Skinning Animals for Fur - Why Not Humans?

Fur has been a social status, sign of power and money through the years so why not wear human skin? Wouldn't this be ultimate level of power. Could we put a price on the torture, killing and skinning of a human being the way society is able to put a price tag on innocent creatures?

Could you wear your dog or cat?

Could you wear someone's pet that has been stolen?

I can't imagine one human would think it would be acceptable to wear human skin as coat. I also doubt anyone would be alright with the idea of wearing their dog, cat, rabbit, whatever their family pet might be. Additionally we would not want to wear someone's pet either. It is almost impossible to know where furs come from now and the fact is that a good percentage of rabbit is in actuality dog and cat. Our favorite four legged friends are a huge market in China. Investigators have found as many of 8,000 cats and dogs crammed in cages on one truck load. They are caged, with open wounds, some dead. These animals when found had been on the road for days without food or water. The cages were stacked on top of each other and to unload, workers were simply throwing the cages to the ground, shattering bones of these animals caged together. Most still had collars on, stolen from their owners, terrified and close to death. All of them being pawned off as rabbit fur for trims of jackets, hats, boots, etc.

Fur farming is torture plain and simple. It is raising an innocent creature that feels to be killed. Maybe you don't know that a mink is a semi-aquatic animal. In the wild they spend the majority of their day swimming however they're kept in cages that are at the most 10 x 24. They are an active animal and being caged causes neurotic behavior. They have stomach ulcers from stress and bite their tails as self mutilation. These sweet animals never have the ability to swim and denying them water to cool off causes at least 10% to die from heat related disease. The mink is either gassed, poisoned or has it's neck broke. It has been proven they have been known to simply be poisoned with weed killer and their bodies convulse up to ten minutes before finally dying.

Fox farms are equally as horrible. These gorgeous animals live so cramped the farms have over 20% of foxes lost due to stress related cannibalism. Foxes are generally electrocuted for death. Chinchillas have their necks broke or are also electrocuted by hooking one clamp to their ear and one to their genitalia to fry their insides. It takes a minimum of 100 chinchilla to make one coat yet people think this is acceptable to wear.

There are no federal laws to protect millions of animals to be killed for fashion. Countries like France kill over 70 million rabbits a year. These playful sweet animals never have the chance to hop or dig in the grass so the buyer can wear a beautiful hat, yes, a beautiful hat because it was a beautiful animal. Angora rabbits don't have it any better. They are repeatedly shorn for wool by strapping them to a board while their bodies are kicking and moving causing bloody punctures to their skin over and over. These rabbits have very sensitive food pads so living on a wire cage causes them to have ulcerated feet. Males only have 80% the wool of females so they are generally killed at birth. Socially acceptable? I call this murder. What if we said male babies can't reproduce so lets kill them at birth? This would never be OK!

Perhaps you also don't know that one out of four animals that are trapped by metal claw traps escape by chewing their limb off due to their pain, only to die shortly after escape by loss of blood. Now they're dead and unused. Others die in the trap from lack of food, water or natural elements before the trapper even arrives. Additionally thousands of dogs, cats and deer are killed every year finding themselves in these traps.

Fur farmers only care about the preservation of the fur of the creature so these innocent sweet animals are killed in the most horrible ways to avoid harming the coat. How can people cherish their pets yet spend enormous amounts of money funding the torture of another animal that is equally as sweet and lovable. If society can put a price tag on animals, perhaps they should make it a requirement for the buyer to visibly see these animals, pet them, look in their eyes and watch them murdered? An animal's eyes tell a story of a lifetime. Take the time to look.