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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Absolute and total bullshit. I explain to people who are squeamish about the leather sofa, leather upholstered car, leather shoes, leather purse and leather watchband, that that cow was going to die anyway.
That said, I knew a PETA radical in law school, and she wouldn't even consider wearing vintage fur or leather on her dead body. It is all cruelty in the rules book.
In fact some idiot wore a full length fur coat to law school one day (yeah, totally appropriate) and we had to physically restrain PETA person from lunging at her jugular.
Vintage. HA. Nice try.
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Agreed on the bullshit call. You either wear fur or you don't, it doesn't matter how "old" it is. I don't do fish/seafood, milk, eggs, meat or poultry and won't wear fur but I do own leather shoes and my car upholstry is leather. I think the fur thing has to do in part with (1) the animal being killed only for its hair as opposed to leather where we use the meat as well and (2) my mother told me never to wear plastic shoes. We all draw our lines. I have a strong dislike for over-the-top people who freak out and won't bathe or wear makeup because of animal parts "allegedly" in the products. I also do not like people who foist their views on others -- I feel a certain way about animals and their rights but I don't go bonkers on people who appear by their wardrobe or dinner plate not to agree with me. To each his own, none of my business, no skin off my ass, etc.
