Fur Real!
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Written by John Thompson II on October 16, 2009
Fall has finally set in, and its crisp kiss has touched everyone here in New York. These days are prefect for a light jacket or sweater and scarf combination whichever you prefer. Now that fall has made its presence known the promise of winter is right around the corner, and it brings with it the freezing cold of blizzard days and icy nights. In nature most animals are equipped with a fur coat to protect them from winters harsh, and crass brutality. We are not equipped with a fur coat all our own, so is wearing fur wrong? or is it the means by which the fur is obtained that makes it so morally wrong?
Fashion is all too familiar with fur and its stylish benefits. The multimillion dollar fashion house Fendi began as a furrier before adding leather goods, and “ready to wear” to its already impressing collection. One can walk the avenues of both Madison and 5th on any given winter day and lose count of the various fur coats that are worn by both men and women. As with anything that fashion touches, its natural purpose is augmented to an extreme beyond its original intent.
From coats to fur trimmed wraps to hats and gloves fur is as very much apart of our culture as home made apple pie. While may will go as far as to say that wearing fur serves no purpose beyond warmth I ask the question “well isn’t that what it’s supposed to do?” Yes I understand the cruelty by which it is acquired, the maiming, electrolysis and the drowning; but if the fur were obtained by a more humane method would it then be acceptable to wear?
I am on the fence with this one and not completely swayed by either side. I understand both views, but I am not persuaded by either. At the end of the day if the means were governed so that the acquisition of fur was humane by whatever means death could be, would it then be morally acceptable to wear fur?
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Tags: Fur, fur coat, Men's Fashion, PETA, sex in the city, Style, Winter, women's fashion
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Comments (2)
brandonjg
October 17th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Are you serious? Anyone eat McDonald’s hamburgers or hotdogs or steak or any food consisting of ANIMALS. If so, that’s your choice, and it’s none of anyone’s business if someone else chooses to wear fur. Let’s stop the hypocrisy.
I can only wish that some animal rights activist would throw blood on me while I was hunting or eating my deer steaks or moose steaks or duck or turkey, etc. Believe me, there would be a lot more blood flying around and it wouldn’t be mine.
Jorrahn
November 1st, 2009 at 1:05 am
There is more of a hypocrisy just beneath the surface. The fact that they are wearing any clothing at all should be immoral in their eyes. Think about it… Cotton is made from harming plants, but beyond that there had to have been forests cleared, and animals driven off to start a cotton field. That and killing the insects…. on top of that, anything artificial like nylon, rayon, etc was made through a chemical process, where the chemicals were created in a factory that strip mined the environment in one way or another… or at the very least polluted the air while doing it. Wool, see harming animals…. so where does this leave us. It should be the only "moral" point of view is to go naked, or at least weave your own hair into clothing… Personally, I am for the belief that if they do the blood/paint throwing in the dead of winter, they forfeit their clothing
. For several millennium, no one gave a crap about all of this, now all of a sudden i think they should be reminded WHY humans wear clothing…
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