OMG! You Have No Idea How This Infuriates Me!

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Alright, one I know I'm going to get people ticked off at me but I just have to speak out here. I've never been a fur wearing person, EVER. In my opinion there are so many alternatives to wearing fur, and NO this has NOTHING to do with PETA, although I do happen to be a member of not only them, but support a lot of other animal oriented organizations, such as The Humane Society Of The United States, ASPCA among some. My opinion is that the fur looks better on the animal than in fulfilling people's vanity, and yes, to me, that is all it is, sheer vanity. Most people though are under the delusion that the fur trade consists of skinning fur off of animals ONLY such as mink, chinchillas, rabbits and maybe raccoons. But did you know that many fur products are of "unknown" origins of which animal, since the source of fur doesn't necessarily have to be labeled? This is particularly true with clothing with fur trim....and chances are that fur is from cats and dogs. One of the largest fur trading countries in the world to skin cats and dogs is..sorry to my Chinese MyLotters...China. At one website I found source after source of these facts such as: (Quote): [i]According to government estimates, 500,000 garments sold in the United States every year are trimmed with bobcat, fox, rabbit, or other animal fur, potentially with nothing on the label to indicate there is any fur on the garment. With the labeling loophole in place, consumers are left in the dark; they have no idea that their new clothes may contain fur from animals—even dogs and cats—whose treatment can include being skinned alive, anally electrocuted, or held struggling underwater to drown. Long haired cats are kept as pets in China, yet ironically an estimated 500,000 short haired cats, mainly ginger or tabby colored are raised for their pelts, estimated figures are that about a half million cats are killed each season from October to February. Cat fur is hard to distinguish from other furs once it has been dyed - President of a German company prominent in the cat fur trade. HSI estimates around 2 million cats and dogs are killed for fur each year, with an estimated 5,400 cats and dogs killed in China each day. [/i] The source of this is this website: http://www.caninescorner.org/topics/dogfur/numbers.htm Then I got an email alert about the fur trade from, yes PETA...there is a video on it that shows a raccoon being skinned alive, being hung up by it's tail while being skinned...then the body is thrown on a pile of other raccoons that were skinned...the camera shows it's head rising up looking directly at the camera before it dies. The next scene is of a white dog being skinned alive...when the dog doesn't "cooperate" to the person's satisfaction, the person repeatedly stomps on its head...it's STILL not dead..finally he decides to stand on full weight on the dog's head to crush it's skull. The PETA site is here, plus that video if you have the stomach to watch it: http://www.peta.org/feat/ChineseFurFarms/index.asp Alright, while I might not be a believer in wearing fur, can't these animals at LEAST be killed first before they are skinned? Another "big" market is for dog fur....such as in for rugs..in fact some time ago, I got an email from a friend of mine and it show a long warehouse of skinned dogs rugs to be sold in much the same fashion as bear skinned rugs and the big hoopla then was that the New Zealand ebay had several auctioneers selling these dog skinned rugs. another source of info abut the dog fur trade is here. http://www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3777805 I'm sorry, but I don't know about you but this rattles my rails no end maybe since I don't advocate fur wearing to begin with, but to see just HOW these animals are skinned is atrocious...at least for crap sake kill the animal first. Where you aware that a lot of the "fur" especially fur trim might be from cats or dogs? I mean I just don't get it. Maybe it's my part Native American blood in me riling up here....Yes, our ancestors killed animals...to eat...and yes to utilize every single part of the animal...my ancestors didn't kill animals just for their fur which the fur industry for the most part is guilty of doing.