Comments on: Victimless Leather http://atzok.com/2006/01/04/victimless-leather/ ATZ^MOK^MATDThttp://atzok.com/^MATH0^MNO CARRIER Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:19:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: bsarsgard http://atzok.com/2006/01/04/victimless-leather/#comment-11 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:23:37 +0000 http://atzok.com/2006/01/04/victimless-leather/#comment-11 I don't buy that argument. I prefer to think that we're all for the most part responsible and capable of making our own decisions. While I'd never publicly endorse buying animal products, I'll also never tell you not to. If somebody depends on seeing wearing something that looks like fur or leather in order to make their own decisions, then they've got some serious problems and I have no hope to rely on their support in preventing animal cruelty. Vat-grown meat is a slightly different issue, to me. I'd probably avoid it for health reasons and because I simply don't think most meat is all that tasty, but from an ethical standpoint I can't seem to come up with any difference between it and vegetables grown with maneur fertilizer. I don’t buy that argument. I prefer to think that we’re all for the most part responsible and capable of making our own decisions. While I’d never publicly endorse buying animal products, I’ll also never tell you not to. If somebody depends on seeing wearing something that looks like fur or leather in order to make their own decisions, then they’ve got some serious problems and I have no hope to rely on their support in preventing animal cruelty.

Vat-grown meat is a slightly different issue, to me. I’d probably avoid it for health reasons and because I simply don’t think most meat is all that tasty, but from an ethical standpoint I can’t seem to come up with any difference between it and vegetables grown with maneur fertilizer.

]]> by: Phil! http://atzok.com/2006/01/04/victimless-leather/#comment-10 Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:37:07 +0000 http://atzok.com/2006/01/04/victimless-leather/#comment-10 There is also the argument that, so long as real leather jackets are the norm, buying one of these perpetuates the image of animal slaughter as acceptable for human clothing. Did you see the stuff earlier this year about <a href="http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=1098" rel="nofollow">vat-grown meat</a>? There is also the argument that, so long as real leather jackets are the norm, buying one of these perpetuates the image of animal slaughter as acceptable for human clothing.

Did you see the stuff earlier this year about vat-grown meat?

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