I am not squicked by rabbit fur. I am not sure why - I do object to farmed mink, say, for a variety of reasons - but rabbits to me are Not The Same Thing. I kept pet rabbits as a child, so it's not exactly a lack of sentimentality *g*, but I also knew them as familiar garden pests, like mice and rats and voles and so on.
(Whether I'd actually want it would depend largely on what it looked like!)
Interesting. I'm assuming the rabbits would have been farmed as well?
I had a pet rabbit too, but hmm... I think it would squick me a lot less if I'd caught the rabbits myself and was going to be wearing their fur to keep warm in a cabin in the remote woods or something. It's mostly the idea of fur farms, and fur as a fashion thing that drives business to said farms, that bother me.
Fur (in this country) is an absolute non-essential; leather is more complicated (one can get non-leather shoes, but they have their own environmental cost, etc etc). Maybe that's it too?
I am more squicked by fur than by leather, as well, although that thought process (& the veganism generally) led me to mostly stop wearing leather shoes. Although now I am rethinking that for reasons above; currently my solution is just not to buy any more leather or fake leather shoes until the existing ones fall apart altogether...
I absolutely hate the feel of fur. On a live animal it's lovely, but dead fur feels awful. Wrong and upsetting.
Yup, this (apart frpm the vegan bit). I don't wear a lot of leather apart from occasional shoes and belts, as I don't like the smell (actually I have one leather motorcycle jacket, which is bright orange so easier to forget it came from an animal), but it squicks me far less than fur. My mum has a pair of lovely boots with a tiny amount of rabbit-fur trim, and I can hardly bear to look at them.
Given I happily eat rabbit, and aim for nose to tail eating as far as possible, I'd actually feel weird about NOT being comfortable wearing the skin of the same...yes, fur farm meat doesn't necessarally go towards human consumption, but it almost certainly goes towards at least pet food, simply because it's uneconomic to pay to dispose of a biproduct if you can find a profitable use for it.
Reminds me that one of my old girlfriends actually had a wolf fur coat, bought for her by her wealthy parents. We looked an odd couple, I'm sure, what with me being in studenty duffel coat and doc martens.
At the time I was a vegetarian, though not a very conscientious one obviously!
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(Whether I'd actually want it would depend largely on what it looked like!)
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I had a pet rabbit too, but hmm... I think it would squick me a lot less if I'd caught the rabbits myself and was going to be wearing their fur to keep warm in a cabin in the remote woods or something. It's mostly the idea of fur farms, and fur as a fashion thing that drives business to said farms, that bother me.
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I am more squicked by fur than by leather, as well, although that thought process (& the veganism generally) led me to mostly stop wearing leather shoes. Although now I am rethinking that for reasons above; currently my solution is just not to buy any more leather or fake leather shoes until the existing ones fall apart altogether...
I absolutely hate the feel of fur. On a live animal it's lovely, but dead fur feels awful. Wrong and upsetting.
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At the time I was a vegetarian, though not a very conscientious one obviously!
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