If you buy fur, think of the bloodshed, brutality and pain inflicted to make the coats and other forms of apparel. Remember that fur is meant for animals, not for human beings. If we were meant to have fur it would grow on us naturally. If you had a dog, would you consent to letting someone kill it and wear its coat? If not, why buy or wear blue fox, bear, raccoon or coyote coats? If you had pet ferrets, would you skin them alive to make various articles of clothing? If not, why buy or wear mink, ermine, sable, chinchilla, or the like?
Does animal fur keep you warmer than plant-derived, synthetic, or non-lethally-derived fabrics? And whether it does or not, why buy or wear fur at all? By the way, it is very hypocritical of someone to say, buy coats of seal skin, unless the purchaser or wearer of seal pelts could picture themselves actually clubbing to death vulnerable and virtually defenseless baby and adult seals. In all cases, I think that if someone is considering buying or wearing fur; they should at least watch, if not participate in, the slaughter. (to be cont'd)
[The original version of this essay originally appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and as part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays]
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