Is wearing fur really any worse than eating meat?

Answer 1

yes its its worse because the fur that is being worn is mostly from endangered species or from animals which are kept in unsuitable and unnatural conditions for them which cause distress for the animal and your killing it just for vanity and appearances while the animals used for meat are killed for food which has for thousands of years been the natural order of things and they are not in any danger of extinction or housed in unsuitable living conditions and most of the animal will go to providing food..there is a big difference between the two.

Answer 2

I believe that the only reason those who choose a vegetarian lifestyle can do so is because of the Global Market. If they had to rely on a diet produced here in the UK they would starve. We haven't the land to grow the crops needed and the cost for producing foods that won't grow in our climate would be astronomical. When the expected Global Warming becomes worse they might have to!!! Therefore killing and eating meat, using it's skin to make suede and leather or even fur garments isn't a problem for me. Coney is just a fur traders name for Rabbit and I'd eat one!
What I do have a problem with is killing an animal just after birth (Seal) and leaving it's carcass to rot! Killing a beautiful creature like a Leopard or Tiger just so some rich woman can prance around looking fashionable and again not consuming the meat. Or raising 100's of small animals like Mink and keeping them in atrocious conditions again so that the rich can wear the skins of 100 or so of them and not eating the meat.
When I die and no longer need my body I'd be quite happy to think of it being chopped up and fed to the animals in the zoo! Far better that than being buried or burnt.
Perhaps the Buddists in Tibet that used to dispose of bodies that way had the right idea!

Answer 3

Well you presuppose that eating meat is bad, which I believe it is not. As far as wearing fur, I assume there is a reason you did not include leather in your question as that comes from the very same meat that we eat. As put forth earlier much of the fur does come from predators. What many people do not realize is that nature is a cycle and balance of prey and predator each using its natural talents to hunt or elude capture and consumption. What many fail to realize is that we are not immune from this same cycle and have a rightful place as predator, (or farm animal for you vegetarians) and as so many have worked so hard to remove themselves from the intimacies of nature, by saying "we don't need to kill our meat anymore" "or hunt" "buy it at the grocery store" "become a vegetarian" they do not understand concepts such as carrying capacity, and how over population creates starvation and disease and how human kind through science and technology has artificially increased it's own carrying capacity and is useing up habitat for animals for a parking lot to a shopping mall. I think if more people were involved in the life cycle of nature and had a greater understanding of nature they could appreciate the fur and would not support more development and construction and massive socialization to help the poor.

Answer 4

Provided that you honour the Animal for the meat *and* the fur it gives, no. But if the Animal is bred for only meat and the rest is waste or only fur and the same; then there's a problem. I've seen what happens in feedlots, in mink cages, in chicken, veal and pig farms. It's appalling; yet I can *still* eat meat and I still wear leather.
Before you go on a PETA tear, the belts, purses and hat I wear comes from gentlemen who honour the spirits of those they hunt and use all of the creature.
As for my shoes, I bless them. I'm pragmatic and I have arthritis. I *need* to wear certain shoes, so I bless my shoes. If you don't like it, don't read on because I like bloody rare meat.
Which I *do* bless at each and every meal. Like I said before, I know what goes on in a factory farm. It's not like a family farm where I grew up. We treated our animals well, and they had grass to eat and grass to sleep and roam on. WE knew if they were sick and when we killed them, it was fast. They suffered very little. Grandpa was that good and Grandma was fast with the axe (like it or not)
All of us should bless our food and all factory farms should be shut down. We should be treating our animals better than we do; but really, folks, we as Humans treat other Humans just as poorly.

Answer 5

Well, it depends if the fur was obtained from an animal purely for it's fur then no. Many, many cultures respect the fact that if you are going to kill an animal, you must use ALL of it. So the question is, was the rest of the animal use for the fur, or were the remains tossed.

So, that is where you should start. Killed for fur only, bad, killed for everything, good.

I would also suggest that if you wish to use animals for your benefit, you should give back,such as by being buried in bio-degradable coffin. Use your body for something good once you don't need it. Did you know, that in some extreme Buddhist cultures, while they accepted the above of using all he parts of an animal, at death, they had their bodies left in the forest to help feed feed the animals instead of being buried or cremated.

Yeah, a bit gross, but it demonstrates a harmonic circle of using nature but then making the ultimate sacrifice to give back what you took.

For me, I am getting frozen, so I better move onto becoming vegan fast :)

Answer 6

yes wearing fur is worse than eating meat animals are killed just for fur which is wrong but if animals are killed for food it is a different matter all together,there is enough fabrics on the market including good fake fur so there is no need to murder animals for it why do you think that a lot of wild animals(tigers)etc are an endangered species i can assure you it's not for the meat

Answer 7

Something has to die for something else to live. Whether you're a vegetarian or a meat eater, wear fur or cotton - a plant or an animal dies. If you have to have farms that take up more land destroying natural habitat or more animals die to feed and cloth us, it's all the same. We're depleting the earth of it's resources because there so many of us. At some point the demand will exceed the supply.

Answer 8

Read these articles from the Humane Society and then decide. The one about the raccoon dogs breaks my heart. Dont watch the video. It will give you nightmares.

There is no reason to kill an animal just for its fur. We dont need to wear fur to stay warm. And you will never see anything pretty about fur after reading about the raccoon dogs. I believe its ok to eat animals but they should be cared for humanely while they are alive and be killed humanely. And we should use as much of the animal as possible.

Answer 9

Ya. the reason being, that some of the animals are killed for the purpose of Fur alone and no other reason and the second reason is if an animal is killed for meat, it serves at least three people but Fur serves only one person.

Answer 10

A coat made of chicken feathers....

If the animal is slaughtered for food, it makes good sense to use the skin or fur.

If the animal is raised for its fur, e.g. a mink, the fur is a beautiful thing, but perhaps the feelings of the animal ought be considered.

Meat from animals raised in confined places is perhaps less ethical than free-range.

Fur coats have been a symbol of protection among humans.

regards,

j.

p.s. "A Philosophy of Universality" and "Man, Master of His Destiny," O. M. Aivanhov, and "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, talk to this issue in a general way.

Answer 11

my fiancee is a vegetarian, and i am not. he wears leather and i refuse to. neither of us will wear fur.

i believe it is ok to consume animals for nutrition, and he thinks that since we can consume all the nutrition we need to live through other means.

he wears leather because leather is the ONLY animal skin you can wear, where the cow didn't die just for his skin. leather is plentiful because the US breeds far too many cows (global warming anyone?) and uses them primarily for food. they then take the left over skin form the animal and process it and make a coat or shoes of whatever out of it. it was going to die, we should probably use every part of it so it's death is as beneficial to us as possible. But I don't like wearing skin that isn't mine. Have you ever seen PITA ruin leather? no you haven't.

animal fur, however, is a very very different thing. the animal is killed solely for a pretty coat. that is wrong. if there was an animal bigger than us on the food chain we would be pissed that we were being eaten, but even more pissed that the pretty ones that they found of us were being killed just for our skin. that's horrible.

it's all opinion, but isn't human treatment of animals based on our opinion? it's up to you to decide what you think is right for yourself, and what you think is best for our world.