Is it odd to be anti-fur but still eat meat/wear leather?

[Sparx]

Sorry. I know there are mink in the wild but fur coats are generally made from farmed fur.
A poster said it was ok to use leather because the cattle were going to be killed anyway for their meat whereas the mink wouldn't be killed if we didn't use their fur. The point I was making was that the logic was false because if we didn't use fur we would not breed the mink in the first place. So, rather than being killed for its fur it would not be born.


ford family

If the mink's fur wasn't so prized, then they wouldn't have been placed in farms in teh first place, and would have left free in the wild is my point.

 

[Disneyrsh]

I just looked at my dogs' and my cat's food.

No mink in there-what kinda pet food are they putting mink into, anyway? Not that I've got a problem with that, my two poodles are regularly supplementing their food with freshly caught chipmunk parts (ewwww!), but I'd never heard of such a thing.

Maybe the Wal-Mart Ol' Roy brand....

 

[AnaheimGirl]

I do wish someone would respond to my query.

If you had to look at the entire carcass of a cow, pig, sheep, chicken, whatever, hanging skinned from a hook, and tell the butcher what part you wanted him to cut off for you to eat, would you still be so comfortable eating that meat. It would look an awful lot like the living animal.

I'm with you. I prefer to think of my meat as having always been cut and cleaned and laying in a foam tray covered with plastic wrap. I won't eat lobster in most restaurants because I can't stand the idea of the chef killing it specifically for me, but I'll buy tails at the grocery store. Probably very hypocritical of me, but like someone said, everyone has to draw the line somewhere. Hmm, although I have eaten fresh pork from a pig whose entire carcass I saw roasting on the spit, so I guess I can do it, I just prefer not to.

As for the OP, I feel the same way. I wear leather and eat meat, but I'd never buy a real fur coat. I'd never throw paint on someone who did, and I have no problem with people who wear them, it's just not something I'd do.

 

[ford family]

I just looked at my dogs' and my cat's food.

No mink in there-what kinda pet food are they putting mink into, anyway? Not that I've got a problem with that, my two poodles are regularly supplementing their food with freshly caught chipmunk parts (ewwww!), but I'd never heard of such a thing.

Maybe the Wal-Mart Ol' Roy brand....

Take a look at http://www.furcommission.com/resource/Resources/MFIUS.pdf
It seems petfood is the normal use for the leftover meat. Probably better quality than a lot of the rubbish that goes in otherwise.

ford family

 

[ford family]

If the mink's fur wasn't so prized, then they wouldn't have been placed in farms in teh first place, and would have left free in the wild is my point.

I think you are still missing the point. The animals on the fur farms are not taken from the wild. Their ancestors may have been 100 plus years ago but these mink are domestic animals who probably couldn't survive in the wild anyway. The first year survival rate for mink in captivity is many times greater than in the wild so the farmer can build up a viable stock much more quickly than if he was trying to resource from the wild. The number of mink in fur farms is thousands of times greater than there would be in the wild because they are protected and looked after until they are killed. None of these animals would ever be born if mink was not prized and the farms did not exist.
It is the same with all domesticated animals, they only exist because they serve a purpose for us. If we don't need them anymore they become extinct. If everbody stopped eating meat or using animal products then hundreds of millions of farm animals would have to be slaughtered.

ford family

 

[Lil_Tink]

As many others I perfer not to wear fur. Unless lets say the animal was already dieing and such. (My aunt gave me bunny fur when I was young and was so worried about it)..

I eat meat and think leather is ok, as many other posters they arent killed just for their skin as in fur.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I just looked at my dogs' and my cat's food.

No mink in there-what kinda pet food are they putting mink into, anyway? Not that I've got a problem with that, my two poodles are regularly supplementing their food with freshly caught chipmunk parts (ewwww!), but I'd never heard of such a thing.

Maybe the Wal-Mart Ol' Roy brand....

My dog prefers freshly caught rabbit. Se did sneak a chipmunk into the house recently. Doesn't she know that if she wants to eat it she can't do that inside? Ewwwww!

Oh, and no mink listed as an ingredient in our pet's food.

 

[daddydisneyworld]

It's pure hypocrisy. Isn't more sensible to make use out of the entire animal, rather than wasting paarts of it? Silly.

And, even if it is only bred for it's fur, so what. If you eat meat or wear leather, you are putting your own personal 'ratings" on which animals should live or die. They are here for our service & pleasure...opposable thumbs and all that...