Inside A Russian Fur Farm

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36135834

I am not sure if there are any fur-wearers on AB. You very rarely see women wearing fur in Britain, apart from around the wealthier parts of London, but I think this is disgusting. What does everybody else think ?

[rockyracoon]

I wouldn't wear it.

[jno]

so what's a racoon going to do, rocky, wear silk?

[Old_Geezer]

IMO killing for food is a natural part of the food chain, and once done it is wasteful and disrespectful not to use all of the animal.

Killing pests and the like are an unfortunate inevitability to ensure, for example, good crops and hygiene and houses that don't fall down and .... etc.

Killing just to grab an animal's skin is unjustifiable. It implies the life of that animal is so worthless anything can be done to it because humans are more powerful and that's all that counts. I dislike this idea of 'farming' for furs/skins.

[mikey4444]

Remember this ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lohEqT1_C_o

[wolf63]

I have never worn a real fur coat and I probably never will.

However my Princess Merlin is a long haired cat and her fur is so thick and soft and I have told her that, when she dies, I am going to make her into a pair of slippers. :-)

[RATTER15]

I used to live very close to a very large mink farm in Devon, the mink were reared in open cages that protected them from the rain but not the cold, the cold weather encouraged deep thick fur apparently. This was also the place where one night all the mink were released by animal activists and where they were first spotted living wild, in the River Teign. It really was a very cruel place!!

[mikey4444]

It has been said that it takes many dumb animals to make a fur coat but only one dumb woman to wear it.

[Quizproquo]

Not just women Mikey

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/cd/99/10/cd9910bcc718396b56f23745771f4fad.jpg

[mikey4444]

No but mostly women Q !

[Togo]

Why are PETA not out there threatening the workers and owners of the farm?

[atalanta]

This may be deeply controversial, but think about it:
real fur is a renewable resource. You can easily breed animals. Lots of non-natural fibres come from non-renewable resources like oil/coal. If you live in a very cold country, it is "greener" to wear animal products for clothes and boots than to use artificial fibres. It is also warmer, so less natural material needs to be used than artificial. You may say that we should restrict our meat-eating to sheep-meat, ( which disagrees with some people) and restrict our animal-resourced clothes to wool, but many people can't wear wool, either. Also, production methods for artificial fibres is far worse for the environment than production of animal-based materials.

[RATTER15]

Atalanta. I don't think people are so bothered about fur farming as a neccesity, I think the problem is when the fur is worn as a status symbol or fashion statement. I may be wrong!