Looking Inside the Pitiless World of Fur Factory Farms
More than half of finished fur clothing imported for sale in The United States of America originates from fur farms in China. This may not seem like an important or a particularly shocking figure until it is paired with the fact that there are no existing rules or regulations concerning Chinese fur farms – the farmers are free to raise and slaughter the animals on their farm as they wish. Thus animals find themselves forced to lead a claustrophobic existence, coupled with the brutality of agonising pain.They live lives filled with the dread of surviving another day and with no escape from their horrifying fate.
The quantity of energy required in order to manufacture a genuine fur coat amounts to roughly fifteen times the quantity of energy required to produce a fake-fur garment. The ecological issues implicit in fur factory farming are difficult, even impossible, to ignore. Additionally, due to the chemical treatment that the garments receive in order to keep them from decomposing, fur is not biodegradable. Similarly, such chemical agents are detrimental to the environment as they often cause water contamination.
Yet another appalling fact about fur farming is that some of the animals' hearts continue to beat for five to ten minutes after they have been skinned. This is perhaps the most significant fact of all. It mirrors our unnecessary cruelty and utter lack of compassion at times. It mirrors the inhumanity of human nature and the shameful corruption of our morals. It mirrors the blissful imperviousness we enjoy through bare ignorance. The way in which we treat animals has various grave repercussions on the world we live in. It can be conceded that diverse measures have in fact been put into place in order to avoid animal cruelty in fur factory farms, such as the EU dog and cat fur ban of 2007 and the Fur Farming (Prohibition) Act of 2000 in the United Kingdom. Nonetheless, we are certainly all morally responsible – indeed morally reprehensible – for the violence occurring in our world today, both towards humans and towards animals.
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