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FUR PROTESTERS

FUR PROTESTERS TARGET BURBERRY BOUTIQUE

Animal rights activists dressed as cave people gathered outside a Burberry boutique Tuesday in downtown Hong Kong, protesting the company's use of fur.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/01/16/peta.html

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While I don't condone the slaughter of animals without a purpose, this is just silly. Protesting for animals rights is just nonsensical. We are at the top of the food chain, and they are at the bottom. We protect those endangered because its our responsibility. But if they aren't endangered then isn't it our evolutionary right to use the lower animals as our fodder, as our warmth and comfort? Of course it is! Natural selection selected us, not them, to be the master of this planet for this period of time.

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This doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Here in the UK, you haven't been able to walk around wearing fur, without fear for about 25 years!
people who do, face violence, or the very least can expect to have a tin of red paint poured on them (to imply the shedding of the animals blood in the name of the fur coat industry)
Fake/faux fur is acceptable, and you can tell the difference, but dare to wear the real thing, and I think you would spend your time looking over your shoulder!

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They dressed as cave people? Didn't cave people kill animals and use their skins and furs for clothing out of necessity? Did these demonstrators wear animal skins and furs to protest the wearing of animal skins and furs? That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.

While I'm not a fan of killing animals for fur in this day and age of readily available clothing from other materials, I don't believe in pouring red paint on folks who choose to wear furs, either.

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I am not a big fan of PETA and I would always challenge their pathetic agenda. They tried to bring down the Australian wool industry for mulesing a practice where farmers remove a part of a sheep's skin to protect them from flystrike. This is ridiculous and mis-guided campaign on the part of PETA whose motives I question. Australia has one of the largest wool industries in the world and the number of sheep combined with our harsh climate make mulesing the most viable method for protecting these animals. It will be phased out eventually, but the unrealistic bullyboy tactics of PETA are disgraceful.

However, in saying that, I am not a fan of using exotic fur for the sake of high-end fashion. Why should we kill animals so that we can look a million dollars? I regard that as sick. Every animal has as much right to life as we do.

We farm animals for food and certain materials. That is fine as it serves a legitimate purpose that we need. But killing animals for their fur and their ivory is just catering to rich twits who want to show everyone how wealthy and powerful they are. It serves no legitimate purpose whatsoever.

And what is wrong with using fake fur? How is it any different, except that some posh wanker in Kensington can't brag to their latte sipping friends about the dead animal they wear around their neck.

I think the stupid demonstrations that organisations like PETA conduct are very counter-intuitive. They just trivialise animal cruelty and sugar coat it with a type of stigmatism that most ordinary folk resent. They should spend more money educating people about animal cruelty and the methods that fashion and cosmetic manufacturers use to produce their make-up and fur products.

Message Edited... Farseer: Changed a word (that was probably just a typo) that might have been offensive.