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Original poster

real fur bobble hats and keyrings

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Jinglebells99 · 12/12/2015 11:36

Has anyone noticed this trend? It's seems to be fashionable to wear fur bobble hats with bobbles made from rabbit, fox and racoon, and have keyrings made from the same. A couple of boutiques in town are selling them. I find it really distasteful and wondering if people font realise or just don't care.

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Fuzzballs · 13/12/2015 18:05

Cloudberry I really have no idea if your posts are sarcastic, tongue in cheek or entirely serious

cloudberry · 13/12/2015 20:34

They were very good head warmers in the middle of winter as opposed to a scarf that positively shrieked 'Chemo'.

Salene · 13/12/2015 20:43

I have 3 hats with fur Pom poms , and it states made in UK,

So I assume the animals have been humanly killed. I'm also a vegetarian but I wear leather and see the Pom Pom as not real difference to that.

I don't mind animals being killed for a reason as long as it's done humanly , not the sort of things you see videos of coming out of china , that breaks my heart.

BlairWaldorfLovesShopping · 13/12/2015 22:24

But you can't possibly know, can you?

I would read "made in UK" as "assembled in UK"

And people who think they can assume rabbit fur is a by product strike me as naive. A) You cannot know. B) EduCated is right, rabbit is hardly a really mainstream food product in the West. C) Even if the fur comes from rabbits that are going to be eaten, how do you know the fur is removed after they are dead?

And yes, the fact that it's bobbles and keyrings that serve no purpose that we're talking about, makes it worse. Definitely agree with you OP.

BringMeTea · 14/12/2015 00:10

Agree it's a depressing trend.

Cheesymonster · 14/12/2015 10:32

Could anyone please point me towards a seller of a Pom Pom keyring that's definitely fake fur? I've looked on eBay and they all seem to be rabbit.

RubberDicky · 14/12/2015 10:46

I know there is a lot of rabbit eaten in France, and I have a feeling I read that in Spain it is their 'go-to' meat, similar to our chicken consumption. I've always thought that since we have so many rabbits running around they're considered pests isn't it odd that we don't eat them more? Maybe it's the myxomatosis? I don't really know.

If the fur came from the Spanish meat rabbits for example then I wouldn't mind, but I'd have to be sure. And I suppose I'd want them to be free range rabbits too...

aoife24 · 14/12/2015 11:21

Some clothing, eg a Toast parka, will say the fur is a by-product of the pet food industry. Does that make it any better?

Whatevva · 14/12/2015 11:33

I accidently watched a film on Newsnight, about 10 years ago, about the cheap fur trade in China.

I had no idea what I was watching. It was gross and I was in shock (DH was away).

I was surprised fur was making a comeback and I supposed its resurgence must have halted there.

I am normally quite practical about the use of animal products but the way they treated these animals was beyond anything I could have imagined. I cannot see how anyone could live like this.

Furs need processing to be used. This is the expensive part and it will be very cheap to do in China. It will be too expensive to process the fur from European by products of the meat industry and it will not compete with China. Here, we throw wool away. Maybe they have upgraded their welfare and ticked a enough boxes to get their exports through, but from that film, they have a very, very, long, long way to go.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/12/2015 11:38

You also need to beware "fake" fur, because sometimes it isn't...

Tate15 · 14/12/2015 13:02

I like how people use the word 'humanely'!

The fur is ripped out whilst they are still alive!

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2529849/Zara-Gap-finally-ban-angora-shoppers-horrified-plight-rabbits-plucked-alive-threaten-boycott-shops.html

M&S have some faux fur key rings if you want the look of fur without the cruelty.

Tate15 · 14/12/2015 13:04

www.marksandspencer.com/pom-pom-keyring/p/p22420564

BerniceBobsHerHairAgain · 14/12/2015 14:27

There is some interesting info about this in Lucy Siegle's book To Die For: Is fashion wearing out the world

Have just googled a few articles written by her about fur:

here

and here

ThingsToDoWithTheKidsInKent · 14/12/2015 19:45

I don't see an issue if it's a meat by-product, and it was farmed and slaughtered in humane and regulated conditions. But if the product is made in China I wouldn't personally buy it, as the Chinese are not well-known for treating human employees humanely, never mind animals! And they are also known for killing animals for just one part of the animals body (the part that makes them money) and dumping the rest.

I am a meat eater, I wear leather and suede. Im no animal rights activist. But I would prefer that the animals used for my survival (food & clothing) were killed as painlessly as possible (using stunning first and then performing the quickest route to death ie. bolt to the brain or slit to the throat) and that the whole of the animal went to use so that it's life didn't go to waste.

Judydreamsofhorses · 14/12/2015 21:18

I was off work sick a few weeks ago and watched one of those consumer rights programmes on BBC daytime - they found a load of "fake fur trimmed" items on the high street which were trimmed with real fur. One was a parka from House of Fraser, which was subsequently withdrawn from sale. i have a whole wardrobe of faux fur coats and got a torrent of abuse from a man in the street about one of them (which must have come from a teddy bear!) so I would be afraid to wear real fur even if I wanted to.

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