We Owe Animals “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment” (Margaret Mead) The world we live in today is very often ruled by stereotypes. One being people living their lives in much luxury, and having specific dressing. Social media, movies, magazines, ect. often show the biggest celebrities wearing expensive animal made products. Around the world, many have believe that wearing an animal on your shoulders shows privilege and wealth from the animals who don’t have a voice. We should be standing with the innocent animals not the celebrities who have so much money they could save animals but instead they choose to hurt them. The fur industrys worth is valued at more than $40 billion. The fur sales have grow 50% since 1990, this number will only grow, and helpless animals will only suffer more and more if we don’t take action. Humans have been wearing fur and animal skin for centuries, but for different reasons. Back then there was nothing, no cotton, no factories, and in general no any type of technology for people to have had any other choices of clothing other than animal …show more content…
They have earned this title because of there very low priced pelts. The ugly truth behind China’s fur trades is that it often made from dogs, cats, and foxes. On an average two million dogs and cats are slaughtered for their skin. Image if you have a pet at home, how does that make you feel that other puppies or kittens are being killed for fashion. “Up to 800 animals are loaded onto each truck, with cages stacked on top of each other. Cages containing live animals are commonly tossed from the tops of the trucks onto the ground 10 feet below, shattering the legs of the animals inside them. Many of the animals still had collars on, a sign that they were once someone’s beloved companion, stolen to be made into a fur coat.”(PETA) We can’t have people keep buying fur and to gain followers just because it makes them relevant