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From: rhonda@chinet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Imported woman's Fox Fur Coats
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Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 10:38:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 10:38:51 1987
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Reply-To: rhonda@chinet.UUCP (Rhonda Scribner)
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Keywords: Fox Coats

In article <4830@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> earle@jplopto.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle) writes:
>It takes 40 dumb animals to make a Fox fur coat.  But only one to wear it ...
>
>These foxes would have made a great Christmas present for someone special.
>Namely, their brothers/sisters/parents.  Alive.
>
>`Animals Are Not Ours To Eat, Wear, Or Experiment On' - PETA

I just saw Elayne Boosler's special on cable last week.  (Elayne Boosler is
a comedian.)  She told this great joke about friends of hers who denounced
the buying and wearing of furs. "It's disgusting to wear a fur, to use an
animal's skin for something like that.  Get a LEATHER coat instead."

The hypocrisy of these "friends of animals" is often very amusing.  They often
wear leather shoes, they eat meat, they keep animals as pets (denying them
the right to live free lives on their own), and THEN scream about other
people and the horrible things THEY do to animals.  Sheesh!

Do they make their cats and dogs into vegetarians as part of their revulsion
to carnivorism?  (Why do they have pets at all?)  Do they impose restraining
orders on birds preventing them from eating worms?  Do they picket God for
inventing the food chain in the first place?

The next time you see one of these "friends of animals" eating a veal cutlet,
tell them how veal is prepared.  They'll probably throw up all over their
leather shoes.

Not amused.
								--Rhonda