I love leather and I love fur and I don’t mind arguing about it.
“Do you think it’s okay to slaughter animals for their skin?” I eat them too AUGH AUGH AUGH AUGH
“doctor I’m wearing a leather jacket and eating a hamburger please you have to take me away I’m a danger to society”
don’t go in there
Venison and buckskin.
And mink and coyote and fox!
Listen, fellas.
The problem isn’t fur, the problem is factory farming. That’s always the problem. Buying fur and bones and shells from Indigenous folks who know how to get them correctly and respectfully is the best practise.
But you know what kind of winter coat eventually decomposes and doesn’t cause pollution and doesn’t contain microplastics? FUR. You know what kind of fabric stays warm even when wet? WOOL. You know what kinds of shoes last forever? LEATHER ONES.
Plastic is bad for the environment. Are you going to kill a thousand animals or one? Those are your choices at this point, there is no zero. You have to square with the idea that you cannot get the blood off your hands, and you shouldn’t feel you have to. We all depend on one another, and it’s possible to want an animal to have the best life it can before you kill it for food and whatever else. Domesticity is a good deal for most animals when it’s done properly–they get protection from predators, free food, and medical care that they wouldn’t get in the wild, and a longer life and a painless death.
Pleather is plastic. Faux fur is plastic. Vegan leather is plastic. It’s all plastic and it all releases microplastics into the water supply every time you wash it. It is not ‘cruelty free’ that is a lie advertising is selling you. You have got to stop thinking with your disgust reaction.
