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Kurska

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6. Fur industries are more damaging to the environment.

Reply to Recursion (Reply #4)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 12:18 AM

Jul 2015

They produce a ton of toxic run off that destroys water sources.

I do strongly believe we have an obligation to be good stewards for our planet. Trapping animals in mental snares and throwing them into tiny steel wired cages and then pumping their toxic shit into our rivers definitely doesn't jive with that.

http://www.infurmation.com/index.php/issues/fur-environment

Fur farming is terrible for the environment, it even uses 3 time more energy to produce a real fur coat than a faux fur coat.

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Do you think less of people for wearing real fur? [View all] Kurska Jul 2015 OP

I've my mom's 50 yr old fur coat that I wear mid-winter. It has saved me from having to buy a petro uppityperson Jul 2015 #1

Thats fair enough, I don't judge you for that. Kurska Jul 2015 #3

I made my own petrochemical fur coat at the height of the fur coat craze in the 80s Warpy Jul 2015 #7

I think of them as encouraging animal abuse. BlueJazz Jul 2015 #2

If the alternative is wearing petroleum-based synthetics... Recursion Jul 2015 #4

Fur industries are more damaging to the environment. Kurska Jul 2015 #6

The only people I know who wear fur in an urban context with first-world lifestyles MADem Jul 2015 #5

I love fur waddirum Jul 2015 #8

I don't really have a problem with leather... Spider Jerusalem Jul 2015 #9

I'm okay with fur, with caveats. Blue_In_AK Jul 2015 #10

I think they are really, really ugly Skittles Jul 2015 #11

I think it's just plain tacky to wear one LuvNewcastle Jul 2015 #12

I admit I tend to look down on real fur for wearing people pinboy3niner Jul 2015 #13

How can you tell what's real? I'd be afraid even to buy a fake one, for fear pnwmom Jul 2015 #14

Rabbit lined hats and gloves JustAnotherGen Jul 2015 #15

I think fur is ugly bigwillq Jul 2015 #16

I hate real fur, but I also realize what a hypocrite I am since Vinca Jul 2015 #17

It seems like I've read that animals are skinned alive in the fur industry. gollygee Jul 2015 #18