Yesterday, I was doing my usual annual NYC walkabout shopping tour and as usual I went to Bergdorf's to shoot the windows, which are eclectically funny and creative. In front of Bergdorf's was this bunch: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38193998@N ... 322976979/
I don't have anything against not wearing fur other than you are impoverishing poor Appalacians redneck mink farmers and trappers and Jewish tailors down on 30th St or so. But hey whatever rocks your boat. But if you are going to protest animal skins wouldn't it behoove you to not be wearing the lastest in fasion leather boots.
Kinda puts the lie to the whole myth of the self-righteous Vegan. Really the requirement for this sort of thing has nothing to do with left or right, libertarian or fascist. It rather requires an emotionally disturbed person who can't quite figure out how to adapt to life's requirements properly. These folks hate pain, suffering and death so much that they think they can avoid being the cause of it, and this is just not how life works. Life requires death. We were supposed to learn this in kindergarden.
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
Leather doesn't come from cute faced baby faced furry critters, that's why they don't mind leather but do mind fur. Doesn't matter the animals all die the same way. I know the Europeans were dead set against the Newfoundlanders whacking seals on the head.
But even when we quit, and we quit fishing for the cod the seals eat as well, they let the Portuguese strip mine the cod stocks so that the seals slowly, slowly starved to death. They also massacred the livestock in Britain over a bogus hoof and mouth outbreak(great for commodities speculators), and never stopped eating foie gras, but those don't count in their playbook.
