Banning fur...

[Mac in Wisco]

Trapping used to be a way of life around here. My father trapped thousands of muskrat, mink, and beaver from the area waterways. Still plenty of critters around, but the market has been very soft. There are thousands of muskrat living in the creek and marshland not a thousand feet from my house, but nobody wants to work that hard for mediocre returns. Muskrats pelts are on the rise due to demand from China, but the price hasn't kept up with inflation over the past few decades so the returns are rather small compared to years ago.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I don't get ANY of it. Why is fur any worse than leather or steak or felt or any animal product? Someone needs to parade a panting sheep in full coat down the sidewalk.

 

[EweSheep]

Great idea, Sonoran! Let them SEE how a sheep suffers or alpalca or anything related to any animal that provides fiber for us to wear. Jeez, no worse than cutting our hair!

 

[pdsavage]

But you can still buy those feathers for your hair from roosters bred and killed just for feathers.Those people are hypocrites.

 

[EweSheep]

As for the feathers, they don't have to be killed for it...they can be deliberately plucked...poor roos!

 

[pdsavage]

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”At Whiting Farms Inc., in western Colorado, one of the world’s largest producers of fly tying feathers, the roosters live about a year while their saddle feathers — the ones on the bird’s backside and the most popular for hair extensions — grow as long as possible. Then the animal is euthanized.”

 

[Royd]

More rediculous rules and regulations on the human condition, from the land of fruits and nuts. I'll be so glad, when that society collapses under its own weight, and they are all standing around, scratching their heads, wondering how it happened.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Best I can tell, it does not ban shorn wool. Supposedly it is aimed at mink, chinchilla, bear, fox, such as that, but I would not want to wear my sheepskin coat there, assuming I would ever go there. I’ve never been, never lost anything there, so no reason to go there.

http://www.nationofchange.org/west-hollywood-nears-approval-fur-ban-1317487841

http://m.ibtimes.com/west-hollywood-223273.html

Or how some of our British friends see us.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/21/fur-ban-west-hollywood

 

[Sword]

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I have yet to hear an argument against fur that makes logical sense. I was on a different forum, and someone said he kept rabbits for meat and fur. No one batted an eye at using the meat, but he was getting death threats because of the fur. I just don't get what the difference is. And, although I'm not an expert on this, what about the environmental impact of everyone using synthetic coats? How many hundred years of sitting in a landfill is it going to take for a plastic coat to decompose? And what does plastic decompose into, anyways? Oh well, I'm getting off topic.

 

[debilorrah]

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Land of fruit and nuts is so appropriate for this state. I love living here, in my house out in the middle of the desert.