But is that done anymore? Having grown up in a rural/farming community I’ve SEEN up close and personal mink, beaver, etc and the damage they can do to crops and land, etc. Honest to god? If you ever saw a mink in person you’d want to beat it to death with whatever you could get your hands on. They are that disgusting. “Big Rat” does not even cover it. They are vermin, plain and simple. Should they be raised in farms specificly for fur coats? I don’t know…probably not. Should they be released to make a statement then crushed under the wheels of passing cars? NO! Jebus! :rolleyes:
Heh. This reminds me of a story my sister-in-law told me last year. A couple that she and my brother are friends with are both vegetarian. They’ve got a toddler but have allowed meat in the kid’s diet. They’d been expecting the kid to switch over when she goes through that “whaddya mean that meat comes from animals?” phase. Last year while eating hamburger she does the following:
K: Does hamburger come from cows?
P: Yes, honey.
K: Does the cow die?
P: I’m afraid so, honey.
K: [long pause] That’s too bad. [takes another bite]
voguevixen, you forgot to mention the godawful smell.
It’s fun to watch them battle it out with seagulls, though. Who do you root for?
Will the PETA zealots even be able to tell teh faux fur from the real deal?
That gives me an idea - a cow that doesn’t die when you harvest meat from it! To the laboratory!
Does anyone know what happens to the rest of the mink when they take the fur? Is it ground up into cat food? I’m not really a fan of fur (go figure - I have many leather products), but I don’t really have a problem with it, especially if they can use the rest of the carcass for something useful.
I would so buy mink cat food for my cats. They’re not nearly spoiled enough.
What is that quote? Something like: Why do animal rights activists only hassle fur wearers and not leather wearers? Because it’s much safer to hassle rich women than motorcycle gang members. That always makes me laugh.
And I consider myself someone who works hard for proper treatment of animals, from the house cat to the chicken on the farm. I wear leather, not fur though. Just not my style. Feel too much like my bunnies and hamsters. Minks are nasty little animals. They stink, they bite, if they were in your house, you’d rush to the hardware store for traps. Cows are cute, but they are tasty and their hides durable.
If God didn’t want us to eat animals, he wouldn’t have made them so tasty.
Reading s#$* like this is so embarrassing to supporters of organizations that actually HELP endangered animals without ridiculous and obnoxious (and slanderous?) ad campaigns. It’s like some idiot getting on t.v. and saying they bombed an abortion clinic because they are a Christian and it’s what God would want. GAH!! Rat bastards. With this one PETA, you give the rest of the world’s animal lovers a bad name!
I think it has to do with associated cuteness.
Compare the mental images prompted by the following adjectives:[ul][]Furry[]Leathery[/ul]Now, which one are you going to rush to the defense of first-- Squirrel Nutkin or Bea Arthur?
I eat meat, wear leather and I have a fur coat, which I wear occassionally when its cold enough outside, sometimes with my jeans and steel-toed boots.
PETA activists seem to only approach people who wouldn’t possibly kick the living crap out of them, like parents toting their small children to a play. What rabbit turds they are!
I believe in protecting endangered animals as well, but no one is walking around in a panda parka, or a jaguar jacket.
Ranch minks are just that, raised on a ranch, not in the wild.
I’m convinced now that PETA isn’t actually an animal-rights organization at all…they’re a “front” organization, designed by the meat and fur industries themselves to discredit the animal-rights movement.
That, or they’re some sort of tax-writeoff scam. Or a front for Mafia money laundering.
That started LONG before this campaign.
Actually, I think a SAW, about 500 rounds on belts and a box of hand grenades would be far more appropriate…
“Well a cow like that you can’t eat all at once”
ROFL! That was my uncle Bob’s favorite joke.
What’s the set-up?
In the version I heard, a farmer is trying to sell a blind, diseased, swaybacked horse, lying in a pile of straw, and apparently near death. The buyer asks “Why is she lying there like that?” and the farmer says “All quality horses lie like that, sir-- it’s a sign of good breeding.” The buyer walks around the stable and objects, “It’s a sign that someone’s cut her back legs off, is what it is! What are you trying to pull?”
The farmer protests: “She’s a fine mare, sir! Look at those teeth, look at her excellent muscle tone! I’ll have you know that the King himself has ridden her. She’s unwaveringly loyal, and easily as intelligent as a man. Why, she’s actually saved my life on more than one occasion!”
“Then why did you cut her back legs off?” asks the man.
“Well, you can’t eat a fine animal like that all at once!”
AARRGGH!
PETA, @#$%&*!
Okay, I’m a genuine animal fanatic, work at a zoo, own (owned BY) many pets, all for ethical treatment etc, but…
ARGH!!! PETA, @#$%*&!
It’s like the same idiots around here that just passed a ban on selling exotic animals in Surrey and are now trying to make it a ban on ownership too. Doesn’t sound too bad, huh? Well, the list even includes stickbugs and cockroaches, forgoodnesssake!
The reasoning seems to be that animals should be free. No quibble with the basic premise, but most of the critters in question haven’t been “free” for a couple dozen generations and wouldn’t have a clue what a jungle was! How do you turn loose an albino snake, for instance? If a predator didn’t snap it up within a day. it’d go blind in the sun or starve to death because it was used to eating frozen mice and hadn’t a clue how to hunt.
Save us from the “Saviours”!
TRUE STORY:
Worked for a Vice-President at American Express as a temp secretary during a really bad period in my life. Every month we got a load of letters from small children about a very unfortunate offering that AmEx made to its cardholders some years before that; it seems that that in Germany, hamsters are regarded as suitable sources of fur-coat fur, much as we regard minks and rabbits. The European buyer for AmEx, knowing of the American view of hamsters as small lovable pets, thought that the origin of these coats could somehow be…umm…disguised if the fur was called “golden amster” fur in the ads. Yeah, right.
Thousands of outraged ten-year-old girls wrote to AmEx when the brochures hit the homes of affluent Americans–“You murdered Mr. Wiggles’ brothers and sisters to make a Coat! I hate you forever and hope you rot! Signed, Jennifer K, 3rd grade.”
Five years after the coats had been forever banished from AmEx “luxury offerings” circulars, we were STILL getting these letters.
I personally have no problem with rabbit coats, ever since the little ^%#$*s ate most of a vegetable garden despite excellent fencing. They OWE me.