I think that if you want to boycott fur you need to think your position through and not just have a knee-jerk reaction.
For example, if you wear leather, you have no business being anti-fur. I mean REALLY. It's evil if it's a cute fluffy fox but it's okay so long as it's an ugly cow that died for your fashion choices?
And how is it different to kill an animal to make use of its pelt, than to kill an animal to make use of its meat? Wearing fur and eating meat are both pleasant luxuries, not necessary for life. We are all perfectly capable of surviving and even thriving on a balanced vegetarian diet. So being rapidly anti-fur when you're not a vegetarian is, at least to me, a little bit hypocritical.
Now the people who are vegetarians, or who have a well-thought out stance on exactly why they do one thing and not another (for example people who eat only locally-raised meat, because their objection is to how the animals are treated on large commercial farms) do get a lot of respect from me.
And if you're just not comfortable killing and wearing your fur species, I can understand and respect that too, so long as you don't push that same stance onto other people. Personal comfort is a totally valid reason to hold an opinion. But it's not a valid reason to condemn other people, whose personal comfort levels are different.
And people who just flip out without any real thought behind it, well, they're just irritating and kind of stupid.
Topic: Real fur? Fake fur? How controversial? (Read 1779 times)