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Originally Posted by petsitterbible
Hi, you're probably right, we probably didn't read the full post, maybe it's just not the right thread for it. I don't think a lot of people realize what goes into creating the products they use on a daily basis, especially when it involves animal products. Animals are routinely skinned alive (much more often than people realize) for their hides to make leather, so that's why it can be a sensitive issue to many. I'm glad this conversation found it into the forum though and no hard feelings. Thanks.
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Actually, I *do* have a good idea of what goes into making the products I use. A: I'm a hunter and fisher. B: I've worked leather and have worked at slaughtering. C: I've worked in product manufacturing. If anyone thinks that the occasional case of animal cruelty is bad (and while numerically the amounts of animals live-skinned is high, the percentage is infinitismally small - although that in *no way* excuses live-skinning - I prefer and seek out any leather products I use be from dead-skinned animals) D: Each and every one of those "no animals harmed" products is far worse for the planet in both the short and long run - which is why I fully support every private-sector effort to move manufacturing industry into space; mining and manufacturing done in orbit or in the asteroids - no matter how expensive - is far less harmful to this home of ours.
Derek