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I watched some of this VH1 show "The fabulous Life of... Jennifer Lopez" while making a sandwhich.

They said she has over half a million dollars worth of fur in her wardrobe.

My god. Doesn't she feel guilty about all the animals that died for that? And apparently her favorite is Chinchilla fur. Has she ever SEEN a chinchilla? My day care used to ahve one as a pet. They are absolutely ADORABLE. Who could kill one?

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[laurashalo.livejournal.com]

Poor chincillas. They are darling. Not a vegetarian, but also not in favor of fur. I guess I just see it as eating animals is a bit more necessary than wearing them to look good. I've tried to be a vegetarian, but now just don't eat much meat. I guess it's the idea of the less harm I feel that I do, the better.

Oh, and hello. You're a friend of some friends so I thought I'd peek in on your journal, which I'm enjoying quite a bit.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I guess I just see it as eating animals is a bit more necessary than wearing them to look good.

That's how I fel about it-- brutality against animals that directly serves a primary need of my survival, brutality that goes on in nature every day anyway, is acceptable. Brutality for fashion isn't.

[onetwomany.livejournal.com]

Agreeing with the sentiment.

Eating animals is one thing. Breading animals for their pelts is quite another - especially given sheer number of the things that are typicallyy required to make one single coat. If people are insisting on wearing the things, then farming them is better than trapping, which was beyond cruel. But it's all unnecessary.

That said, it's not just fur. I've got issues with various livestock practices, too. Yes, we need to eat. But grain-fed cattle, piggeries and battery hens get my goat as well.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

What's a piggery?

[onetwomany.livejournal.com]

Technically, it's any place where you raise pigs.

In reality, today it's a giant shed where pigs are kept in pens that prevent them from moving more then a couple of inches in either direction. The can not turn around. They can sit down only with difficulty. They never leave their confines. The husband of a close friend on my mum's use to run one. It was ghastly. All to produce the tastiest, grain fed meat.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

How do they deal with waste then?

[onetwomany.livejournal.com]

From memory, the pigs stand on a grate-like thing and waste kind of falls through. The would assume the pens do get washed out at times, or I'd hope so anyway!