“I hate mink farms and never wear fur. Eat meat, which is good use of animals.”
Won’t wear fur? How “politically correct” of you for someone who’s tag says how you hate PC, lol. That same fur that kept all of our ancestors alive and warm in winter throughout history.
As to mink farms, years ago, when I was much younger, I used to cross country ski right out the front door of my town home in IL during winter, and head along the side of a cornfield right next to where I lived, and onto a golf course nearby.
Golf courses in winter are beautiful places to cross country ski. No one around, usually some parts are mildly hilly, it’s so peacefully quiet, and you glide past frozen ponds, a landscape dotted with white-coated greenery and a variety of trees and bushes, their boughs laden with snow.
I absolutely loved being out there. Part of the golf course backed up on a rural wooded area, and I would glide through a broken part of the wire fence separating the course from the woods and then ski some more in this more “wild” area of nature beyond the fence.
One day I came across a “mink farm” tucked back in the woods. Hundreds of cages chock full of minks, their coats bushy for warmth against old man winter’s chill. Beautiful coats. I could see why their pelts were so valuable to humans, not only for warmth, but for the beauty of the fur. My guess is that old mink farm is long gone, but what a find it was as I went skiing one day.
I would go back often to admire the little critters, knowing that their fate one day would be to enhance a human being also seeking warmth from that same fur the minks were born with. Man has always used animal pelts for warmth, back to caveman days. It’s the way of nature.
We are fortunate of have synthetic furs nowadays, for those that are squeamish about wearing real fur. For myself, I love the beauty of leather and fur, and have no such qualms. It is just life, the pecking order, it’s nature where all animals do what is necessary to guarantee the survival of their fittest.
We do it too, and I hope we don’t all get so politically correct that we forget our survival skills and the tried and true ways of how to exist out in nature, just in case one day we find ourselves in some catastrophic situation where it’s back to the woods for us. It’s why hunters hunt, a skill that should be honored and pursued as some day we may have to revert back to the old skills of survival. I want some part of our human population to be prepared both physically and psychologically for any contingency that may be needed, including living in the wild.
What good is a high tech skill against an immediate need of survival out in nature? No computer keyboards will be of help then. We eat, therefore we kill animals. I get hungry and I like meat, just as all of my human predecessors did. It’s the way of all things. May we manage our wildlife resources well; ultimately they are our food bank, companions, enemies and sources of wonderment and beauty.
I will now pet my gorgeous cat who, by the way, has beautiful fur, but lol, she’s not on my hit list. She’s in the companion category, unless she crosses me. I sleep with one eye open......
“We are fortunate OF have synthetic furs nowadays” = “We are fortunate TO have synthetic furs nowadays”, above. Slip of the fingers.
Communist China raided all their food banks long ago. Few birds chirp in the morning as that would bring a death sentence.
The wild could support only a tiny percentage of population. City slickers are plain out of luck and should focus on cannibalism skills. There's plenty of blubber on welfare whales.
Terrific post. Thanks so much.
Not wearing fur is not politically incorrect...it’s just loving and respecting animals.
My father bought my mother the most gorgeous full-length mink in Chicago, complete with huge collar/hood. And I had a sheared raccoon coat when I was in high school.
That was a long time ago. Since then, many alternatives have appeared. I live in a city that usually gets very cold and I have a terrific down coat with a fake fur-bordered hood that’s now 12=years old. Also several coats/jackets that are wool and even some kind of heavy velvet-looking jackets made of good synthetic materials.. Boots with fake-fur tops. I do manage to stay warm without killing many, if any animals.
My precious cat thanks me. Not going to wear her!!!