Wearing fur?

[MooCowSteph]

OutinChgoburbs:

I don’t want to think about what I could do with all the chicken feathers that never make their way here.

Believe it or not, chicken feathers supposedly make great filters and are used in cigarettes and air filters.

 

[MooCowSteph]

CatholicSam:

MooCowSteph, but have you considered the moral implications of wearing an animal as your screen name?

Do you think PETA is going to come after me? Maybe it hurts the cows’ self esteem?

 

[koda]

OutinChgoburbs:

While there is animal cruelty, MY OPINION HERE I think a lot of what you state is propaganda brought about by such organizations as PETA. The air in the US is actually better than it has been in over 75 years, based on government and private invesitgation.

As for destroying habitats- Some “green” laws are so destructive to human beings that they take the value of rodents over a person’s right to till their soil! Land is stolen from people under the guise of “keeping the wet lands” or “making the animals a habitat”.

I will not make my usual statement in this instance (PETA and the group People for Eating Tasty Animals), but I will state that the Catechism clearly states how we are to treat the earth and animals: Not with the consideration due humans, not with cruelty and mallice, but with a balance in our actions.

For the record- I don’t object to the wearing of fur, but I hate the upkeep. I like the fabrics at Lands End.

For the record, I’m not a PETA member. The reason air pollution is down is because we did have decent laws (but they have now been cut back - might cut too far into corps profits). Generally, we are very short sighted. This is the only planet we have and when we have made it uninhabitable we’ll just be stuck. Destroying habitats and driving animals to extinction is not being a good steward. God put us all here for a reason - it is not a good idea to decide we can do without a few species here and there - we destroy God’s balance. BTW-propaganda works both ways. Why don’t you try to find some info from a moderate source - you might be surprised.

But this is way off topic and I apologize to the OP for the digression.