Re: OT: Now mink farms, will we never learn? ;-(

An you can eat what comes inside it, too. What's not to like?

Sure, but who needs mink (or any fur) in the first place.

I wonder what people would think if you walked around wearing a hat made of baby skin or with a string of dogs eyes as a necklace?

Same thing with fur, we have alternatives now.

Cheers, T i m

The way they are kept and killed to start with.

Cheers, T i m

So the animals are deprived of life altogether?

It is renewable resource. 1kg of plastic creates 6kg of CO2.

None that are kind to the environment.

The animals that wouldn't be here in the first place you mean? Yes, you don't miss what you have never had.

And by 'life' you mean a fraction of their natural lives and often very unnatural what they do have?

Cheers, T i m

Are you not glad you exist?

I'm not sure mink would be very tasty. Most carnivorous animals aren't, apart from any disease risks.

I'd sure farmed mink which have been raised in cages and fed industrial sludgefood would be neither tasty nor healthy.

Some nice grass-fed rabbit oh the other hand... I think when I was young parkas had rabbit-fur collars or perhaps that was only the expensive (or cheap?) ones.

Owain

Generally plastics which pollute the oceans, etc, when dispensed with.

Not the point.

The point isn't existence it's existence to then suffer during a predictably short life.

Further, the morality of taking (not just losing 'naturally') that life, *especially* when it's not necessary.

My stepdaughter died of cancer when she was 39. That was very very sad, but it wasn't 'wrong' as such. She was a victim (of cancer) but not of someone else's morality.

Had she been murdered she would have still died but the cause of her death would have been 'wrong'. SomeONE would have *taken*, without her consent, her life.

We have even stopped capital punishment of *known* criminals / murderers / terrorists in the UK, because taking a life is wrong and two wrongs don't make a right.

Cheers, T i m

I don't think mine did (standard wear for a scooter rider in those days <g>) as it might have been army surplus but I did fly a tiger tail from my aerial. Ok, it was a cloth freebie from the Esso petrol station and I wouldn't do the same now of course.

Cheers, T i m

All of them. They were known as "rabbit coats".

Mine didn't:

The ones you referred to as that might have been. No one I knew who had one, with or without any fur (or fake fur) trim ever referred to them as that.

Cheers, T i m

Ah, another attack on the White Working Class eh?