Fur Coat Hypocrites Found Out

cactus flower wrote:The LA Times has reported that PETA members have been found to be higher than average consumers of leather goods (Gucci bags) and only average in terms of vegetarianism. Isn't it time they got real and packed up their sad campaign.
I have just bought my niece a nice little wolfskin jacket and will be proud to bee seen along side her in my racoon hat.
Won't you all admit you think the anti-fur campaign is pure hyposcrisy?

Kate P wrote:

cactus flower wrote:The LA Times has reported that PETA members have been found to be higher than average consumers of leather goods (Gucci bags) and only average in terms of vegetarianism. Isn't it time they got real and packed up their sad campaign.
I have just bought my niece a nice little wolfskin jacket and will be proud to bee seen along side her in my racoon hat.
Won't you all admit you think the anti-fur campaign is pure hyposcrisy?

Cactus I am so surprised at you.

I've been anti fur forever. The idea that you'd wear a wolfskin jacket repulses me.

It's hardly a sad campaign when you've seen the images of peeled foxes - and wolves.

Seriously.

Have you no conscience?

cactus flower wrote:The LA Times has reported that PETA members have been found to be higher than average consumers of leather goods (Gucci bags) and only average in terms of vegetarianism. Isn't it time they got real and packed up their sad campaign.
I have just bought my niece a nice little wolfskin jacket and will be proud to bee seen along side her in my racoon hat.
Won't you all admit you think the anti-fur campaign is pure hyposcrisy?

Kate P wrote:Ha!
I don't wear leather.

That is not what I hear, Kate.

ibis wrote:

cactus flower wrote:The LA Times has reported that PETA members have been found to be higher than average consumers of leather goods (Gucci bags) and only average in terms of vegetarianism. Isn't it time they got real and packed up their sad campaign.
I have just bought my niece a nice little wolfskin jacket and will be proud to bee seen along side her in my racoon hat.
Won't you all admit you think the anti-fur campaign is pure hyposcrisy?

No, I don't. A large proportion of furs still come from trapped animals. Wearing them is an appalling act, and one I have no respect for whatsoever.

PETA are loonies, but leather use and vegetarianism are completely irrelevant to the question of wearing furs. Don't kid yourself.

Kate P wrote:Avoid the issue, why don't you?

Picture it: Mounds of peeled foxes and mink and other animals lumped together like something from a burial pit.

It's vile and senseless and horrific and makes me despair of mankind.

(and most recreational leather, just so you know - is artificial)

You are moving the goalposts, Ibis. It is still perfectly possible to hunt for fur, even in Ireland. My first fur stole was made from mink skins cured by our local taxidermist. I got them by burying a length of waven pipe next to the river and baiting it with trout fillets. A quick bang on the head with a golf club and thats it. They are horrid agressive little things that eat all the native indigenous wildlife and have got it coming to them. I think Kate should get over all this girly nonsense and get into the furs that she so richly deserves.

cactus flower wrote:

ibis wrote:

cactus flower wrote:The LA Times has reported that PETA members have been found to be higher than average consumers of leather goods (Gucci bags) and only average in terms of vegetarianism. Isn't it time they got real and packed up their sad campaign.
I have just bought my niece a nice little wolfskin jacket and will be proud to bee seen along side her in my racoon hat.
Won't you all admit you think the anti-fur campaign is pure hyposcrisy?

No, I don't. A large proportion of furs still come from trapped animals. Wearing them is an appalling act, and one I have no respect for whatsoever.

PETA are loonies, but leather use and vegetarianism are completely irrelevant to the question of wearing furs. Don't kid yourself.

You are moving the goalposts, Ibis. It is still perfectly possible to hunt for fur, even in Ireland. My first fur stole was made from mink skins cured by our local taxidermist. I got them by burying a length of waven pipe next to the river and baiting it with trout fillets. A quick bang on the head with a golf club and thats it. They are horrid agressive little things that eat all the native indigenous wildlife and have got it coming to them. I think Kate should get over all this girly nonsense and get into the furs that she so richly deserves.

Do you know where your furs come from?

Kate P wrote:

Do you know where your furs come from?

You've read her posts, ibis. Do you seriously think she cares for one minute about the fact that fur farming has introduced an animal to our shores that has no natural predator and is wreaking havoc with the food chain.

Not a hope.

cactus flower wrote:Now you are talking Ibis: a cat hunt would make a lot more sense than our local fox hunts.

Kate P wrote:We must do that again sometime Cactus.

Most enjoyable.

I have to work now - so you can tell him.