Modern Fur Trade Options

[mai_z]

Last class in International Business, we discussed modern fur trade, and it's late popularity. Modern fur trapping is quite different from how it was hundreds of years ago, however there are many alternatives to fur nowadays. It's been argued that we no longer need fur, and "the only one who needs a mink coat...is the mink"

I know this is similar to the "killing animals for art" topic, but do you think that modern fur trade should be legal, and if so, how closely should it be regulated?


**sorry if this is a duplicate topic, fur is shorter than 4 letters**


Coalition to Abolish the fur trade: http://www.caft.org.uk/quotes/speaking-out.html

[sadolakced acid]

conservation of energy.

you've already fed the cows for meat, why not use the skin for leather.

also, animals like minks are destined for dissection tables already. yet again, why not use the skin for fur?

even animals which are not killed to be eaten, for instance a trophy deer, provides a dead carcass nessicary for keeping the decomposers of the ecosystem fed, and thus balancing the ecosystem.

the immediate cleanup of dead roadkill is responsible for the decline of the california condor.

as far as morality goes: is it better to raise animals for fur or to ignore them and simply slaughter them as we destroy thier habitat?