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excerpt: Because there are no laws in place fur trade may place any label desired to any garment or fur product, depending on the preference of the buyer—Most often, the company supplying the fur is perfectly willing to label dog or cat fur as being fur from some other species, a species presumably more acceptable to consumers. The following information was gathered by an investigation by inFURmation. The whole of the story can be seen at their website One Chinese company told investigators that it had 50,000 cat skins and 50,000 dog skins in stock. At one German auction alone, 10,000 Korean dog fur pelts were available. One shipment from a Chinese company to the Czech Republic, reportedly for the Czech army, contained 5,329 kilograms (11,924 pounds) of "house cat skin jackets + plates", representing the slaughter of 40,000 to 55,000 cats. Chinese fur factory told investigators that it had 100,000 cat skins stored in its factory. Documents detailing the export of "house cat skin jackets and plates" from a Beijing company to a company in the Czech Republic indicate that the number of cats killed for just one shipment totaled 40,000 to 55,000, possibly more (calculation based on total weight of the pelts). One shipment from China to Italy was seized for lack of proper permits. It contained 4.7 tons of dog hides. Italy, France, Russia and Germany procure these furs by the millions.... And from those countries, fur products are distributed on the internet worldwide. |
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Say, aren't you Harry Dick Speedqueen, Steve Mac Speedqueen's cousin? Anyway, as the old saying goes, "Rich in leather, rich in cows." The problem is, cows in those leather rich countries are very, very, wary, Harry! I heard a herd of those cows will always have a very wary sharp-eyed cow for a look-out and a very loud-mouthed cow that's the designated moo-er. When the look-out cow sees a cowboy approaching, it will moo to the designated moo-er, "What's that cowboy lookin' at?" The designated moo-er will then moo at the top of her lungs, "HIDE!" and the herd will hightail it outta there.
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How does this afflict the car makers?
I read, ages ago that Ferrari use special raised cows. That was a fact. I say how about an Ostrich ?
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