Guest guest Posted November 4, 2004 Report Share Posted November 4, 2004 Dear Bunny and other wonderful AAPN activists: I must tell you that promoting fake fur HAS NOT worked in combatting the fur industry. What it has done has been 1) to perpetuate the notion that wearing animal skins is desirable, and 2) provide " cover " for real, cheap furs such as the dog and cat skins coming in to the US and Europe from China which are sometimes themselves labeled " fake " or " ersatz " with the justification that they are not what they pretend to be -- meaning, I guess, that they are pretending not to be domestic dog and cat fur. Certainly I would prefer people to wear fake fur over real fur, and for that reason I'm not " campaigning " against fake fur, but real animal people should never wear or encourage the use of fake fur unless it looks so unrealistic that no one could possibly mistake it for the real thing. I got in a big brouhaha here last year with a shopkeeper in a nearby town who had fur-trimmed coats for sale. I protested it, and then she informed (very stridently) that me they were fake (which they may or may not have been really) and went on to say that we should be promoting fake fur, whereupon I had to inform her of the above, which she said was totally unfounded and wrong, wrong, wrong. She said fake fur had caused the downfall of the fur industry, but it has not. In fact, when fake fur became popular with the fashion industry for cheap coats and cheap trim, suppliers of real cheap fur (such as the Chinese dog and cat meat industry) started offering their real stuff even cheaper than the fake stuff, and the fake stuff provided " cover " for the real stuff so that people could pretend (to themselves or others) that they weren't really wearing dead animals. It's just like the " legal " ivory providing cover for the poached ivory. Kim >RABBIT FUR IS NOT FUN. ITS CRUEL > >Please sign the petition at >http://www.petitiononline.com/bunaide4 > >.......Fur is entirely unnecessary. Synthetics look great, feel great, and are >cheaper to produce. Fur is currently being heavily marketed, which >drives up demand. The solution is to reduce demand. One of the most >effective ways to do that is to let people know about the suffering that >goes into every fur garment and to remind them that faux fur is a widely >available attractive substitute. > -- Kim Bartlett, Publisher of ANIMAL PEOPLE Newspaper Postal mailing address: P.O. Box 960, Clinton WA 98236 U.S.A. CORRECT EMAIL ADDRESS IS: <ANPEOPLE Website: http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/ with French and Spanish language subsections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 5, 2004 Report Share Posted November 5, 2004 Dear Kim , I fully endrose your views.One can not be sure about source of Fur,Fur is Fur ,whatever may be the source. Yes when we will boyctt the Animals' Fur in any form ,we will be towards achieve our Goal of Cruelty free World. Sandeep Kim Bartlett <anpeople wrote: Dear Bunny and other wonderful AAPN activists: I must tell you that promoting fake fur HAS NOT worked in combatting the fur industry. What it has done has been 1) to perpetuate the notion that wearing animal skins is desirable, and 2) provide " cover " for real, cheap furs such as the dog and cat skins coming in to the US and Europe from China which are sometimes themselves labeled " fake " or " ersatz " with the justification that they are not what they pretend to be -- meaning, I guess, that they are pretending not to be domestic dog and cat fur. Certainly I would prefer people to wear fake fur over real fur, and for that reason I'm not " campaigning " against fake fur, but real animal people should never wear or encourage the use of fake fur unless it looks so unrealistic that no one could possibly mistake it for the real thing. I got in a big brouhaha here last year with a shopkeeper in a nearby town who had fur-trimmed coats for sale. I protested it, and then she informed (very stridently) that me they were fake (which they may or may not have been really) and went on to say that we should be promoting fake fur, whereupon I had to inform her of the above, which she said was totally unfounded and wrong, wrong, wrong. She said fake fur had caused the downfall of the fur industry, but it has not. In fact, when fake fur became popular with the fashion industry for cheap coats and cheap trim, suppliers of real cheap fur (such as the Chinese dog and cat meat industry) started offering their real stuff even cheaper than the fake stuff, and the fake stuff provided " cover " for the real stuff so that people could pretend (to themselves or others) that they weren't really wearing dead animals. It's just like the " legal " ivory providing cover for the poached ivory. Kim >RABBIT FUR IS NOT FUN. ITS CRUEL > >Please sign the petition at >http://www.petitiononline.com/bunaide4 > >.......Fur is entirely unnecessary. Synthetics look great, feel great, and are >cheaper to produce. Fur is currently being heavily marketed, which >drives up demand. The solution is to reduce demand. One of the most >effective ways to do that is to let people know about the suffering that >goes into every fur garment and to remind them that faux fur is a widely >available attractive substitute. > -- Kim Bartlett, Publisher of ANIMAL PEOPLE Newspaper Postal mailing address: P.O. Box 960, Clinton WA 98236 U.S.A. CORRECT EMAIL ADDRESS IS: <ANPEOPLE Website: http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/ with French and Spanish language subsections. For more information on Asian animal issues, please use the search feature on the AAPN website: http://www.aapn.org/ or search the list archives at: aapn Please feel free to send any relevant news or comments to the list at aapn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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