Fur Farm Ethical Issues

After doing ample research for this speech, it made me realize that how horrific the fur industry is and for your information, this thing happens to animals like Angora rabbits, foxes and minxes every single day just for the sake of fashion.

In 2003, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released a campaign called ‘Holocaust on Your Plate’. This display compared pictures of animals in a slaughterhouse against pictures of Nazi concentration camp. This campaign stemmed from Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote: ‘In relation to them [animals], all people are Nazis; for them it is an eternal Treblinka’ — a death camp in Poland” (CNN, 2003). It’s meant to emotionally target the viewer, similar to a scare tactic. It was also deeply insulting to many holocaust survivors. I believe this was a poor decision on PETA’s part, and the bad definitely outweighed the good for everyone.

Feeder cattle are the cattle with sufficient weight/finish to enter feedlots and finish on high concentrate diets to produce premium quality beef. Cattle feeding operations are generally larger than most Cow/Calf operations. The majority of U.S feedlots are ran with under 1,000 head of cattle but market only a small share of "fed-cattle". On the other hand, feedlots with a 1,000 or more head market 80 to 90 percent of the "fed-cattle". Once in feedlots, calves will gain between three and five pounds per day. Taste tests have proven that consumers will go out of their way to select cuts of beef with these grain-fed qualities (NCBA, 2009). Our country's abundance of feed corn proves the economic viability of producing grain-fed cattle. In order to assure no ruminant by-products are fed to cattle, the government has imposed strict

When we mention about farm, most of us have this image of a vast green pasture where farmers spend most of their time herding livestock but that idyllic picture is just a thing from the past. Since the 1930s in America, small farms started to wither away, made way to bigger and highly mechanized factory farms. It all traced back to McDonalds and the booming of fast food restaurants (Food, Inc 2008). Fast food restaurants had become successful because they could produce tasty food with cheaper cost. Their franchises eventually made them a multi-million-dollars industry. Big business required big suppliers. Small rural farms cannot meet the demand for supply and they quickly fade away. Farmers were being replaced by corporations in

The idea that industrial farming is bad for the environment is well known, but what people do not think about is horrible practice of factory farms within industrial farming. Factory farms are inhumane and not only because the animal is being slaughtered, but because of the way the animals are treated before the are killed. A person would think that if they were to be innocently killed that they would want to be treated with respect and dignity before they die. In this paper, I will argue that animals have rights through a utilitarian view and that they should not be treated in an inhumane way.

and other acts in order for consumers to obtain their fur luxuries. I feel as though when PETA is

Many years ago, acinent people used fur to protect their bodies from hurm and keep warm in winter. They used animals’ skin to make the earliest fur while they were living in caves. A lot of animals can be the materiasl of fur, such as rabbit, fox, mink, beaver, ferret, otter, sable, seals, cats, dogs, coyotes, chinchillas and opossum. Nowaday, the values are excatly different in different materials. However, the acinent people did not really care. It was hard enough for the people who did not have high rechonology and firearms to live, the forsets always fulled of the carnivores. However, some leaders of clans found that there were some carnivores much more pricous than the Herbivores. They decided to use the fur of the lions or tigers to be

happens to foxes on a daily basis. All in the name of fashion. But why should

Prior to the final result of a product made out of animal fur there is a cruel process that is involved in order to create the product. Animals frequently suffer harsh cruelty and many result in death as a result of fur farms. Over eighty-five percent of animals used to make fur products come from fur factory farms in Europe, North America, Argentina, China, and Russia (“Inside the Fur Industry: Factory Farms” 1). Animals such as minks and foxes who are among the most popular to use for fur are often put into small cages that are not substantial for them to live in as well as have to face disease, stress, fear and other hardships (“Inside the Fur Industry: Factory Farms” 1). Animals are left to deal with such harsh and inhumane conditions because of unfair conditions that they are left to live their

I am here to taking about the many issues about the fur trade. There are both good and bad things about the fur trade that we need to discuss. This debate has been around awhile on weather are not we should stop killing animals for their fur. The fur trade is used in the fashion industry and it’s the foundation for our countries. The fur trade has gotten out of hand in with over 50 million animals that are being violently killed for fashion only. The fur or fur trim is not a byproduct of the meat industry. Fur trim is a much greater effect to animals over a thousand of animals are killed just to provide some extra effects to fashion. Even know early American economies were development around fur it doesn’t justify the abuse that happened to

According to Born Free USA, more than fifty million animals a year are violently killed and used for fashion. What do you think of when you think of an animal being used for “fashion”? Animals of all sorts are being raised to where they are big enough to be killed and used for their fur and their skin to make all kinds of clothing including coats, socks and pants. At least fifty million animals are used for that EVERY YEAR. Fifty million doesn’t seem like a significant amount, considering how many animals there are in the world. That is about 136,000 animals being slaughtered every day for their skin. Consider all types of animals, not just house pets; bears, tigers, deer, birds and water animals. Think about all the animals that get put down and day or when people hunt how many animals are killed or animals accidentally hit by a car a year. Add that number to the number of animals slaughtered a year for their skin. That is a LARGE number, larger than the number of people purposely killed a year.

Animals in captivity are abused in many ways of settling, that means research and product testing. The product testing abuses animals by hurting the animals to taste the product. And fur farms, fur farms cut off the fur of furry animals such as lambs and sheep. When fur farms. Cut the hair off lamb and sheep they freeze in the winter and sometimes die.

Author of the article, “I’d rather wear fur than go naked”, Brendan O’Neill argues that people are uncomfortable with being on top of the food chain and that as humans we shouldn't care if animals have feelings or not. He states, "Fur - where we take animal's coat and make it our own - is just too explicit an expression of man's control over nature for some people to handle.". He also argues that people are hypocrites because people are okay with animals as food, pets and leather boots but not okay with wearing their fur. The intended audience of this article is people that lie in the middle of being against animal cruelty, such as PETA, and people that are pro hunting, a killing sport. O’Neill use of emotional appeal, particularly irony and sarcasm, in convincing his audience of

Today, the fashion industry is pumping out thousands of fur coats for prospective buyers. The attempt of masking the true price of retrieving that fur by glamorizing coats is beyond most buyer’s attention. Some people know that animals go through pain when their fur is taken for the purpose of fashion, but most people do not understand the extent of the mutilation they go through. To be sure the fur is fresh and neat, certain animals are sometimes skinned alive. Fur farming is not only inhumane, but it also has a negative effect on nature. Fur farming is bad for the environment, brutal to animals and the animals are also inhumanely killed. According to psychological theory, the humanistic view claims that every person has good in them.

Annually, over one billion rabbits, foxes, minks, seals and many other animal types are captured from their habitats and taken to fur farms, and killed for their pelts. The number of federal laws protecting these animals and their fur is extremely low. Many of these federal laws are biased, like the Dog and Cat Fur Protection Act, and were created due to the alleged slaughtering of dogs and cats in China for their fur. Most animals captured for fur endure harsh conditions. Minks and foxes are kept in cramped outdoor cages, and allowed short periods of exercise. This is detrimental as foxes and especially minks are very active animals. They are also exposed to the harsh weather conditions year round. According to Last Chance for Animals, farmers “selectively