wearing faux fur (was FUR is still at JCrew (was: good news!)

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> If anything, we should be actively supporting the sale of fake fur, even buying it ourselves, to promote it as a viable and marketable replacement to killing animals.

 

This is an interesting suggestion. I can understand the economic reasoning behind this. But, would wonder whether wearing a faux fur (that looks like a real fur) would seem have a negative impact of promoting wearing fur. I was at Target recently and they had coats that were entirely faux fur as well as faux fur trim (removeable).

 

Is this wear that PETA patch comes in handy, "Fake for the Animal's Sake" ?

 

Tammy

 

 

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My perspective on this is that fake fur is no different than wearing fake leather shoes, sold at places like Moo Shoes or Otsu, or eating fake meat, or drinking creamy soy milk available in store bought cartons. The PETA patch would definitely help with activism efforts. You could say "hey look, a fake fur product that looks just as good, and is just as warm - it costs less, and no animals had to be murdered. Why are you still buying real fur?"On Dec 13, 2005, at 8:12 PM, Tammy, Bay Area Vegetarians wrote:  >  If anything, we should be actively supporting the sale of fake fur, even buying it ourselves, to promote it as a viable and marketable replacement to killing animals.    This is an interesting suggestion.  I can understand the economic reasoning behind this.  But, would wonder whether wearing a faux fur (that looks like a real fur) would seem have a negative impact of promoting wearing fur.  I was at Target recently and they had coats that were entirely faux fur as well as faux fur trim (removeable).   Is this wear that PETA patch comes in handy, "Fake for the Animal's Sake" ?   Tammy   California Vegans - http://www.frappr.com/vegans ____"This is my protest against the conduct of the world. To be a vegetarian is to disagree--to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars--we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement and I think it's a strong one." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer ____ BAY AREA VEGETARIANS (BAV) is a non-profit 501 ©(3) community organization for veggies to network, find support and promote veg*nism. Events Calendar - http://bayareaveg.org/events Newsletter - http://bayareaveg.org/news Veg Mentor Program - http://bayareaveg.org/mentor Ultimate Guide - http://bayareaveg.org/ug Veg Food Finder - http://www.bayareaveg.org/finder Charter & Post Guidelines - http://bayareaveg.org/charter Compassionate Living Program - http://www.bayareaveg.org/cl ____