Antifur rally marches through fashionable Tokyo streets

Sunday 25th October, 04:26 PM JST

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usaexpat at 11:21 PM JST - 26th October

Must have been 200 foreigners because as a rule the Japanese do not subscribe to PETA's message. By the way, I only wish these people's hearts bled as much for the humans slaughtered in genocides around the globe or starving to death in the third world as they do for fur bearing animals.
dolphingirl at 12:29 AM JST - 27th October

I'm not going to tell other people not to wear fur. What I am against though, is cruelty towards animals to get the fur. Animals are kept in tiny cages, get stuck in traps for days, are electrocuted and sometimes are still alive as they are being skinned. This is cruel. If someone wants to argue that humans are superior to other animals, then we should be able to use our reason and our compassion to put an end to this cruelty. If people really must have fur products, then animals should at least be killed in a humane way.
ben4short at 06:19 AM JST - 27th October

Let's see . . . me no like you . . . smash. We don't like them . . . kill. We're right, you're wrong . . . war. Our god is better . . . war and terrorism. Cleo, get it now? We still are cavemen! How about singing another tune?
ebisen at 08:19 AM JST - 27th October

cleo - I don't wear fur either (except my natural one :)) ).... but... there are sooo many people contradicting themselves... They go to these rallies then they go out to a nice sushi or a steak (in blood, half done) dinner, wearing leather something, and eating things that were alive and well before being caught... I, for the heck of me can not see any difference... And I'm not a vegetarian also...

Moderator: Readers, whether one is a vegetarian or meat eater is irrelevant to this topic.
cleo at 03:24 PM JST - 27th October

We still are cavemen!

Maybe some of you are, but it's nothing to be proud of, nothing to aspire to and does not make a compelling argument, except for the folk who think me no like you . . . smash is a prime example of polite conversation.

but... there are sooo many people contradicting themselves...

That's fine. I used to contradict myself, until I realised the contradiction. Keep pointing out the contradiction, and watch more people walk into the light....

:-)
taiko666 at 11:03 AM JST - 28th October

ben4short: your monologue is quite scary in its narcissistic absurdity. Your "relationship with nature" gives you free reign to do as you like to nature? I'm sure nature is eager to bow down to your omnipotence, and is happy for your to condone slaughter in order to satiate your "special, personal, spiritual relationship." How about venturing outside your temple of self-love and considering the lot of other creatures?
kirakira25 at 04:53 PM JST - 28th October

I don`t agree with wearing fur but I did have to laugh at my lovely Russian friend, who was doing an English course in a school with a nightmare-sounding American young female teacher who just loved the sound of her own voice, and the fact that her job gave her a captive audience.

She waxed on and on one lesson about the evils of fur, and the next lesson, my friend swanned in in her silver fox fur floor length Russian Great Coat and matching fur hat and just looked her in the eye and said in her beautiful, sexy accent "I am Russian, darling!"
cleo at 05:38 PM JST - 28th October

The teacher may have been abusing her position in front of her captive audience, but your 'lovely' Russian friend sounds like a typical fur-wearing airhead. Or since she swanned in - birdbrain.
Cicada at 08:51 PM JST - 28th October

Even to make non-fur clothing, animals must die. So these idiots ranting about killing animals for fur should all go naked. Maybe eventually they will evolve back into apes and not have to worry about clothes.
30061015 at 09:25 AM JST - 29th October

Anyone who uses animals for anything (yum!) and is against fur, is good fur nothing.
flamnhead at 05:22 AM JST - 30th October

People shouldn't be able to buy fur across a counter, they should experience the bludgeoning and skinning of the animal themselves. How many Japanese people would whack a Kawaii!!! seal over the head for their hat and shoes?
30061015 at 11:49 AM JST - 30th October

People shouldn't be able to buy fur across a counter

? Most animal products used by humans are, why attack fur?
grafton at 10:07 PM JST - 30th October

Interesting that this thread is still being added to after 4 days. I just love the reasoning by some above that humans are in some way superior to animals making animals nothing more than something that we superior creatures can use without giving the matter a second thought. Animals kill each other, but they do so to survive, we superiors kill when there just isn’t any need to kill, and not just animals either, we are really good at killing each other too. And in answer to some that believe that the animals rights people should give more thought to the poor humans that are suffering around the world I would ask what makes you think that they don’t? Some people have been known to hold more than one thought in their head at the same time (most JT posters might no be representative).

If humans really are this superior creature then surely we have a responsibility to protect rather than abuse the world we live in and that world includes animals. Communing with nature with either a gun or a fishing rod in your hand does come across as a little inane. Killing for food I have no problem with, so long as you live in a part of the world where there are no shops and you need to find food in this way, pretending that it in some way brings you closer in a spiritual sense to the greatness of nature is weird. “It was such a beautiful deer I just had to shoot it and eat it”.

Most fashion furs do not come from animals that we eat, and don’t use the poor rabbit as an example. How many shops today sell rabbit meat? Very, very few. We do not need fur today and all the convoluted arguments in favour of it’s use are nothing more than excuses and mind games to defend the pointless killing of animals that do not need to be killed
Cicada at 06:33 PM JST - 2nd November

grafton:

How many shops today sell rabbit meat? Very, very few.

You ask a question and make a bad guess at the answer. Try googling and you will find that millions of people eat rabbit meat.

We do not need fur today and all the convoluted arguments in favour of it’s use are nothing more than excuses and mind games to defend the pointless killing of animals that do not need to be killed.

YOU do not need fur? Then do not buy it. Others do need it. Since many do need fur, the killing is not "pointless". Your own convoluted argument begins and ends with your own needs and preferences.

Who are you to determine what is pointless and what is not? Many people prefer furs now that the weather is getting cold.
cleo at 07:12 PM JST - 2nd November

many do need fur

Yeah, right. To put fur trims on their jacket hoods, which do nothing to keep them warm.

To put fur trims on their high-heeled boots, which do nothing to keep them warm.

To put fur trims on their handbags, which serves no purpose whatsoever.

To put little fur bobbles on their keitais, which is so far out of court as to be mind-boggling.

No one in a developed country has any need for fur.

How many shops today sell rabbit meat?

Rabbits raised for the table are typically killed at 10 to 12 weeks old. The fur is not of good quality and used to be thrown away (much of it still is) though there has recently been a growing demand in China for cheap rabbit fur. Rabbits raised for their fur are typically kept alive until they have passed one winter, so that the fur is thicker and of better quality.

Whether raised for meat or fur, rabbits are kept in appalling conditions, unable to do any of the things that make a rabbit's life worth living. 'The meat gets eaten anyway' is no excuse.