Is wearing fur immoral?
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ANSWERS: 22
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Maybe or maybe not immoral, but it can certainly be quite dangerous!!
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Yes. It looks much better on the original owner.
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I don't think that it's immoral. That how people stayed warm back in the day. it's no more immoral to kill an animal for food. But to each his own. I don't own any fur, but if my hubby bought me a fur coat, I would wear it.
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I choose not to support the fur industry however I do wear sheepskin. Mmmmm, soft! Fur itself is not immoral, we have worn it as a necessity waaay back in the day. I don't agree with most of the current practices to produce them, especially as there are many alternatives.
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No moreso than wearing leather.
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I'm totally against people killing animals strictly so that they can make some designer fur coat our of them (JLO's brand for example!). I am, however, a major animal activist. It's the same thing as dog fights.. do you think those are immoral? It's absolutely horrendous in my opinion. Watch one video of those baby seals getting slammed in the head with a club and I guarantee you'd see things in the same light as me.
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Immoral, no. Necessary for most people? No. People will use leather so why not fur or hair coats. In the far north, nothing keep the cold out and the frost buildup around the face like certain kinds of fur. It just works the best. Those are their needs. I live in New York. It's cold at times, -30 some evening around here. When I have to go out, I don't need the fur ruff around my face, I can do with down coat and a knit hood and scarf. Those are my needs. Neither of us are immoral. From where do we get our morals? Did these 'don't use animals for any purpose' morals come from our ancestors who couldn't survive without those animals? I don't think there is one race, one tribe, one nationality, that didn't survive because of their use of animals, for work and/or food in some way. Choose one, either because this is how we evolved or how we were created, it doesn't matter. Now all of a sudden it is wrong to say we can't use them for everyone. I am just curious where those morals came from.
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No, if fur is immoral then eating meat is immoral, and nobody is going to convince me of that. As long as you truly need the warmth, just like it's ok to kill an animal for food, I feel that it's ok to use it's fur for warmth. Heck, I'm pretty sure the first fur coats were made by God. Can't get much more moral than that....
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I myself consider it immoral, but its kinda hard to get away from because there is probably something that u r wearing right now that came from an animal.
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not if you are an animal!
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Not necessarily, I think it's the reasoning and attitude of an individual that determines it's morality.
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I like the way it look and it keeps me warm. I love fur and see nothing wrong in wearing it. It's also my freedom to wear what I want. I may not like what someone wear or what someone says but it's their right and its nothing I can do about it.
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only if the animal has died of unnatural causes, so yes. Most animals used for fur (eg. Wolves, Foxes, wildcats etc.) are either gunned down, poisoned, trapped, or chased by vehicle to exhaustion just so over-rated celebrities can look even tackier (eg. Sarah Jessica Parker). Faux fur is just as useful as real fur.
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Yes, it's sick. x I don't wear it but at least (though I'm a veggie) leather is from meat animals. A fur coat, Why not? Every skunk, cow dog & bitch has one!!! x
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no its just an animal animals kill humans to so why cant we kill animals and wear there fur.
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No if anything wearing fur is a good thing I love to wear fur it's very warm and I like the way it looks the only fur product I own is a jacket with timber wolf fur on the hood but timber wolf fur is very rare because hunting wolves is illegal in the USA but timber wolf fur looks awsome on a jacket.
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Yes, that's a no brainer.
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Not at all! Fur, as a natural product, is better for the environment than faux fur which is a petro-chemical product. The incessant propaganda of the "animal-rights" movement has permeated so far into the mainstream that this is a perception among some people thanks to some misguided celebrity advocates of groups like PETA and HSUS. The true immorality is the overarching goal of the "animal-rights" movement, which is more like a cult on a mission. If realized, the end result of their vision would mean hardship and death for millions of human beings, the extinction of many species of animals, and the end of what we call "civilization".
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It damn well is! The Number of Animals Used to Make ONE Average Length Fur Coat: 125 Ermine 100 Chinchillas 70 Sables 50 Minks (female) 30 Minks (male) 30 Canadian Fishers 30 Muskrats 30 Opossums 30 Rabbits 27 Raccoons 17 Badgers 14 Otters 11 Silver Fox 11 Lynx 9 Beaver Go on, check out this page, READ EVERY WORD OF IT. http://www.lcanimal.org/cmpgn/cmpgn_002.htm
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I think wearing fur for fashion or killing an animal just for it's fur is definitely immoral. The death these animals suffer are horrendous. Not to mention "farming" (for lack of a better word) these animals just for their fur. In China, millions of dogs and cats are bred and killed just for their fur. All animals have the right to wear their. own skin, that is why they were born with it, not us. There are so many things we can use to keep warm, why must we kill innocence in order to do it in a so called fashionable way. Some animals hearts are still beating 5 to 10 seconds after they are skinned. Millions of cats and dogs, some still wearing collars, are transported without food, shelter, or water, shoved into tiny metal crates and stacked on trucks-as many as 8000 animals to a truck. When they arrive for slaughter, workers toss the crates of crying, terrified and dying animals to the ground, a drop from as high as 10 feet causing animals limbs to shatter as they crash to the ground. All this before they are finally and unmercifully killed and skinned.
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Probably depends on your morals.
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It is wrong for the reason that animals are solely skinned in the name of vanity. Nobody eats minks/raccoons/foxes. When it comes to leather, at least we eat the cow and use the leather. The cow provides us with food, the mink does not. Another problem is that animals killed for their coats are often not humanely killed. They can't shoot it in the head or slit its throat as it will ruin the appearance of the fur. So they often get clubbed or electrocuted. And another thing is that China (where there are no animal welfare laws) is responsible for most of the fur globally as it is very cheap to produce there (cheap labor as well). So no, it is not moral because these animals are often not humanely killed. Watch this video and see if you agree: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueBWi8BL0PQ
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