Heather & Paul McCartney Campaign

[4getmenot]

Did anyone watch this? when they showed the video of skinning a dog alive, I was nearly sick. I would never wear fur now after watching this not that I wore it before but does that make me a hypocrit because I eat meat and wear leather shoes? What were your views on this program?

[bellasasha]

i didnt see the programme but i dont think it makes you a hypocrit unless the meat you are eating is dog! i think the main issue is HOW they get the fur from an animal...its very inhumane and very stressful for the animal.

[4getmenot]

Plus I back myself up that I need to eat, these people dont need to wear fur

[alfiebrady]

I didn't watch it, but would be interested to know why the dog wasn't killed before skinning it, and why it was filmed.

[twinkle2]

How awful was this? So sad. I had to turn off when they showed the video but just a split second of it was enough! I cant believe these people can do this to animals. They should have exactly the same done to them and see how they like it. That poor poor alsation.

[Homer55]

See my vest, see my vest,
Made from real gorilla chest,
Feel this sweater, there's no better,
Than authentic Irish setter.

See this hat, 'twas my cat,
My evening wear - vampire bat,
These white slippers are albino
African endangered rhino.

Grizzly bear underwear,
Turtles' necks, I've got my share,
Beret of poodle, on my noodle
It shall rest,

Try my red robin suit,
It comes one breast or two,
See my vest, see my vest,
See my vest.

Like my loafers? Former gophers -
It was that or skin my chauffeurs,
But a greyhound fur tuxedo
Would be best,

So let's prepare these dogs,
Mrs. Potts: Kill two for matching clogs,
Burns: See my vest, see my vest,
Oh please, won't you see my vest

Only kidding i agree totally with PETA and not wearing fur for fashion.

[Mortartube]

I saw this programme and I agree that it was totally cruel the way the animals were treated. I have no issue with people wearing the skin of an animal that is killed humanely for food i.e leather. After all, it would just be discarded and wasted otherwise. A friend once said to me that he thought it was more disrespectful not to use a skin of an animal that was killed for food than it would be to use it, which I agree with. On the other hand, I totally condemn the killing of animals for their pelts for the fashion trade with no other reason involved.

[Ward-Minter]

View on the Programme, quite interesting insofaras I look out of my window and can see Sir Pauls house (almost)

As for the skinners. I wish cancer on them.

My lifestyle. I eat meat except pate de foie gras and veal and only hunt and fish for animals I eat. I also hate fox hunting.

[Englishbird]

There is no reasonable argument for wearing fur for fashion. I can live with hunting as long as the product is eaten, I abhor fox or stag hunting, badger baiting, seal clubbing or any so called 'Blood Sport'.

I do eat meat, and I wear Leather. I think it is part of the 'circle of life' for want of a less poncy phrase, and is natural for us to eat animals and use the by-products from them, as with all predators. I am careful that I buy free range chicken and RSPCA inspected meat. There is no reason that animals cannot be treated well whilst being used for our ends.

When I was a teenager, there were huge campaigns against the fur trade, many of which were a fatality of their own success, LYNX went bust, because essentially the fur trade in Western cilvilisation was stopped, or at the very least wholly unfashionable. I think it's time to dust off the petitions and sharpen our pencils to stop this awful and completely unnecessary practice that is creeping back in to our society.

[utternutter]

The people who skin those poor animals should not be allowed near any animals and i wish them harm!!!!!!

They are sick, i know people skinned animals in the ice age or whatever to stay WARM not to parade around wearing some innocent animal that probably has a family!!!

THEY HAVE BLOOD ON THIER HANDS

[alfiebrady]

Not sure where the line is being drawn here; is leather acceptable because it's regarded as a by-product of animal slaughter for food?

[jeannamacs]

I watched this programme, and while i agree strongly with the principle they promote, I just cant bear the sight or sound of her. she just keeps on saying the same thing, she just doesnt articulate the cause strongly enough and it all seems like the Heather Mills show. I suppose this sounds cynical as if she can use her celebrity to promote the cause - so be it i suppose.

[Hammer Head]

If you are going to kill an animal for your own use, I don't think that you can say that it is justified if you eat the animal, but not justified if you only use the fur or skin. After all, millions of people live healthy lives without ever eating meat.

I didn't see this particular programme but I have seen film of animals being skinned alive and I did wonder why they didn't kill them first. I don't wear fur because I can't afford it. I would not condemn anyone who does wear fur because I wear leather shoes. The fact that we also ate the cow seems irrelevant to me.

To wear leather and condemn someone wearing fur is as hypocritical as the vegetarian who eats fish.

[amandaj66]

I didn't see the documentary, because I knew it would really upset me. I had heard about the skinning of animals alive before, this is supposed to make the fur stand up and be more luxuriant-hardly surprising.

I am a meat eater, and wear leather, a bi-product of the meat trade. I do not wear fur. I recently saw part of a documentary about an abatoir which made me sick. Did anyone see it? The people working there were, in the main brainless morons who didn't give a damn about the animals.