Fur, A Good Reason?

On line browsing can be interesting and recently, there was a series of mag cover photos showing naked famous people protesting NYC horse carriages. I agree, certainly, that there is no place for horses on a city street. While they may be cute conveyances to some, the very idea of carriage clip clopping down a street with smelly cars plying by, just is not romantic even when engagements are ensuing or you're heading to a wedding. These carriages belong in a park where cars don't go so that those inside this kind of vehicle, can enjoy a leafy place at a slow pace. The magazine also berated those who wear fur by showing pictures of torsos dressed in "ink" or tattoos rather than pelts. "Ink, not mink". The mags did get the message across: to stop the ridiculous killing of wild animals for the cruel pleasure of those who insist upon that kind of warped display in their attire. Furs these days are better synthetic than the actual. Of course, it isn't the real thing but it's the better thing. It's abhorrent to me, to think of someone setting a vicious trap to kill a living creature that is innocently going about doing the only thing it knows: survival and procreation. Is that what human intelligence has come to? Paying to don oneself in cruelty? Human skin lampshades, one of the horrific wartime souvenirs, was considered outrageous, but isn't there a similarity in wearing furs for fun. Trapping animals is no longer necessary, nor should it be. It seems to me that anyone who kills fellow inhabitants of this earth other than for sustenance not obtainable in any other way, is not thinking well. We speak out one side of our mouths that we want to protect every living thing that inhabits the earth, and then put on a mink coat. Sorry, but I don't see even mink farms as true agriculture just as I dislike buffalo or deer meat farms.  And please don't try the "do you kill mosquitoes?" approach. First of all, mosquito wrigglers do provide a basic diet for ducklings and other birds and second of all, there are substances that repel those pests rather than the horrific electric zapper things that no one with a sense of logic would responsibly use. Left alone to do their thing, nature usually finds a balance in time. The argument about human consumption of chicken, beef, pork and other kinds of farming is questionable depending upon how the animals are treated during production. Respect of earthly gifts for our survival is a matter of appreciation and I laud the aborigines who of long-standing, took only what was needed and were grateful for it and ceremoniously showed it. Wild animals, on the other hand, don't enjoy today, the same privilege apparently. Strange people still take guns out into the woods and call hunting "fun". We continue to fight also  pathetic folk who pay because they think, for some backward reason, that certain animal parts improve their lacking or flagging reproductive facilities. There continues to be mega meat producers in the world who treat the killing of animals in their factories in the most pitiless way. Let us not forget that other living creatures have the equal right to dwell here just as we do.