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Stop The Fur Trade

Posted: 24 Mar 2006, 19:56
by grim_tales
Clicky to sign the petition:

http://www.stopthefurtrade.co.uk/petition.htm

If you're a sensitive soul I wouldnt (according to Mark on Imports Forum anyway) watch the videos :( I cant bring myself to see them.

http://theimportforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=4943

Posted: 24 Mar 2006, 21:06
by Markgway
I hope bitches who wear fur get chewed to death slowly by a pack of mink. :evil:

Posted: 25 Mar 2006, 00:19
by EvaUnit02
Markgway wrote:mink.
So the plural for mink is just mink?

Posted: 25 Mar 2006, 00:33
by Mordib
the plural for mink is 'warm clothes' :twisted:

Posted: 25 Mar 2006, 01:48
by Markgway
Mordib is now on my shit list!! :evil:

Posted: 25 Mar 2006, 10:29
by grim_tales
EvaUnit02 wrote:
Markgway wrote:mink.
So the plural for mink is just mink?
Yeah ;)

Posted: 26 Mar 2006, 18:46
by gojensen
So's... uhm... I watched those videos ... and I thought...

WTF?! What's this got to do with anything...?! Dogs and cats... Eh!?

Then I read the top of the page, and my question changed slightly...

Who-t-f would want to wear a cat/dog fur coat?!

That's just... insane.

(Not to diss anyone dissing the furtrade or anything... I understand mink, and to a certain extent other "exotic" animals - but cats and dogs?! Achwell, synthetic has always been good enough for me anyways...).

Posted: 27 Mar 2006, 00:45
by bradavon
gojensen wrote:Who-t-f would want to wear a cat/dog fur coat?!
How's it any different? Both at the end of the day are fur and at the point you'd wear them would look basically the same anyway.

Now this is a law the government should ban, the selling of furs. Why haven't they?

Posted: 27 Mar 2006, 10:29
by grim_tales
If fur is banned, then shouldnt leather be banned as well?

Posted: 28 Mar 2006, 03:28
by EvaUnit02
grim_tales wrote:If fur is banned, then shouldnt leather be banned as well?
Nah, leather is different; athough some of the hippies who post on these forums would disagree. Large livestock animals like cattle and sheep are a renewable resource and are treated humanely for the most part.

Cattle are used for functional purposes like "useful" clothing and meat.

Posted: 28 Mar 2006, 09:33
by grim_tales
True, cattle are bred for that purpose. I dont wear leather though (but do eat meat).
Which do you think is worse though, I mean when you think about it, it still sounds pretty horrific, you are "bred" simply to be killed at some point? :? But its OK because its "useful". :roll:

Posted: 28 Mar 2006, 09:41
by Mordib
[quote="EvaUnit02"]Nah, leather is different; athough some of the hippies who post on these forums would disagree. Large livestock animals like cattle and sheep are a renewable resource and are treated humanely for the most part.

Cattle are used for functional purposes like "useful" clothing and meat.[/quote]


as the person who's got no problem with the fur trade (so im not too sure I qualify as a hippy :p) I find this quite a hypocritical statement. Things with fur are a renewable resource just like any other animal. Whilst there are of course exceptions (which the anti lobby use as if they are the standard example) creatures who are killed for their fur are killed relatively humanely (personally i dont think any killing can be described as humane, but compared to say how cattle is killed) because its in the killers interests to keep the fur in as good a condition as possible.


As usual I find myself on the unpopular side of a debate where I don't actualy personally like the thing i'm defending. I don't wear fur or even much leather . I will however defend the fur trade vigorously until people start thinking for themselves rather than just jumping on a bandwagon which uses half truths and extreme examples to forward its case. Use the internet. watch documentaries. you'll never have all the facts but at least collect some so you can make informed decisions about such things.

Posted: 28 Mar 2006, 15:55
by bradavon
Good point there Mordib.

For me personally the sheer fact they're being murdered is enough to make me angry.
grim_tales wrote:If fur is banned, then shouldnt leather be banned as well?
Yep but the crucial difference is cattle aren't a rare species. Man has already wiped out thousands of species from the planet I'd hate for us to do the same with say tiger.
EvaUnit02 wrote:Large livestock animals like cattle and sheep are a renewable resource and are treated humanely for the most part.
A live sentient being a resource, maybe I should refer to you as merely a resource?

Treated humanely keep living in your ivory tower. They're treated anything but humanely for the most part, yes humanely to an extent but for the most part yeah right.

Forcing cattle, sheep, chickens etc . . . into crates far to small and moving them hundreds of miles across country isn't humane.
EvaUnit02 wrote:Cattle are used for functional purposes like "useful" clothing and meat.
Using your argument I'd say a fur coat is very functional, it would keep you very warm in winter.
EvaUnit02 wrote:Nah, leather is different; athough some of the hippies who post on these forums would disagree.
Was that comment necessary?

For all the talk of "vegetarians always causing a problem" it's in my experience the devout meat eaters who moan first. Have I ever called you a meat eating murderer (directly)?
grim_tales wrote:I dont wear leather though (but do eat meat).
What ever? Many work places would frown upon you if you didn't wear leather shoes. Me I don't but then I've found leather alternatives, which look and feel like leather.

Posted: 28 Mar 2006, 15:58
by Mordib
lol i was in a bad moodlast time i posted :P

Posted: 28 Mar 2006, 16:34
by tom2681
French anti-fur campaign:

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Posted: 28 Mar 2006, 16:59
by bradavon
Oh my god, we should see more of this. Much more.

It's in English?

Posted: 28 Mar 2006, 19:04
by Markgway
bradavon wrote:It's in English?
Yeah, Jacques Chirac shot eight people for letting this one get out... :D

Posted: 28 Mar 2006, 19:18
by bradavon
Two of the three links in Grim's link to Imports don't work (they've been copy/pasted not linked properly) but the middle one does.

It's an interesting read, focusing mainly on China and even Guangzhou where Wong Fei Hung comes from I believe.

That Seal cull in Canada is evil, nothing short of it. In a Western society too.

Posted: 28 Mar 2006, 19:33
by Markgway
Perhaps we should have a cull of Canadians?





Just a thought..........? :?

Posted: 28 Mar 2006, 20:08
by tom2681
Brad wrote:It's in English?
Nope, I translated it from French so it'd make sense. :wink:

Posted: 28 Mar 2006, 20:12
by bradavon
I thought it was odd a Frog using English :D

Posted: 29 Mar 2006, 00:03
by Markgway
Brad that's racist!!

It's le Frog. :D

Posted: 29 Mar 2006, 00:10
by tom2681
MISTER "le Frog" if you please. :lol:

Image

Fur: visible sign of cruelty.

Posted: 29 Mar 2006, 02:32
by Markgway
That's horrible. Makes me want to kill people who wear fur. :twisted:

I remember this anti-fur campaign advert from donkey's ago where a supermodel is shown parading down a catwalk covered in blood. It was tough to stomach. It was even given a '18' certificate.

Posted: 29 Mar 2006, 10:24
by grim_tales
Brad - I dont think I've got any leather clothes (not even my shoes but not really sure), my wallet is leather though so there goes my argument.. ;)
I wouldnt class cattle as a "renewable resource" it sounds callous.