killing animals for art Options

[ghjgfkgfk]

http://www.wetterlinggallery.com/archive/n...thalia_main.htm
http://www.wetterlinggallery.com/newsletter/newsletter.htm

do you think it's okay to kill animals for art?

i do not support it, but it's not different than what society already does. people kill animals for fashion. shoes, belts, coats, ect. people kill animals for meat. these things are 'okay'. not only okay, but something people want. people hunt for sport then go stuffing the bodies and heads of animals to hang them on a wall.

we don't need meat to live. we don't have to wear real fur, you could wear faux fur...none of them are necessary. you could live without meat. art isn't necessary to live. however, she could of used a different way to get her point across, such as painting,

if she killed any animal but 'cute fluffy things' would anyone even care? if she used spiders, ants, roaches, i doubt anyone would think there was even an issue.

[mysticbreeze]

Would you rather that no one buys any leather shoes? That would be a waste of that animal. A pointless death. At least if the animal dies and its body serves a useful purpose in death, I don't see what's wrong with that.

Though I am against killing animals in general, I agree that leather is not AS bad (though I am still totally against it) if the animal was killed for food (I am a vegetarian so I am against this as well), but many animal materials (i.e. fur, shearling, Indian leather, etc.) are not always collected because the animal was going to be killed for food anyway. For example: here

Get it straight.