The reality of the fur industry

[spiderbabyx]

The really sad thing, is that this is the absolute "tamest" of this sort of film that I could find. This is happening here, in America. The ones from other countries are far worse. They are far crueler, clubbing the animals to death, even skinning them alive. I debated posting them, as well, but they were just so horrible, I couldn't even watch

Comments

[jo_lfs]

I wear both skins and furs becasue they are a part of my cultural history and heritage

[jo_lfs]

Okay I lied... I don't love Hyenas becasue they agro from a fucking MILE away.

[spiderbabyx]

I can see if all the parts of the animal were being used. I am really just meaning the fur trade where it's a "luxury" item. The exploitation is just fucking sick and wrong.

I mean, this video I put on here is the TAMEST of the fur farming videos I could find.

[0thers1de]

I totally agree with you. However, Shane told me I shouldn't watch this. He said I wouldn't be able to handle it and I believe him.

My uncle used to trap animals for fur when I was a child and I remember going into my grandma's garage and seeing all the naked corpses hanging from the rafters. It was awful.

I don't know why anyone would insist on wearing fur. We have so many other options these days. And synthetic fur looks so similar to real fur, why kill innocent creatures just to wear their skins?

[jo_lfs]

This reminds me of the old stories about how the fur traders decimated the herds on the great plains. 350,000 or so buffalo killed in a matter of a few years, all for just thier hides. The traders would come with thier long barrelled rifles, capable of killing a bull from almost a mile out and let loose on the herds killing indiscriminantly. After they had spent all thier ammunition, they would peel the skin back around the neck of the animal and tie thier horses to the unfolded areas of skin before whipping them away and literally tearing the skin from the buffalo, at which point they would just leave - leaving the entire carcass there to rot, with several hundred others from each 'hunt

[dntfrtprshsimhr]

I understand that there are varying opinions on the subject and pretty much everyone has a right to think what they want, but the type of situations you are referring to, the farms and such, are nothing but inhumane and revolting.

Anyone that could sit back and see something like that, the waste, the poor conditions, the natural balance being so out of place, and not think it is wrong probably has something wrong with them.

If the world were a perfect place and technologies were created to keep a balance in all things, perhaps "furs" and such wouldn't be as bad an ordeal as they are, but that day seems far off.

Humanity as a whole, no matter what they are doing, seem to drain and pollute the environment they reside in.

[jo_lfs]

'Humanity as a whole, no matter what they are doing, seem to drain and pollute the environment they reside in.

If you read and understand the actual biological definition of a virus, modern human society fits into it perfectly.

[nervhq7]

Just like most religions fit the definition of a cult...

[ezlet]

..... and a virus, heh.

[tochirooyama]

I don't have any issues with leather, for reasons similar to what jo_ifs said up there. Not that I especially reviere cows, or even pigs, but we use the entire thing. I know people who go deer hunting, kill a deer, eat it, and make stuff out of the leather. (Did you relise that every animal has enough brain matter to tan it's own hide?)

But I really can't see the point in farming fur. It just seems like the stupidest thing in the world to me. I don't think the coats look paticulally nice, especially when you consider Goddess only knows how many cute, furry little animals died to make it. (And fur animals are almost always cute...)

[anguissette_02]

Fur as fashion is disgusting. Fur as a cultural heritage in which the animal (not plural) is killed with reverence and revered for its gift by being used in whole is admirable.

We as a species have moved beyond the necessity of fur. We do not need it to keep warm. We do not need it to cover our bodies. And we certainly do not need most of the animals used to make commercial clothing as food. After all, would your first choice at dinner be minx?

Protest by not buying it. Protest testing on animals by not buying the products. We live in a consumer driven society, if the consumer refuses to buy the product, the product will cease to exist.

You will see VERY few items on a shelf in any store that are labeled as real fur. Most are synthetic.

[spiderbabyx]

*hugs* Agreed!

As we evolve, fewer and fewer people are willing to have all those unnecessary deaths on their hands.