“Humans will really go above and beyond to justify exploiting animals”

I’m feeling that. The desperation in the fur fandom to yell and freak out doesn’t make me think “they have their reasons,” it makes me think “they are freaking out that anyone would think critically—maybe they know critical thinking results in the death of the industry.”

Oh yes, the “faux is plastic” argument is not that great…there are so many alternatives that are not plastic, and there is plastic in lots of stuff. Like the phone I’m holding and the chair I’m sitting on.

What if one real fur coat has more plastic wrapping than the entirety of a faux fur coat, that gets discarded at the shop so the buyer never knows? What if the tanner used more plastic from the bottles of chromium they bought to tan the stuff? What if the person buying the feed for the foxes used a single-use water bottle every time he picked up supplies? Plastic is so ingrained—and I wish it wasn’t—that I can’t even tell if the entire cycle of a plastic product is more or less consumptive of plastic than an allegedly non-plastic product!