Originally posted by guster girl
We probably won't hear their side, but, I'd be interested in hearing the sides of the people who voted yes. I eat meat and wear leather, though, and, I don't see that that's any better than wearing fur. Seems kind of like a double standard to say it's ok to wear leather but not fur. I don't know, but, no, I don't have fur. I did have rabbit's feet keychains as a kid, and, I think I had a rabbit fur coat, too. Not sure, though, if it was real or not. I want to say it was.
Leather:

Not all the animals that it comes from went thorough a horrible life. It could be from a deer- which lived a natural life in the wild then was killed QUICKLY from an arrow/bullet. It could be a cow that died of old age on the farm and was skinned to make use of its carcass. Of course, I am sure there is some leather that came from cows/animals that lived a horrible life- that's typical.


Fur:

Every single piece of fur that came from a fur-farm means the animal was skinned alive- so the body stays warm, making it easier to skin off the fur. The animal also lived the crappiest life every imaginable in a cage WAY too small, hardly any food or water, chewing limbs off from bordem, mentalness, and hunger. It's horrible!

The fur that comes from trappers in the wild isn't any better-except for the animal got to live a normal live until it stepped into the trap. That animal had to suffer in a leg hold trap with it's leg/s mangled and throbbing in pain. Many animals gnaw at their limbs off in desperate attempts to get away- or fall victim to predators that make an easy meal out of the trapped animal.

I am a hunter and I am dead against trapping- it is horrible! Way, way, way, way worse than hunting!