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February 22, 2012
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livewithall: quietecstasy: furfreela: That’s a load of BS.  So Let me get this straight – according to the Fur Is Green Facebook group,  if you are a compassionate person who wants animals to be able to live out their lives in protected habitats and doesn’t want them to be bludgeoned, trapped, or drowned in the wild, or vaginally electrocuted, gassed, or to spend their entire lives in small cages, you are a “fanatic”. But if you rationalize those things under the guise of “supporting thousands of jobs”, while avoiding looking at or openly addressing the actual acts and images associated with fur production, and indulging in toxically peserved luxury products, you are an “environmentalist”? Therefore, according to the CFC, compassion and empathy is fanatical.Producing a fur coat from ranch-raised animals takes more than 15 times as much energy as it does to produce a faux-fur coat! In addition, runoff waste from fur farms destroys waterways, and the toxic chemicals used (ammonia, chromates, bleaching agents, coal tar derivatives, hydrogen peroxide, formaldehyde, sulphides) to preserve the skins are also harming the environment. The fur industry has even lobbied governments in the Great Lakes area to maintain low water-quality standards—so that fur farms won’t be identified as major polluters. Wild trapping is no better,  indiscriminately catching whatever wanders into the trap – cats, dogs, endangered species – who are all thrown away after a miserable death. You’re a taxidermist. You love real fur. Quit preaching your pro fur views. I see right through it… naturepunk: PETA has been praising faux fur for ages. What they don’t address is the simple fact that faux fur still supports real fur by sending the message that fur of any kind is acceptable in the fashion industry. Likewise, they fail to address the fact that the production of faux fur has a larger negative environmental impact than the production of real fur. Faux fur, made from acrylic (plastic) fibers, does not rot in a landfill, costs more to produce, and is created using more toxic chemicals than are used in tanning agents required for real fur. More info on the environmental aspect of furs can be found here: http://www.furisgreen.com/furisgreen.aspx If you wear faux fur but sneer at anyone wearing a genuine mink coat, take a look in the mirror and consider the fact that you fashion choice still supports the industry AND has a larger negative impact on the environment.  I don’t care if it’s real or fake, fur is gross. Straight up. I do not understand why anybody would want to wear the fur of a dead animal or make it seem that way. Fur is ugly. Fur and faux-fur both send ugly messages. So since both, faux and real fur, seem to have large negative impacts, why not like, not wear fur at all?  Amen. To clarify. Real fur kills thousands of animals directly. Faux fur kills thousands of animals indirectly. No fur kills no animals. Pretty simple, isn’t it?

livewithall:

quietecstasy:

furfreela:

That’s a load of BS.  So Let me get this straight – according to the Fur Is Green Facebook group,  if you are a compassionate person who wants animals to be able to live out their lives in protected habitats and doesn’t want them to be bludgeoned, trapped, or drowned in the wild, or vaginally electrocuted, gassed, or to spend their entire lives in small cages, you are a “fanatic”. But if you rationalize those things under the guise of “supporting thousands of jobs”, while avoiding looking at or openly addressing the actual acts and images associated with fur production, and indulging in toxically peserved luxury products, you are an “environmentalist”? Therefore, according to the CFC, compassion and empathy is fanatical.

Producing a fur coat from ranch-raised animals takes more than 15 times as much energy as it does to produce a faux-fur coat! In addition, runoff waste from fur farms destroys waterways, and the toxic chemicals used (ammonia, chromates, bleaching agents, coal tar derivatives, hydrogen peroxide, formaldehyde, sulphides) to preserve the skins are also harming the environment. The fur industry has even lobbied governments in the Great Lakes area to maintain low water-quality standards—so that fur farms won’t be identified as major polluters. Wild trapping is no better,  indiscriminately catching whatever wanders into the trap – cats, dogs, endangered species – who are all thrown away after a miserable death.

You’re a taxidermist. You love real fur. Quit preaching your pro fur views. I see right through it…

naturepunk:

PETA has been praising faux fur for ages. What they don’t address is the simple fact that faux fur still supports real fur by sending the message that fur of any kind is acceptable in the fashion industry.

Likewise, they fail to address the fact that the production of faux fur has a larger negative environmental impact than the production of real fur.

Faux fur, made from acrylic (plastic) fibers, does not rot in a landfill, costs more to produce, and is created using more toxic chemicals than are used in tanning agents required for real fur. More info on the environmental aspect of furs can be found here: http://www.furisgreen.com/furisgreen.aspx

If you wear faux fur but sneer at anyone wearing a genuine mink coat, take a look in the mirror and consider the fact that you fashion choice still supports the industry AND has a larger negative impact on the environment. 

I don’t care if it’s real or fake, fur is gross. Straight up. I do not understand why anybody would want to wear the fur of a dead animal or make it seem that way. Fur is ugly. Fur and faux-fur both send ugly messages.

So since both, faux and real fur, seem to have large negative impacts, why not like, not wear fur at all? 

Amen.

To clarify. Real fur kills thousands of animals directly. Faux fur kills thousands of animals indirectly. No fur kills no animals.

Pretty simple, isn’t it?


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  1. keylasrixx reblogged this from naturepunk
  2. srixxhowls reblogged this from naturepunk
  3. urkel-grue reblogged this from furfreela and added:
    this. Fur isn’t fashionable, real OR fake. REAL...inhumane, and faux
  4. brombie reblogged this from naturepunk
  5. jessicajasminecow reblogged this from tofujesus and added:
    I don’t agree with this yet at the same time I supose I do! I can see the argument and I guess it is true but at the...
  6. itslittlekait reblogged this from veganfiction
  7. to-her-darkness reblogged this from natfink and added:
    It sure is funny how often I get yelled at in the streets for wearing my fake fur. Then I ask those people what they do...
  8. everyoneloves-me reblogged this from fuckyeahcompassion
  9. natfink reblogged this from veganpunkpixie and added:
    ^^ Exactly what veganpunkpixie said! I, along with other animal rights activists I know, wear fake fur as it promotes...
  10. angryvegan reblogged this from veganpunkpixie
  11. veganpunkpixie reblogged this from tofujesus and added:
    FAUX FUR does not promote this at all! faux fur if anything show you can wear something fashionable and no animals are...
  12. harborliights reblogged this from tofujesus and added:
    I don’t care if it’s real or fake, fur is gross. Straight up. I do not understand why anybody would want to wear the fur...
  13. alwaysclosertotheflame reblogged this from fuckyeahcompassion
  14. tofujesus reblogged this from fuckyeahcompassion
  15. naturepunk reblogged this from empatheticvegan and added:
    It’s actually the far right on the top row and second to far right on the bottom. All others are fake. I Photoshopped...
  16. empatheticvegan reblogged this from furfreela and added:
    fur really is fake (in Canada anything under $120 can...labelled however they
  17. fuckyeahcompassion reblogged this from furfreela
  18. bashiebat reblogged this from naturepunk and added:
    THIS.^ Furfreela is full of it. God help me if I ever run into one of these idiots while out and about in LA.
  19. cruelsummers reblogged this from naturepunk and added:
    being ‘toxic’ - that’s the real load of “bull shit”...you already know that, too.
  20. healtheworld92 reblogged this from furfreela
  21. furfreela reblogged this from naturepunk and added:
    BS. So Let me get this straight – according...Fur Is Green Facebook group, if you are a...
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  26. ameondine reblogged this from nightinthewoods and added:
    I’d actually never thought much about faux fur before. I always thought, ‘Sure, faux fur is good because no body gets...