When Vegans Attack

veganpunkpixie:

furfreela:

That’s a load of BS.  So Let me get this straight – according to the Fur Is Green Facebook group,  if you are a compassionate person who wants animals to be able to live out their lives in protected habitats and doesn’t want them to be bludgeoned, trapped, or drowned in the wild, or vaginally electrocuted, gassed, or to spend their entire lives in small cages, you are a “fanatic”. But if you rationalize those things under the guise of “supporting thousands of jobs”, while avoiding looking at or openly addressing the actual acts and images associated with fur production, and indulging in toxically peserved luxury products, you are an “environmentalist”? Therefore, according to the CFC, compassion and empathy is fanatical.

Producing a fur coat from ranch-raised animals takes more than 15 times as much energy as it does to produce a faux-fur coat! In addition, runoff waste from fur farms destroys waterways, and the toxic chemicals used (ammonia, chromates, bleaching agents, coal tar derivatives, hydrogen peroxide, formaldehyde, sulphides) to preserve the skins are also harming the environment. The fur industry has even lobbied governments in the Great Lakes area to maintain low water-quality standards—so that fur farms won’t be identified as major polluters. Wild trapping is no better,  indiscriminately catching whatever wanders into the trap – cats, dogs, endangered species – who are all thrown away after a miserable death.

You’re a taxidermist. You love real fur. Quit preaching your pro fur views. I see right through it…

naturepunk:

PETA has been praising faux fur for ages. What they don’t address is the simple fact that faux fur still supports real fur by sending the message that fur of any kind is acceptable in the fashion industry.

Likewise, they fail to address the fact that the production of faux fur has a larger negative environmental impact than the production of real fur.

Faux fur, made from acrylic (plastic) fibers, does not rot in a landfill, costs more to produce, and is created using more toxic chemicals than are used in tanning agents required for real fur. More info on the environmental aspect of furs can be found here: http://www.furisgreen.com/furisgreen.aspx

If you wear faux fur but sneer at anyone wearing a genuine mink coat, take a look in the mirror and consider the fact that you fashion choice still supports the industry AND has a larger negative impact on the environment. 

FAUX FUR does not promote this at all! faux fur if anything show you can wear something fashionable and no animals are harmed in the process! Its like saying eating “fake meat” is promoting eating real meat or buying “vegetarian leather shoes” is the same as buying real ones, YOU are helping by buying the alternative