Canada Goose jacket (real fur), wear or not wear??

[timfountain]

Originally Posted by pdxMIKEpdx

All your sarcasm aside, it IS a very touchy subject and people have strong opinions about it either way.

I wasn't being by sarcastic, but yes, I agree, there are some very touchy people with strong opinions around these parts.

[IlonaG]

Originally Posted by pdxMIKEpdx

It has coyote fur collar.
Coyotes are considered the lowest of the low by most rural Oregon residents.
In fact, Harney County is hosting their annual coyote shoot right now.
Coyotes even eat eat cats and small dogs in suburban areas.

"What's the saying, ah yes that's it.... "Only dumb animals wear fur coats".
No disrespect to you but robing your self in a dead animal is just wrong, IMHO."

As far as the above "opinion":

“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell

“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Insufferable Gaucho

In My humble Opinion (IMHO) animal activists of the above ilk are among the most hypocritical and uninformed people of the world.
All their arguments are based on misguided "feelings", not fact.

In fact "IMHO", they should closely examine their own lifestyles and beliefs before becoming a"Social Justice Warrior".

IMHO, if you are going to strongly voice opinions like this, you should have the deep down conviction that it's "all or nothing" for you, and you are as "clean and pure as the driven snow" before condemning other people.
Didn't Jesus have something to say about that kind of behavior?

And IMHO people who care about animals care because they object to causing unnecessary pain and suffering! All animals have the right to live their lives without humans killing them for clothes or sport. Where is the hypocrisy??

[pdxMIKEpdx]

What about killing animals for food?
Why would a deer, elk, salmon or goose have any more "rights" than a cow or a chicken?
If you are going to hunt a deer for food, is that considered sport or sustenance?
What difference does it make if you prefer venison over beef?
What if you made a buckskin jacket out of the deer hide after consuming the meat?

Or if one chooses the vegan and animal free lifestyle, what about the millions of acres of natural habitat that is destroyed and used for oil production (for synthetics (clothing) manufacturing) mining, or farming, or cotton, or roads, or housing developments, etc?
How about the astounding medical advances that came from testing drugs on animals?
Should we eliminate and close every zoo on the planet?

Would you get upset if someone had a strip of rat or mouse fur on their jacket that came from pests trapped in their basement, or lined their gloves or coats with the skins from rabbits and moles that are infesting and destroying their property?

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that every animal should be killed for clothes and whatnot, but to get excited over a small strip of coyote fur on a jacket is just plain silly especially when coyotes are considered a suburban and rural "pest" and places like Harney County have annual coyote shoots to eradicate them.

For all we know that coyote fur collar on that jacket came from road kill.

BTW, Look up anthropomorphism.