None of them look as hot as my wife in her mink and Persian lamb.

Aaron - oooh la la!

re. Kelis - from the mouths of babes (either type?) and poptarts...

There is faint hope for Hollywood after all.

Earth to celebrities: Mink are carnivorous not rodents.

Would a mink eat new?

More incontrovertible proof of the mot that no 'new' is good news!...alas....

Earth to everyone - New is crazy as a sh*thouse rat!

I've only got one thing to say about Kelis.

Daaaaammmmnnnnn!

Nas you dun lost your mind letting her go!

Okay two things.

Can you people distinguish a troll from someone you simply disagree with? I think I usually disagree with new, but I don't believe she's disingenuous.

I understood only half of what you said new, but I think I got the point.

Indy - many of us suspect that new is really quite English capable, while being a bit demented and may even be a regular contributor under another name, so we treat "it" like a troll, or a sh*thouse mouse.

I still like the one about the seal-hunt protestor who walked into a club..........

Black Mamba, now I'm mad at you, poptarts, why did I never think of that!

In a practical sense, fur=no hypothermia. -40C is fun with Caribou mittens, Norwegian cow snow boots, beaver hat and goose down jacket.

what if i told Kelis i had a pterodactyl in my trousers ?.....she looks so wide eyed delightfuly simple i wonder if she'd believe me....

..'a little baby pterodactyl ', i'd say to her...."his name is petey and he's a real cutey"....

fur , fire and fashion, the reasons we got away from Olduvai gorge about 500k years ago.

Here is a good video on the subject: http://meat.org

I don't like to see people wearing furs. It's an ostentatious display. We have many other fine fabrics. If you are cold, there is down, fleece and a heater in your car. Wool is still pretty good too.

There is a lot of animal cruelty in the fur trade, not mention leg hold still use in wild fur trapping. I think it is pretty sick actually. We should be past the fur thing. It's a throw back to the cave and tee pee era.

Let us all grow up. The celebs on that site giving PETA the finger were largely air-head sluts. Who wants to ID with that?

Abe...have you been into your cat's catnip?

Fur is still the warmest garment, Abe. It's also the cheapest, for an Inuit, and it's a renewable resource. Fleece will kill you, if you put too much faith in it. Down involves killing an animal, just like fur does. Polyester linings are made from petroleum. Wool is the only man made fibre that will keep you alive, without killing anything, or using fossil fuel. I'm not talking about keeping you warm while your car warms up. I'm talking about staying outside for hours at a time.

Leghold traps are pretty well gone. I've seen animals in leghold traps. It is pretty disgusting. Most of today's fur comes from farms. These can be monitored for humane treatment, however effective that is. For the most part, the fur trade is no more cruel than hunting, or farming.

And Abe....leg hold traps are now illegal to use by anybody,anywhere, in Canada.Have been for years.Farming mink,weasels,foxes is how it is mostly done nowadays. Any trapping in the wild is done either through snares or conibear traps,which kill faster then the guy on the farm who killed the pig to put the bacon on your table. You are a dupe of the anti-fur lobby.

Now!!! C.Z. Jones!!! Classy is an understatement.

The people that are freaked out by fur would be really freaked out by skinning the critter out, fleshing the hide and stretching it out. All part of a lifestyle that relates to life as it is, not in some fantasy created liberal reality where reality is what they THINK it SHOULD be. That is their reality and the main reason that they're BAT-$HIT NUTS!!!

Abe Froman - I'm warming up to you - we may be more sympatico than I had originally thought.

Still, fur is a funny thing. Of course it is useful, and practical, but it must be balanced against the political and thoughtful

Maybe Kathy Shaidle can slap me silly now

must have been great to polish off a 50 pound mastadon steak for supper years ago.

"Maybe Kathy Shaidle can slap me silly now"

Oh, so it's like that, Larsen, is it? Decked out in chinchilla and mink as she upbraids you harshly for your lack of fervour and commitment, I think I get the picture ;-)

Tsk, tsk.

It's always the cultured, sensible ones.

rebarbarian asks the most important question of the day: "Would a mink eat new?"

I guess it depends. Is the mink a picky eater?

"Would a mink eat new?"

My husband worked at a mink farm many years ago and, if what he says is true, yes, a mink would eat new. Mink will eat anything - new, you, me, each other, poop, you name it.

Nothing, but nothing I have is as warm as the sealskin parka with the wolf ruff I bought in Iqaluit. Fur is warm, renewable, and keeps the Inuit employed. As long as the animals are harvested humanely and sustainably, I'm all for it. Besides, in the north, there really is no other product that can be harvested from the land. I can't imagine any crop growing up there. So, it's animals.

How come the PETA freaks hate people in fur but when I walk up to them on the street in my leather jacket I don't here them saying anything?

PETA hats only the things that generate positive cash flow for PETA.

Paris Hiltons fur coat is small (see pic), because it's hard to stitch all those little chiwawa’s she carries around together.

PETA

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