FUR: QUESTION OF CONSCIENCE

Posted by webmasterneo @ 8:53 am, 11 October 2006.

Globally, 30 million mink and fox 5 million living in farms.

In Finland, the fox farms use 80 million pounds of corn. It is estimated that half of the herring fishery in the country used to these farms.

To produce a fox coat, it is a ton of protein foods.

To produce a mink coat, it takes 3 tons of food protein.

The making of a fur coat requires 400 squirrels, 200 chinchillas, 10 lynx, 15 foxes, coyotes, 8, 30 raccoons or more than 30 mink.


QUESTIONS / ANSWERS

A FARM IS A BUSINESS ORDINARY LAND

Breeders fur happy invoke this argument to justify their trade. However, there are big differences: Agriculture is generally intended to produce food. Fur-bearing animals are still wild animals, unlike the pig or ox, accustomed to humans for millennia.

The man always dressed in SKINS FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF HUMANITY

What was good for a time, is not necessarily for another. Expeditions in Antarctica or the Himalayas are not equipped with fur coats but with warmer materials and lighter synthetic fiber.

ALSO ON DOOR LEATHER

Leather is a byproduct of the meat industry. There will be leather as long as we eat meat. There are now a multitude of alternatives to replace this by-product of the slaughterhouse.

The fur is a natural product that does not degrade the ENVIRONMENT

The preliminary work of the skins are made from many chemicals. Farms pollute the environment. Make a comparison of energy developed for the manufacture of synthetic fur and work for the natural fur. We arrive at the following result: a fake fur coat employs the equivalent of the energy produced by burning 4.5 gallons of gasoline. Animals caught in the wild require energy equivalent to burning 15 gallons of gasoline. The ratio of energy required for making a coat shaped in the fur industry is equal to burning 300 liters of gasoline. So, a faux fur coat is less polluting and consuming less energy.

Storage of a fur coat in refrigerated vaults off-season uses 100,000 BTU, 80% of the total energy for the production of a synthetic coat.