That practice absolutely disgusts me. My American culture makes me disgusted by eating dog (although Mike also told me that they have a particular breed that they use and they raise them like cattle for that purpose, like that makes it any more appetizing, and that it is EXTREMELY expensive so it's not used very much), but it goes against all of my morals to use ANY fur for ANY purpose other than to provide protection to the animal that God intended it for. I, too, don't own much leather and if I do it's cow leather because I know that they use the meat to feed us, but I agree it makes you want to consider vegetarianism.

zippy, I want to thank you for opening our eyes to this disgusting practice so that we can become more conscientious about things that we buy...I've learned so much on this list from you guys and again, with 13 dogs, we can use all the help we can get!