The folloing is the perspective toward fur trade, seeing from a person who works at a fur farm in China. This is the side that support the existence of fur farms and the people who work for that. I used mainly these sites to get factual informations about it.
The Chinese Fur Industry
Chinese Industry
The Chinese Fur Industry
Chinese Industry
"I am working as a fur provider at a fur
farm in China. You may think it is a kind of cruel job, and I know that there
is the side that criticize and blame fur trade, and the people who work for
that. But we, people who produce animals in a fur farm, get fur from them,
measure and cut the fur to make fur products, do have reasons for doing that as
our job. For example in my country, China, the largest exporter of fur
products, there have been a great development in economy so it made people's
life more industrialised. People there became to spend money on their fashion
more, like fur products. If there are people who need them, there must be
people who provide them. Also, it's better for the people who want fur products
that the products are as cheap as possible.
This is why animals are being
killed for their fur in the country. We will lose our way to live, if we lose
our job. There should be an appropriate process to change the fur trade system
so that workers for that would not be in trouble. It's not only responsibility of us
that animals are being killed. We are also being in severe situations where we
become mentally ill, or physically dangerous. To stop fur trade, you have to
change the mind of people who want and buy the products."
After making a presentation, we got commemts from the classmates.
返信削除All of them seemed to understand the situation of fur farms in China and the view of a worker there I described through the presentation. Most of the classmates said that we must stop killing animals for their furs and treating them in cruel ways. One of them said that international conference about stopping killing animals for thier furs should be held. But some of the classmates also said that stopping fur trade leads people work at fur farms lose their job so we must think about the problem as well.
I'm glad to see that you got so many thoughtful responses from your classmates. I wonder if some international conferences dealing with stopping the fur trade are conducted. That's something to look into.
返信削除As for the argument that people on fur farms may lose their jobs if the selling of furs was banned, that may be true, but banning child pornography probably results in the loss of jobs of cameramen and video editors, but few people would suggest that we continue to allow it in order to protect jobs. In some cases, we consider the harm caused through unemployment to be less serious to the moral outrage and damage caused by the thing which is banned.
Cheers,
Joseph