Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Tumblr Thread: Fur Clothing Vs. Vegan Clothing


This informative Tumblr thread shines light on the reasoning behind some people choosing to wear fur clothing, in spite of the controversy such a fashion decision can generate. Sounds like it boils down to the longevity of the clothing, and also how fur can potentially be most effective at keeping someone warm when they're trying to brave a dangerously cold Canadian arctic tundra. 

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Text - teaboot Follow I understand why people dislike leather and animal products. But leather is such a good resource? Like... My mom bought a sturdy leather coat in 1989. I'm in my 20's and I now wear that coat. That's a 30 year old coat? 30 years, two generations, one coat. Versus, like... A plastic one, that rips and gets thrown out, or releases bits into the ecosystem every time it's washed, takes a billion years to decompose, lasts maybe a decade if you're super duper careful, and uses oil

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Text - Like, yeah leather is expensive and comes from a living animal, and I'm not saying that you should go out and buy fifty fur and leather products for the he'll of it, but like... Maybe the compromise is worth it? One animal product, valued and respected and worn down for generations, versus like... Six plastic products that will never ever go away? idk, I could be wrong.

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Text - 800-dick-pics Follow this is why im so fucking pissed white colonial fucks and white vegans get so enraged at indigenous people for using hides/leather and animal bones as if that shit breaks or rips like cheap polyester does drtanner Follow Remember, kids: It's not "vegan wool", it's plastic. It's not "vegan leather", it's plastic. It's not "vegan fur", it's fucking plastic. It's all plastic.

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Text - It's all fucking plastic, and every time you wash it, or damage it, or try to dispose of it, that plastic winds up in the water, in the earth, in the air. Hell, the damage has already done when the fucking thing's been made. As the OP says, it's all oil and oil products; it creates pollution just to produce synthetic fabrics and materials, even before you try to throw them away, which, I mean, good luck with that. A lot of vegan ideology is built up around a very superficial set of ethics

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Text - bit below the surface. Every time you eschew an animal-based product in favour of something "synthetic" for the sake of "saving an animal's life", you're creating pollution and trash that won't go away for thousands of years, damaging the Earth and making life so much worse for countless animals and people. Think about this stuff more than not at all, please. appropriately-inappropriate Follow Eeeeeeverybody loves to get up my asshole because I wear fur. Yeah? Okay then.

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Text - When you live somewhere with -40C winter temperatures, you realize that pragmatism and warmth trump all other considerations. I'm in and out of cars and buildings all day, every day. I have to dress for the weather and fur is hands down one of the warmest things you can wear – ask - the fucking Inuit. So you know what I do? I check consignment stores. I check estate auctions. I get family heirloom furs.

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Text - I buy furs that are literally older than I am, in styles that would consign them to the dumpster, and then get them tailored to fit. My fur earmuffs? Salvaged fur from a coat that was ripped and functionally useless. My fur short coat? A fur that got raggedy and moth-eaten at the bottom and so was hemmed to hip height. My long fur coat is almost fifteen years older than I am, and l'm thirty one years old. Do that math. So yes. I wear fur, because it fits my needs, my budget, and my ethics

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Text - mycroft-valentine Follow Not to mention the fact that buying these natural leather products from indigenous peoples both subverts capitalism (that wants you to buy cheap shit that breaks), and also supports indigenous communities and artisans. appropriately-inappropriate Follow I'm reading the notes and it's really cute when people go “but use hemp! Use cotton! Try linen!" Yeah? Imma wear linen when the weather looks like this:

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Umbrella - I am NOT going to wear hemp, linen or cotton when the weather looks like this:

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Snow

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Fur - When the weather outside is frightful, I'mma make like an Inuit and dress like this:

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Text - (Also, as you say: it is possible to responsibly source ethical furs. I prefer furriers like Victoria Kakuktinniq, who is an Indigenous Inuit fashion designer who interprets traditional fur designs for a modern sensibility. The funds from her clothing – and from other northern Indigenous communities – allows those northern communities to maintain their cultural traditions, while also introducing a much-needed revenue stream. If you have to buy fresh fur, Indigenous furriers are a good bet

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Text - appropriately-inappropriate Follow Which part is *passive aggressive sigh*? Would it be the: -reuse of fabrics and furs that are generally anywhere from 10-50 years old? -recycling and repurposing of old or otherwise unusable materials like leather and fur to make smaller items like jackets, vests, gloves, hats and balaclavas? -support for Indigenous traditions, handicrafts and artisans? -recognition of the fact that there are very few plant-based products that will stand up to winters wh

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Text - temperature is anywhere from -20 to -50 I know, I know. Your ethics are itchy and it's very simple to talk that good shit. But let me introduce you to a Canadian phenomena: frostbite. Frostbite occurs when your cells freeze. Your cells. Ice crystals begin to form in cells in temperatures lower than -4C, which is what Canadians call "spring, fucking finally".

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Text - In the teeth of winter, you get maybe ten hours of sunlight a day and your highest temperature is still double digits below OC and the weather channel is saying "WEATHER WARNING: skin freezing in 30SECONDS", and the government has put out a WEATHER EMERGENCY: EXTREME COLD WARNING. When the weather is that severe, we don't actually get the luxury of waxed cotton, woollen peacoats and a few layers of linen. Sanctimony and sighs and good intentions don't keep us warm.

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Text - systlin Follow Seriously, it hit -50F here last winter, linen and cotton don't do fuckall in those temps. Well, that's not true. They DO, actually. They get wet from sweat and then get clammy and suck the heat out of you, leading to frostbite. Polyester is plastic, and I avoid that, because it's bad for the environment. You know what actually keeps you warm when it hits -50F? Wool, fur, and down. All animal products, all renewable and biodegradable, and all of which will last years with p

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Text - I have two fur coats, both of which I paid $20 or less for at thrift stores, and both | of which are vintage. Wool doesn't harm the sheep it's sheared from...they need to be sheared to stay healthy, actually... and down is harvested from animals that will be eaten, meaning none of the animal goes to waste. systlin racing-fag Ur a fool if u think it doesnt harm sheeps

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Pasture - * racing-fag U only think about it how u shave ur hair and forget how sheep have 2 live and how they r treated

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Adaptation - Ah, yes. Truely, sheep live terribly. (Note; sheep wool is useless unles they have good pasture they're raised on) YouTube

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Text - YouTube: TheJournal.ie - Sheep Shearing De... Ah, yes, the sheep are so mistreated when they're sheared. A whole four minutes and they're done. It's like giving a fussy toddler a haircut. And if they're NOT shorn, you get flystrike, which I'm not going to post a pic of here because it is very unpleasant. Basically, flies lay eggs on the thick wool and the larvae eat the sheep's skin off. It can be fatal.

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Text - https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/health -welfare/livestock-diseases/parasitic -diseases/fly-strike-warning-warm-wet -weather-continues But please, tell me, the granddaughter of farmers who lives in farm country and who has neighbors who keep sheep, how sheep work.

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