Fur and balanced: Guilt-free nutria pelts?
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Posted By david - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 7:05 PM ESTmmmmm nutria bars
Maybe HEB needs to serve Nutria meat? Here in San Marcos they are running about,well,at least at night...anyway,In Central America they are eaten. I say why not? I want my free range,all natural,no antibiotics,doing my part for the environment Nutria jerky
Posted By beautiful - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 6:45 PM ESTat least its not dog fur!
Would you really want to wear the fur of one of these animals?
Its bad enough they try and trick you with misleading labels like what happened here http://www.beautycareme.com/murmansky-fur/ it ended up being raccoon dog...
Posted By R. Close - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 5:29 PM ESTFUR IS NOT GREEN!
How the Fur Trade Spreads Chemical Poison
Another dirty secret that the fur industry does not talk about is the chemical pollution resulting from its nefarious practices. The nitrogen from these [fur] farms also impedes the wintering of trees. This accounts for added frost damage and easier access for insects and fungi into the weakened tree. Fur farms are a source of air pollution as well. Finnish fur farms produce 1500 tons of ammonia a year. In the U.S., most fur farms are.... More
Posted By Marcy - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 1:04 PM ESTSynthetics more harmful than recycling pelts
"Synthetic for Life", you do realize that your beloved synthetics are far more harmful for the environment to create, than recycling the pelts of Nutria, which themselves are harmful to Louisiana's environment when alive? Oh, you didn't? I'd suggest a bit more research and a bit less yammering via keyboard, on a subject you clearly know little about other than blindly repeating Peta's specious squalling.
Posted By Zombie Woof - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 12:46 PM ESTEat Meat, Wear Fur
Man has been wearing fur and eating meat since he first figured out how to drop rocks on "innocent" creatures. If you don't want to wear fur, that's fine, go chew on some Veggies and Tofu; but YOU do not have the RIGHT to enforce your values on those who prefer the real thing.
Posted By treehugger - Fri, Jan 29 2010 at 2:34 AM ESTsays who
and you have the "right" to enforce your values on every other living thing on the planet
Posted By Berry - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 9:44 PM ESTEvolving
It's called progress: we don't do things just because we've always done, we discover new and better ways of living our life and replace obsolete ones. Or do you live in a cave, don't own a computer/car/cellphone and eat your meat raw and your fur unprocessed?
Posted By doug - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 12:34 PM ESTlow quality fur
Enter your comments here
Louisiana nutria fur is thin and low quality.
Posted By TrapperChris - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 12:24 PM ESTAnimals Equal With Us???
Since when did animals become equal to humans? Animals that can, are here to feed and clothe us, period! They're weren't put here to be called cute and fuzzy. If you dumbass treehuggers had a season I'd hunt you too. Mind your own business you uppity suburbanite nimrods.
Posted By Jack-o - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 1:03 PM ESTre: uppity suburbanite nimrods
Not everyone who is concerned about whether animals are raised in factory-like conditions for use in making fur coats is a suburbanite nimrod. The fact that you're a trapper (based on your name) ought to set you against pelt factory operations.
And if you plan to hunt me, plan to live a very very short life... *******.
Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 11:55 AM ESTSynthetic all the way
It is wrong to wear any sort of animal pelt! We humans don't "NEED" to wear fur anymore! It is far more eco-friendly to pave over some marshland and blow up some mountains for raw materials so we can make our synthetic polymer coats that will last us many years (Unlike furs, which judging by how many 'passed down' furs we have, last DECADES) and then be thrown in a landfill when they wear out and out-last humanity because they never return to the eco system.
- Synthetic for life! Sincerely,.... More
Posted By JTK - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 1:04 PM ESTNo
It amazes me each time I hear someone say that synthetic polymers are eco-friendly. Those things are not biodegradable, so they are absolutely not eco-friendly. Natural fibres and natural furs are, synthetics are not.
Posted By Sarcasm Detector - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 3:35 PM ESTDon't argue with your own reflection.
I don't think you understand sarcasm. You may want to reread the comment above.
Posted By tastynutria - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 11:33 AM ESTgo ahead
Since they're being killed anyways, why waste the pelt? They are an invasive species and are hurting the local ecosystem; its not like they're endangered and just killing em and letting them rot seems a bit wasteful.
Posted By skip - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 11:29 AM ESTit's an INVASIVE species
it's destroying the natural environment. they're killing them anyway, and they have pretty fur. obviously the solution is to wear it instead of making plastic fur or killing bunnies, minks, whatever. did y'all miss the part where THE STATE IS KILLING THEM ANYWAY??!? objections to using the already dead carcass are cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Posted By KinKStar - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 11:08 AM ESTOh, My Gawd!
Regardless of what the animals does or how it lives to 'destroy' OUR world, this is WRONG!
Logic says it best, you just don't get it.
Posted By LOGIC - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 10:53 AM ESTYou just don't get it
Ugly animals are no less innocent creatures than cute ones with fur. You just don't get it. It's not about where the fur comes from, it comes from the fact that we as humans no longer need to kill animals for material to wear. We have synthetics, cotton, wool, the list goes on, there's no need for snobby assholes to kill for a jacket or anything else.
Posted By JTK - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 1:08 PM ESTNo, you don't get it.
Yeah, it is obviously better to use synthetics made from oil that will never decay naturally and clog up our world for millions of years and let natural fur rot in a landfill. Oh, wait.
Maybe you need to rethink this?
Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 11:29 AM ESTSo let's just throw out their carcasses?
Nutria are an introduced species that destroy marshlands. Which is the better alternative- kill them and use their pelts, or kill them and discard the dead bodies? This is not about inhumane animal farming, it's about trying to avoid it by using the fur from animals that are going to be killed regardless of your anti-fur sentiments. Let's use a little common sense please!
Posted By MomNYC - Wed, Jan 27 2010 at 8:35 AM ESTmaybe that Nutria just takes a bad picture...
...but the idea of a coat made out of its fur is really a turn-off....
recycle the nutria!
An invasive species that causes enviromental damage? Use the furs of course! But don't neglect the best feature of the nutria... Delicious BBQed or baked!