do you buy fur?

this 16-min video ought to be watched by all who have contributed to the horrific cruelty.

basically, this clip seems to be of chinese origin, showing how various animals are - take a deep breath - skinned alive. not for the faint-hearted. even i, who had sat thru one of the al-qaeda's beheading videos, nearly hurled. ever seen a skinless animal struggle for air?

the animal's throat cannot be slit, for the blood would stain the pelt. they cannot crush its skull with a hammer for the skull fragments may tear the pelt. they can't even afford the time to suffocate each one before skinning - too many of them to skin.

the sobering fact is that these seemingly heartless skin-mongers are probably poor rural villagers, who have few other ways to get a steady income. each pelt fetches a handsome fee, tho it hardly pays for the crime committed. money can make the desperate, the greedy, and the uneducated do the most inhumane things.

the only way to stop them and to save these animals from such brutal execution is to STOP REWARDING THE PERPETRATORS. the government is more or less incapable of rooting out all the pelt-peddlers, for china is immense and officials may be getting a cut (who knows). the power to end the gory suffering is in the consumer's hands. heck, the power is always in our hands - we can stop all evil in this world with simple unity! when will we ever learn...

guess i was really affected by the video... turned into an anti-fur advocate for a moment. i'll never buy fur. why spend (large amounts of) evil money when you can spend less for synthetic material that nearly matches the real thing in terms of quality?

*shakes head* i can never fully understand this world.