The Barbarian Practice of Killing Animals for Fur

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Ms. Harrison run into little Timmy- her neighbor, seven years old- one Saturday morning at the store wearing her brand new fur coat. Little Timmy, surprised by the size of the thing asked Ms. Harrison what that was. She said it was her very expensive coat that she bought the other day hoping that little Timmy was going to admire her good taste in fashion. When little Timmy asked what was that made from, she replied “fur” hoping that he was not going to be able to put the pieces together, but when little Timmy asked “Fur, from who? How was it taken off?” Ms. Harrison could do nothing else but turn away in shame and head home.

“A 1998 investigation by The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) exposed the international fur industry’s ugly secret: the widespread slaughter of companion animals- domestic dogs an cats- for the manufacture of clothing, accessories, and trinkets.” (www.infurmation.com/)

The world we live in today has become into something that worries people and societies from all around the world, but that unfortunately seems to be overwhelming and people cannot do anything about it. The main questions about the killing of animals for fur are: Who do we blame for this practice? How has it affected the world since its beginning? Can we make it stop? How? Different species of animals are being killed for their fur, and this is to satisfy the demand of a selected group of people from the community, not all of them. I will be discussing how much does this practice contrast with the Utilitarian principles and if the outcome of it is justified, and try to motivate the reader to get involved in the eradication or at least to raise a concern about this “slaughter” based on the results of this justification.

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...t only to the animals involved, but also to lots of people around the world who are stressed because of this. Killing animals for food is practically inevitable because humans need to eat, but killing them for fur is a luxury at expense of the animal’s lives. Whether the job should be eradicated or not is a complicated topic since it should- ought- to be eliminated since it is going to benefit more sentient beings around the world, but reality is that even though it has reduced over the last century- because of synthetic fur among other reasons- it is still taking place and it is still as barbarian as it was when it first started. There is still hope that one day this will stop, but for now the only thing we can do is get involved and show we care, and refuse to buy fur and try to expand this mentality among the people we know and the ones we meet during our lives.

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