- products of that industry. I think if we're going to kill animals, we should at least use as much of the body as is possible.

Answer 5

Because you need to kill an animal. This doesn't bother you?

Answer 6

Some people believe wearing furs is a waste of the animal, funny thing is many that protest fur will still wear leather, which comes from an animal. The native Americans have worn furs and hides most of their existence. If the animal is used for food, or the remaining parts are returned to the earth, I see nothing wrong with furs, but if the body is wasted, that is another story. But then I also notice where this was posted, the death of an animal for food or from its normal life cycle is part of life and the balance of nature.

Answer 7

It comes off animals we don't need to wear it.

Answer 8

here's another reason: faux fur is cheaper!

Answer 9

i dont like to wear dead things.

Answer 10

can get a little stuffy if your wearing one of those georgous mink coats or hats when it gets warmer....