BTW…I AM a hippie, but I’m not an extremist. I was raised on a farm and I eat meat. As such, I support small farmers, but do see the evils of the more commercial farms. I have seen firsthand just about every type of farm animal you could imagine being slaughtered, so I know what’s involved. As such, I know that every part of those animals that was able to be harvested, was. I don’t believe in only using an animal for non-sustenance reasons, nor do I approve of any type of sport hunting. I love my animals and I love the Earth, but I’m not naive enough to think that we can change our biology to something we’re not supposed to be.

Human beings were made to eat meat…sorry, but if we weren’t our bodies would not process it. Our bodies were NOT however made to process grains and we weren’t really made to process milk past infancy. Mother’s milk…not cows!

But I digress…

Basically, I’ll be wearing my grandmother’s coat with pride…probably while eating a nice, roast lamb…mmmm, tasty baby sheep.

People
Eat
Tasty
Animals

Someone could be buying those things off them and shipping them back to the U.S. or wherever to sell.

But, the difference between YOU wearing your grandma’s fur coat on the street, and giving it to these poor people in Africa is this: When YOU’RE wearing the coat, you’re perpetuating an industry. Ever seen an item you liked on someone & then bought one that was similar? I know I have. So you wear grandma’s coat, she sees it & goes & buys one similar. Only its new. So more animals have died, not less.

Instead, you give it to these herders. Okay, someone says “But they’re animal exploiters”… Again, sorry we’re not as extreme as you’d like us to be, but we’re not concerned with taking away the livelihood of people in Africa that are practically starving as it is. First let’s handle the bloated over-fed Americans who are perpetuating the corporate meat industry!

Why would anyone buy a fur in Finland? Its not that fucking cold in there now a days, and Finnish people dont like furs. And save for a year to buy a bloody fur? Are you out of your mind. Finland is one of the richest IT-technology countries in the world – so we dont have polar bears walking up on the streets.

So get your facts together and next time blame those russians for being into fur and etc.

Finnish people -> IT-people, Nokia, Wipro, ENZO, UPM-KYMMENE (enzo and upm are the worlds largets forest industry companies in the whole wide world.).

Russians -> Vodka?

No helper animals? Next thing you know, our friends at PETA will mount a campaign saying any kind of animal domestication is unethical, and start “liberating” pets and livestock.

I was under the impression they’ve been doing that for years.
Someone with better knowledge out there — help us out.

Those African shepherds might not have a livelihood, but hey, they’ll have their donated fur coats…

They aren’t doing the animals any favors. These animals will not thank them in the end. They will eat them. The ones that don’t eat them will likely stomp them to death. Animals respect the food chain and so should people.

That is not to say that animals shouldn’t be treated with respect (which of course they often aren’t), but people should not be bullied into changing their way of life. If they really wanted to help animals they would be trying to change animal cruetly laws in the cities and towns, not spending money on ads with people who can not stick to their convictions or have no idea what they are talking about. Not only that but they put the lives of animals before the lives of people. A bear isn’t going to put your life before his when he is hungry. He will eat you and feel no guilt, remorse or anything but full and maybe a little sleepy.

Oh and the whole helper pet thing makes me sick. I read an article on PETA that said that people don’t need helper animals. The example the writer gave was one of his own. He had been hurt in an accident and said he was out for 3 months. He said he had friends and family help him get by. His thinking (totally backwards)was that if he did three months without mobility, and his family and friends helped, he could see no reason for helper pets. That’s the kind of thinking I don’t understand. How can someone compair three months to a life time of disability? Having helper pets gives those people dignity and friendship, instead of making them a burden on their family and friends.

Sorry for the rant. I just hate PETA so much!