Ban on furs

[Scarecrow Akhbar]

Can anyone explain why the environmentally sensitive westerners, with their drive to use as much of the whale as they possibly could, turned away from whales as a resource and started making pets out of them?

There's two reasons.

1) Petroleum was a better resource for energy needs, which dropped the bottom out of the whaling industry, and,

2) Whales were getting hard to find.

Once again, economics came into play. There's absolutely no reason to believe that Eskimos are any different from the rest of us.

 

[Barbbtx]

One doesn't have to be an animal rights advocate to believe that the fur industry is an abomination. I'm no Ingrid Newkirk (my cats work for me, dammit), but the fur industry at this point in time serves no worthwhile purpose. I hope we will someday develop a conscience about animals in the U.S.

I grew up on a cattle farm. The thing about cattle is that EVERY SINGLE PART of that animal is used for something....food, dogfood, leather, other products. But fur animals are killed, skinned, and left to rot, not to mention confined in stinking tiny cages their entire lives. It's a sickening industry.

Many people confuse animal rights, with animal welfare. You apparantly are more of an animal welfare advocate.

 

[Catz Part Deux]

Many people confuse animal rights, with animal welfare. You apparantly are more of an animal welfare advocate.

Absolutely. Animals are not our equals, which is why we have a responsibility to care for them in humane ways, even if we plan to eat them at some point.

 

[b.larset]

Boys, Skin em if ya Got em! Go on lets git er dun now!

 

[ludahai]

What about the traditional hunting practices of the American people in the United States? Something wrong with those people, they can't be shown the same special considerations as others?

I was just citing the Inuit as an example... and there ARE Inuit in the United States...