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Is it morally okay to wear fur? Well, let's see: Do you wear leather shoes? A leather belt? I don't see many people running around in canvas sneakers, not even the vegetarians I know. Well, the vegans, yes, but don't they know that while they are being compulsive about mankind sure they don't kill an animal for any purpose they are causing a crisis in the vegetable world? All of those massacred ears of corn. All of those fields stripped of nutrients as they consume more rice, and those poor rice plants! Okay, okay, I'm getting carried away.

Is it morally wrong to wear fur? If it's morally wrong to use animal life for fur, than it's morally wrong to use ANY living thing to sustain yourself, plants included. Follow the "fur is immoral" logic to its full conclusion, and you will just have to sit on the sidewalk and starve.

I think I'm going to start a "Save the Fruits and Vegetables" campaign. No one cares about the carrots, the apples or the bananas anymore. People think up a million reasons that they will eat cheese but not meat, or they will eat chicken beef but not chicken, or they will eat any meat but they won't wear fur, or they won't wear fur but they also won't make sure none of their property contains any leather. Where is the logic in that? Where is the morality in when no one is decrying the plight of the peas?

Oh, you may say that vegetation is not as precious as animal life. But who are you to make that moral conclusion?

Now, let's look at fur again. A fur could come from a wild animal that lived a natural life in the wild before a hunter took it down. But that leather came from a poor cow who either trudged her way into the milking parlor until her milk production went down and she was culled from the herd. A fur could come from a farmer of mink whose livelihood depends on his proper care of the animals. Either way, you can't say that fur is immoral while consuming or using anything that is or once was composed of living cells.

So you go to synthetic everything, hoping to save all the plants and animals. I hate to tell you but every synthetic creation of man has a negative impact on the environment, meaning that its byproducts and waste will eventually be killing a plant, an animal or a human being.

Is fur immoral? Then anything that gives you food, shelter or clothing is immoral. Abstain from it all and you won't be with the rest of us long.

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