Do you buy merchandise from businesses that sell animal fur?

Question

ok ,heres the thing...

Marshals Sells Fur. I am opposed to skinning an animal for their fur. - unless it's a by-product of a food source- (iow -use it all or leave it alone)- did you know that deer bones are hollow and you can make jewelry and stuff with them. I wonder what windchimes would sound like?...

aaanyway... but just to kill something for its Value (you know kind of like what Bush is doing in the MiddleEast) is disgusting to me,

But yet.. I buy Leather.... from Marshals. I suck.

(O& Durga-if you see this--i don't do the fundraiser boxtops,either..*hides head ashamedly* )

~laurie <oxymoron, emphases on MORON.

Answer 1

No i don&#039;t buy things with real fur

Answer 2

yes you suck and you should&#039;nt buy fur i have never bought fur

Answer 3

no way!

Answer 4

When I am buying things, I dont routinely do a &quot;fur Check&quot; around the store to see if they carry any animal products.

And if they did, I would probably buy there anyway, but not the fur pieces

Answer 5

No.

Like you I object to creatures being killed just

to cater to human vanity.

Answer 6

box tops, I much prefer my own box.

G&#039;Morning sweetness!

Answer 7

yeah i just dont buy the fur that they sell?

Answer 8

I probably do.  Honestly, I don&#039;t agree with killing animals for fur, and I would never wear real fur, but I never really think about the leather part.  I guess I&#039;m a hypocrite, too.  I shop for clothes at Kohl&#039;s and I&#039;ve been to Marshals many times.  I would think that some sort of leather product is sold at just about any store that&#039;s reasonably priced.  And since I&#039;m not made of money, Laurie... I gotsta provide for my family somehow.  If that makes me a hypocrite, then so-be-it.

Answer 9

NO

Answer 10

I didn&#039;t know Bush was killing Middle Eastern people and skinning them for their fur. Where did you hear this? He must be an avid hunter to go all the way to the middle east to hunt, kill, and skin Iraqis for their fur. Before you can blame Bush for the war in the Middle East, you need to stop driving your car altogether. American citizens are responsible for the mess in the Middle East. If everyone only used their cars as much as absolutely necessary, and stopped driving like damned fools and slowed down a little bit, the whole mess with the US needing so much oil would be a LOT less of a mess. It&#039;s not just the government&#039;s fault. It&#039;s the fault of every American citizen who couldn&#039;t care less about anything except what they want right now.

Answer 11

Absolutely, and I personally own fur lined gloves and down filled jackets.  Also leather shoes, gloves and jackets.  I also eat meat.  Fur and down are natural products that can and are produced in a sustainable manner.  They are also the best insulators know to man.  Synthetics simply cannot match their effectiveness.

Answer 12

I do but only because I am afraid of animals and they like to hurt me and bite me. So I buy their fur knowing they were killed and maybe the animals will fear me and leave me alone then.

Answer 13

Fur is the most environmentally friendly winter coat you can buy. Synthetic insulation in clothing is made from petroleum. That means drilling for oil, diverting oil from the energy supply and it is not biodegradable. When your fur coat is worn out it will decompose naturally. You can throw it in your compost pile and add it to your garden soil. Try that with a fleece or gore tex jacket. Fur bearing animals are a renewable resource. Oil for making your plastic clothing isn&#039;t. Just in case you didn&#039;t realize it, nylon and polyester are plastics. Fur is not as evil as you think.

Answer 14

I grew up on a farm and poor ... Animals for food and other purposes doesn&#039;t bother me. I&#039;ve had fur coats and I&#039;ve eaten the animals I raised. I&#039;m past caring what the business I buy does .. Unless its putting arsenic in my food or on my clothes I don&#039;t care

Answer 15

First, I very rarely shop at shopping malls anymore.  I simply refue to pay their over-inflated prices for items.  I can go years without setting for in a mall.

I will but from stores that sell fur...but it entirely depends on WHAT type of fur.  I remember being a very small child, and being in Nordstroms, or The Bon Marche, and walking among the fur coats (kids love to do that).  They had some really exotic furs at that time, like seal-skin, and snow leopard.

I wouldn&#039;t in a million years buy a thing from a store that sold endangered wild furs anymore.  However ranch raised mink or fox, I don&#039;t really have a problem with.

It doesn&#039;t mean I would ever buy, own, or wear one, but I do no have a problem with the ranch raised fur industry.  It is simply ONE way of making a living.  I just choose not to suport it....just as I choose not to support the alcochol industry (I don&#039;t drink).  I don&#039;t vote against bars, taverns, and alcochol maufactures either....but I do not support them with my business.  

Ranch raised fur does NOT mean they are waisting the carcass of the animal either.  Sometimes these go back to feed the other critters they are raising.  More often they are turned into fertilizer, and pet food.

By the way, deer bones are NOT hollow.  They are filled with marrow...same as yours are, or any other mamal.  The bones contain marrow...that is where new blood cells are manufactured by the body.  You can clean out the marrow, and then the bones are hollow....same as yours would be.

The only animals with true hollow bones are birds (and then only some of their bones).

Most people who are very &quot;anti-fur&quot; are quiet young.  They honestly do not realize how their getting new laws passed can have a serrious &quot;trickle down&quot; effect.

They outlawed the hunting of cougars with dogs (the dogs chase and tree the cats, and bay at them until the hunter arrives) in WA, OR, and CA.

About 4-5 years after this law went into effect the attacks of cougars on humans SKYROCKETED.  In a few areas there were more problem cats being hunted and killed than would have been taken by the hunters with hounds.

Why did this happen?  Because an entire generation of cougars were no longer afraid of dogs, and were being hunted less by humans.  So less fear of humans, zero fear of dogs, and a population growth in the cougars.

It all brought about more attacks on humans.  Cougars also learned to actively hunt pet dogs, since they were such an easy target.  

There will be a &quot;trickle down&quot; effect if they close all the fur ranches.  Most likely it will be in the form of loosing more of our personal freedoms (and not just ones about being able to wear fur).

If you don&#039;t like the industry, don&#039;t surrport it.  If they don&#039;t have enough customers, they will close down.  Don&#039;t get another law passed that will have effects we are unsure of.  We have enough laws, rules and regulations.  I&#039;m an adult.  I can make my own choices....I don&#039;t need other people to make them for me.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 16

If we stick closely to your premise, are you gonna eat the internal digestive parts or s*x organs of a cow or hog or deer? I know there are such things as chitterlings but my bet is that you dont eat them or fried pig skins or lips, ears and tails. In most products there are things not used, its only a matter of where you draw your line. What do you use chicken feet and chicken toe nails for, or cattle/hog toes and nails?  I dont get your comparison to what Bush is doing in the mid east as making sense either. All of congress has control of  the war funds here and the president legally has no control to conduct a war for more than 3 months without the continued support of congress. I think you should go back and relearn your high school government classes again. Your logic is lacking. How about raising an animal for its fur, like mink, and then not wasting the rest of the animal? Like using the body for dog/cat food? Do you think the mink farmers just throw the body away? Nope! What about eating chicken? Do you do that? Do you eat the whole bird, feathers, beak, head, feet, and all? All are used, by the way, the processer sells these to makers of other projects. Ill bet you dont know much about the processing of many things as well as being unknowledgeable about government also.

Answer 17

I disagree. I love to poach deer and just hack off their hooves, which I use to make stew. The rest I leave to rot, because blowflies and maggots need to eat too.

Answer 18

Isn&#039;t meat killed for it&#039;s value? I am seeing less people wearing exotic fur coats, but for animal hides such as leather from cattle is coming off the cow anyways, when the cow is turned into hamburger meat--It would seem better to use the whole cow, if you&#039;re going to eat him.

Answer 19

hum..... sometimes,, yeah ,,, i feel bad dough

Answer 20

YES You need more meds MORE MEDS....

Answer 21

Nope, I&#039;m a vegetarian here.