Fur Trade in China
http://youtube.com/v/3Yt1H2fq15w
Warning: This is disgusting but necessary for people to see. One, for people that buy mass manufactured fur products, and two, to demonstrate there are apparently no limits to human depravity.
What fuels the trade are designers, rich, pompous, asses selling expensive clothing to their bourgeois customers.
I have no problem with a hunter making a quick kill of an animal for food. I have huge problems with the beef and poultry industry, however. Many of my vegetarian friends break sharply with me on the meat issue, but hunting can be a sustainable, organic process. For thousands of years, it’s how humans survived. And it’s much more sustainable and probably better for you than eating mass produced, non-organic veggies. Of course, local, organic veggies are the optimum, but I still not convinced that an occasional serving of duck or venison is bad for you. In fact, I believe the opposite, despite what the “studies” say. I don’t know this for a fact, but I’d venture a guess that studies showing higher levels of cancer in meat eaters than in vegetarians are skewed by the bubba diet: meat three times a day, obtained from grocers that sell meats tainted with hormones and antibiotic treatments.
Of course this video is just about the fur trade, but the abuses of animals are often equally as bad in poultry and beef plants. They’re easily obtainable on the Internet. Give it a google. Once you do, you’ll be hard pressed to buy another beef or poultry product from a mass producer.
As it turns out, there’s no reason to eat meat. Everything the body needs is available from non-meat sources.
Also, raising food to feed animals to eat them takes more energy, water and topsoil than raising food to eat directly, organic or not.
As always, it’s industrial production and consumption that’s the culprit, not the specifics of what you buy and eat. People who take responsibility for raising and harvesting their own food eat healthier than those who depend on technocratic food systems for their sustenance.