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As the weather is getting colder, people are bringing their old jackets and coats out from the back of the closet. You may have begun to notice the fur-trimmed coats, leather jackets and the oh-so-popular Ugg boots.
Our own skin cannot keep us warm enough anymore. So what do we do? We grab someone else's skin to give us the extra warmth we need.
Wearing leather, fur and other animals' skins is murder. Some people do not put two and two together and others just do not care. Every year, more than one billion animals are killed for the trade. Castrating, dehorning, suffocating, abuse, poison, electrocution and being skinned alive are just a handful of the pains these animals go through. But all we care about is the dipping, dyeing and shipping of these deceased animals' skins to our front doors.
So rather than take a few lives this year, save them. Wear your own skin.
Abbey Miller
South Jordan
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It is not just that our own skins don't keep us warm "anymore" - the skin of Homo sapiens has never been sufficient protection against the elements. To say "use your own skin" is to provide no real solution to a very real problem More..
If you don't want to use leather or fur, don't! Problem solved. For the rest of us, the Lord made clothing for Adam and Eve out of animal skins when they were cast out of the Garden of Eden. Take up your concerns with Him on this issue More..
Right, Abbey. Let's all go barefoot. Or we can substitute shoes made of recycled tires or plastic. What a boon to the petroleum industry.
And ban footballs made of real pigskin.
No more leather upholstery in your living room or More..