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Aswad -> RE: Petition: Label source of fur / ban use of fur from dogs and cats (4/10/2012 5:43:39 PM)
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ORIGINAL: hardcybermaster
Aswad, shame on you, you generally seem to be fairly sane, don't sugar coat murder with "organ harvesting" and "going to starve anyway" shit, that's piss poor apologistic nonsense and you know it
I said "if you want fur" ... which I don't.
I will hunt for food and wildlife management.
Just so we're clear, vegan is not an option for me. My intestines cannot tolerate the level of fiber, my endocrine system cannot tolerate soy, my medications exclude most fermented foods, and I need the fat and protein for my mental and physical health.
Store bought meat comes from animals raised, reared and killed under very poor conditions. By hunting, I can replace that meat with the meat and edible organs of animals that live free and full lives. I can also ensure that they die in the most humane way possible, by maintaining myself at the level of expert marksman and never taking a shot under less than ideal circumstances. As I subscribe to the idea that every death should be made to count, I will indeed use skin and other recoverable material, at the expense of the extra effort required to do so.
That's me.
If someone else wants to wear fur for its own sake, I suggest they hunt it, rather than buy it, as a means to ensure the least ethically problematic approach. For instance, this allows them to make sure the species are picked carefully, that they're not getting it off caged animals whose killing is an unknown and underregulated quantity, and that the deaths are made to count by making use of the rest of the animal (the fur industry does not generally use the carcass). In short, I mean to encourage damage reduction as a school of thought.
I do not endorse fur for its own sake.
Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Health,
al-Aswad.
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