Um, actually skinning live animals doesn't make the fur any better. It really is better to kill the animal first, you get a lot less damage then. The point is rather the minimum amount of time between the death and curing the skin, because decay starts quite soon after death. Besides often natural deaths happen in circumstances that again diminish the quality of the skin (a disease, another animal killing the intended animal, old age).
Not that I'd be sorry if the whole fur industry just stopped. What with science developing daily, we'll be getting fur of all descriptions fresh from a vat, hopefully. And leather. And other such products.
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Date: 2010-03-15 06:48 pm (UTC)Not that I'd be sorry if the whole fur industry just stopped. What with science developing daily, we'll be getting fur of all descriptions fresh from a vat, hopefully. And leather. And other such products.