Sheepskin VS Fur

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I found one of my sheepskin halfpads today and whilst giving it the obligartory stroke I got thinking.....

Surely sheepskin is no different to fur, in terms of the ethical implications of it. It is the skinned hair of an animal.

I am very anti-fur but suddenely felt very uneasy having my sheepskin.

Someone reassure me that sheepskin is some how more ethical?! please.....
 
if it makes you feel more comfortable, sheepskin is a bi product of an animal killed for meat, like leather from a cow
fur is less likely to have come from an animal killed for meat
that's the best i can come up with to help you.
 
As said, it is a bi product. Fur is purely killed for fur the rest is threw out. This is why i would never wear fur. I dont like the look of it anyway, its horrible.
 
Not all fur animals are killed only for fur. Rabbits are farmed (and I don't like that either) for both meat and fur. I have no issues with taking an ethical stance - but be sure it is well thought through. Look at the treatment of calves for the milk industry - especially in the massive barn style intensive dairy farms. Yet many drink milk and eat cheese without asking where that came from. How often do we ask how the meat in our hamburger was cared for? How the chicken in our sandwich or soup was raised? How the tuna in our cat's food was caught? I'm not perfect on that myself - and I'm not sure anyone could be. I do eat meat and cheese, and use leather tack. But where I can I make sure the animals were reared well, killed humanely and used responsibly. Usually by using local suppliers that I can speak to. Oh - and I do have a fur lined pair of gloves too.

We all square the circle different ways. Live and let live.
 
the huge double standards when it comes to fur really pickles my onions. I happily wear cow, goat etc. fur - it'd be a crime NOT to make use of the skin of a food animal if you ask me, and it's totally brainless for hair-free (leather) to be legit but not the hair on version?! And people wang on about no need for fur because we have faux fur now...yeah, petrochemicals and plastic factories, sounds great for the environment, not!
 
I read this this morning and suddenly thought "Oooh, feathers!". Our feathery friends do indeed moult each year (and if you want to google "forced moult" it's not pleasant) but I'll bet my bottom dollar that the down in my duvet, my pillows and my coats did not come from any birds that survived the giving of it.
 
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