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maybe you cannot make an ethical distinction but I can..... an animal purely raised for their coats is one thing. i see leather as byproducts of human food production yes. I have hope and faith that there are still humane farms as I drive across the midwest and see farm after farm with cows on pastures which is quite different from this picture of a fox farm and I am not sure why they even call them farms....i make a real effort to buy from free range grocers and never buy cheap leather in the hopes that it is collected from reputable farms and in humane ways.
and things are changing... " Austria and the U.K. have banned fur factory farms, and the Netherlands began phasing out fox and chinchilla farming in April 1998.14 In the U.S., there are approximately 324 mink farms left, down from 1,027 in 1988.15 In a sign of the times, supermodel Naomi Campbell was denied entry to a trendy New York club because she was wearing fur. Said the club’s owner, “I really love animals, and I wanted us to be the good guys.”
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