Pathetic that someone is being paid money. I mean, just imagine looking back and your life and realizing you spent it trying to trick people into consuming unneeded animal products. It will be hiliarious.

It may come as some consolation to you to learn that anal electrocution is far from being a “universal method” of euthanising farmed furbearers. I believe the only place where it is used is on fox farms. The overwhelming majority of farmed furbearers today are mink, and these are euthanised using carbon monoxide. I’m not sure where you got otter from. These are not farmed, and are killed instantly using body-gripping traps.

universal method of harvesting the fur and skin of the animal is anal electrocution, with an electric cattle prod jammed up the anus of the mink sable, fox or otter. Hard to imagine a more heinous torture. So the skin/fur is whole+ unbrokn. That’s the animal torture. Not so much the trapping with steel-teeth traps. The anal electrocution part.

Finding the answer to your question requires study and thought on your part. The biggest question you need to ask yourself is, “Are the materials used to make my clothing sustainable?”

Klaas, you only speculate that synthetic technologies might be more ecological in a distant future. Let’s talk about the presence! Synthetic technologies burden environment extremely, while natural materials don’t. Fur fashion cost individual animal lives, OK, this is its “downside”, but from a broader perspective, it is a ecologically responsible choice to the mother nature. In your opinion, foxes and other animals don’t belong in a small cage. That is objectively indeterminable. However, do you eat meat and wear leather? You could not if no animal lived in captivity. Animals are caged in ZOO, laboratory animals are kept to be used for production of medicines. So, the reality is that animals are caged and most people are animal users. Pig is more intelligent than dog, but we slaughter and eat tons of them. From my point of view, if I admit pigs to be caged, I admit foxes, too. Pigs are used just for consumption, while foxes are used for valuable and ecological clothing…

We buy the cheapest things from the far east (not just talking about clothes), made in horrible conditions, shipping all over the world. We use electricity coming from felled trees transported from the other side of the planet. All because we want things to be as cheap as possible.

And yet we are here claiming what’s best for the mother nature, probably while sitting on ikea furniture.

Pro-fur people missing the point that animals in captivity (which is very likely a very small enclosure like a cage, ) is already considered as “cruelty” by anti-fur people and goes against the argument of “treating the animals well”.

Anti fur people missing the point that this article is completely about how synthetic materials cause more harm to the environment once they are produced.

But should we stop with these synthetic materials? As the world of synthetic materials is extremely new compared to leather and fur, there is a good chance that technology can still develop to a point where the downsides will -literally- go away. And to be honest, i would encourage that, because in my eyes foxes don’t belong in a small cage. (just like any other living being)

There is probably nobody who has a “positive” impact on the environment.

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Hi Neil,I don’t think this counts as empirical evidence, but the long history of fur usage strongly indicates a preference for wearing fur on the inside when warmth is your main concern. Back in the Middle Ages in Europe, poorer people wore sheepskin or dog fur on the inside. Most other furs like fox were for the wealthy only, and they started a trend of wearing fur on the outside as it allowed them to show off their wealth and status. But who knows … maybe they wore fur on the inside too, to keep warm!
It’s worth noting that in traditional Inuit garb designed for working in very cold weather, there are two layers of caribou fur. The one on the inside is fur in, and the one on the outside is fur out.
So, in short, the lesson we can learn from people whose No. 1 concern is to stay warm, the fur goes inside.
Hope this helps!

That said, can you please help with an issue that has been vexating me for some time now. I have recently been challenged by some of us fur fans (to coin an abject label) as to what is the most efficient way to adorn oneself with fur. Some contend – skin to skin, whereas others – animal fur to human skin. I endorse the former but purely from convention, to which admittedly I can add very little in the way of empirical data resorting to little else than admittedly rather subjective hyperbole. Can you assist at all?