Kim Cattrall's Fur Coats

What P.E.T.A is doing is brilliant. I can only hope that one of these wealthy fur buying folks can see a homeless man sporting a more expensive fur while emptying aluminum cans and searching the trash for their lunch. M.J. Blige can now share her fashion sense with a man in 80's highwater jeans white sweat socks and used hightop Rebocks. Fabulous!

Well in that case we must agree to disagree. To me killing an animal for human consumption or use is the same whichever parts of the animal you use or do not use. You still end up with a dead animal. In the meat industry many parts of the animal are unusable feathers for example. I really don't see the moral difference between killing for fur and killing for meat provided the methods used in upbringing and slaughter are humane.

Dear Susannah S Thanks for your reply it was very interesting. For starters I will explain what I mean by ethically farmed meat and properly regulated fur suppliers. There exist you must agree differing methods of farming some relatively humane animal born animal put to pasture animal killed as painlessly as possible animal's produce used. There are others which are inhumane egg laid by chicken in tiny cage hen grows up in tiny cage hen taken out of tiny cage and killed as cheaply as possible regardless of suffering animal's produce used. There are also some foodstuffs which require cruelty to produce foie gras veal etc. I make a point of 1 only buying British animal produce there are tight regulations about farming conditions with the exception of poultry and slaughter techniques in this country 2 not buying foodstuffs whose methods of production are inherently cruel eg the aforementioned and 3 buying produce which carries some sort of seal of approval from an animal animal cruelty standards organisation 'Free range' poultry and poultry products etc. Does this help explain what I mean when I say I only buy 'ethically farmed' meat? Properly regulated fur this is simply fur from supplies which carry a seal of approval from an organisation which promotes standards in humane trapping rearing and slaughter such as the International Fur Trade Federation British Fur Trade Association etc. Britain has some of the tightest animal welfare laws in the world so in buying British produce be it fur meat eggs whatever I can be fairly certain that I am not supporting an unneccesarily cruel industry as HM Government along with various independent regulators watchdogs and charities is heavily involved in policing the industry. I believe there are 'ethics' to farming and hunting. The ethical debate lies in not whether or not we should do it it is fairly clear that it is not going to stop and to campaign against the entire industry would be a simple waste of time but HOW it is done. The less animals suffer in our service the better. The most important thing I want to say is We will never agree. We have a fundamental difference of opinion in that I believe there is nothing morally wrong with farming and hunting animals for human benefit whereas you do not. I respect your opinion but I dont agree with it. You take your argument to it's logical conclusion and one could say that putting animals to work is a form of slavery as is keeping a pet the animals are not in position to make an informed choice about whether or not they want to work for us or be out pets. The crux of my rant wasn't that to exploit animals for human benefit can be morally justified that it is right or wrong but I was merely objecting to the double standard that exists whereby Fur is somehow wrong yet other products are acceptable. I wear fur and leather and eat meat because I enjoy these products. Some people view it as OK to eat meat and wear leather but not to wear fur. Endangered Fur is a disgrace as is fur that comes from a barbaric system but provided one buys carefully as with any animal product these things can be avoided.

The homeless do not purchase fur coats. They do not support the industry with their money. Since old fur coats are useless they can be donated to the homeless and people who aren't homeless can buy a different coat.

She should have refused to wear the real thing in the first place only faux furs or nothing. No one would have been able to tell the difference. I have more respect for actors like Joaquin Phoenix or Natalie Portman who only wear fakes on set.