After tonight - would YOU wear fur?
 

Tonight a documentary called Kill It, Skin It, Wear, aired on Channel 4 which spoke about the fur industry. I know quite a few people on here saw it and was wondering if it had any effect on you?

Before seeing the show, I really never thought about it. I didn't have an opinion on the matter, I wouldn't care if I knew someone who wore fur. But after watching the show, I can now proudly stand by the slogan - I WOULD rather go naked than wear fur!

What that's just me - would YOU wear fur?

I never would have in the first place,its utterly vile.

I didnt watch the show tonight but i never would anyway

I would of never personally of ever worn fur in the first place... but its a shame you cant trace where it comes from because some of the sources seemed perfectly fine and there is no reason why someone shouldnt wear it. If I could source where it came from i wouldnt mind so much, such as the beaver thing... they are going to be killed anyway and we kill our vermin worse than they kill their vermin. Its just their vermin's fur its worth money.
To me wearing fur isnt a moral thing, as I sit on and wear leather which is killing animals for pleasure... its the killing that is horrible, especially the seals. I really didnt want to see that as all videos of seal killing has always been censored but it was there fully uncensored. Horrible. How do people do it? =/

I wouldnt have done before, killing animals for fashion is plain out wrong

I'd never wear it anyway.

I suppose I also have to take into account that my love for fashion and the fashion world and my involvement in the industry that has somewhat made me what I was before. I knew it was going on but a chose to turn a blind eye to it.

Never say never.

Never worn fur and never will.. Just buy fake but people with money want it and where there is a demand there is always a supply. The show only shown a small fraction of what goes on and china is very bad, dogs and cats skinned alive.. Clubbing of seals even if a mother trying to defend her young etc etc. Alot of video footage that needs to been seen.. Shock tactics means people will open there eyes to the REAL truth, not nanny tv truth.

I really can't see myself ever being put ina situation where I would accept fur on my skin.

China have a poor human rights record... Just think how they treat animals. What channel 4 should show next is animal testing... What i have seen is bad but is it right?..

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I have always been against fur, I think its disgusting when people wear it. especially celebrities as it makes it come across to people that its "cool" because that Celeb is wearing it. You area a very shallow person to wear fur. There's nothing fashionable about having dead animals on you, it looks ugly. The conditions are horrific that the animals are kept it and the way they skin them is disgusting. I can't believe people let animals go through all that suffering just so they can wear them.:bored::bored:

Oh, please tell me this is a joke. It takes a documentary for you to stop wearing the skin of murdered animals? I live in the US so of course I've not seen it but I would never wear fur; not before tonight and not after tonight. *sigh* It's too bad people aren't more concious about what they wear that it takes a documentary on Channel 4 to get them to think about it. What a sad state our world is in.

Edit: Never mind. Just read some of the other posts in the thread saying that they never would have worn fur to begin with. This has made me much more optimistic. Lol.

If you had read the OP fully u would've grasped that I haven't stopped wearing fur because I never wore it to begin with.

Yes, I got that, but you also said that before you saw the documentary, you didn't have an opinion on it.

I couldn't bring myself to watch it. I would get far to angry...Killing to wear fashion items is vile and depraved.....Nothing more to say as the actions of that industry and it's customers is pure evil....

I wouldn't wear fur in the first place not because of the ethics but I just wouldn't buy it. I think in the documentary the bit where it showed how the animals lived in cages all there lives and skinned whilst alive was utterly wrong and I'm not defending it. I belive that there should be some kind of 'free range' fur like it showed in the prohramme where the animals lived a free and healthy life but just ran into a trap and died, I wouldn't be against it if it was recognised and labeled as 'free range'.

didn't see the programme i could't have stomached it, but i would never wear fur anyway, its looks alot better on the animal than it ever could on a human xx

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This has gotta be one of the stupidest things I've ever read on here. So it would be ok for someone to look "pretty" (pretty ugly, shallow, dense that is...) in a fur coat as long as the animal got to run around for a bit before its' life was snatched away to satisfy some ugly d*ckhead's vanity?

You watched the programme then? You saw the beautiful white fox still moving its' head & blinking its' eyes at the camera whilst being skinned alive? And you still say it's ok for humans to use animals for their own selfish , stupid ends? Still think there are instances where the fur would still look better on some fat fukk with more money than sense than on the beautiful creature it belonged to?

Free range fur indeed. :mad:

I never watched the programme, but I've always had strong opinions on it. Every time I see someone wearing fur or a fur shop it angers me to my absolute limits.

It is a disgusting type of fashion and billions of people live perfectly fine without wearing a fur coat or scarf in their life.

I've also realised there are hot points for fur when on holiday. Duabi, Agious Nicholas (Crete) and New York (America) it makes me so mad every time I have to walk past fur shops.

I really like tooperfect so I wouldn't be quite so harsh but I do have to agree that taking an animal's fur to wear is pretty disgusting regardless of the life that animal led before.

Once an animal has died and the fur from the animal has been made into a coat, I don't see what is wrong with wearing it personally.

However. If this cruel and unecessary killing of animals for their fur was banned and it became illegal to continue that, I'd be very happy to wear fake fur for the forseeable future. I'd like it to happen, it should happen worldwide, but sadly it don't.

We are not in the dark ages now and the olden days whereby somebody had to kill animals in order to wear their fur to keep warm is over. It is 2008 and the shops are filled with fake fur, so on that note, it should be completely banned wordwide.