Podcast about animal fur

I searched a podcast about animal fur, the title is "Alec Baldwin Anti-fur".
This podcast is from PETA's point of view, they are against killing animals for their furs.
There are many ways to express fashion, fur is one of them.
For fashion of human, every year, many animals are taken  from the wild and taken to the fur farms and they are killed. They are forced to stay in narrow cage, treated cruelly.
PETA wants to reduce the number of animals which have to die for human egoism.
There are many artificial furs in the world, so people can wear them to express their fashon and no animals would be killed.

Ethical Reasoning

I found a site that is good to explain the term "ethical reasoning". It is the official website of an organization claims animal rights, PETA.
PETA Official Site

I think the website provides us information from the perspective of respecting animal rights, as they say on the top of the site. Respecting animal rights, not regarding them as humans', is a good example of ethical reasoning. Because it has the perspective based on if the thing is right or wrong, which is define the term "ethical reasoning". This organization has many ethical reasoning sentences or claims on the website, so please check them out.

Podcast about the Fur Trade

I found a podcast about animal furs.

The title of the podcast is "Driving the Fur Trade Out of Ireland: Laura Broxson of the National Animal Rights Association", and this podcast was made by ANIMAL VOICES in Feb 19, 2013. This organization is an animal liberation radio show broadcasting in Toronto.

This podcast expresses the fur trade out of Ireland. Ireland banned fur farms once, but they changed suddeny. NARA, National Animal Rights Assocation, is preparing to convince store to stop sellimg furs and to convice the city council to ban fur sales for its profits. Also, they go to countryside which has mink farms to pressure the owner of it to quit produce furs.

ANIMAL VOICES sends us message related to animals. You can understand animals' real by searching the organization like it.

A web site with ethical reasoning

 I found a web site which shows ethical reasoning about animal furs.

http://www.wspa-international.org/helping/animalfriendlyliving/does-ethical-green-fur-exist.aspx

 In the first article in this web site,  it is showed that animal fur is not "ethical", and  animals are in  weak position and "morally indefensible" againt human.


"fur is never ‘ethical’ and it is never ‘green’"
The headline of this web site "Does 'ethical' or 'green' fur exist?" is impressive. This headline asks us that if there are exact fur existences on the planet, or not, because there is no certain proof to find out which animal's fur and which counties animals were in. It is easy to shift a right information to wrong one.
Also, this web site shoews that consumers buying furs and the people who are involved furs in their job are try to use or wear animlal furs as humane and environmentally friendly product. It is people's ego. They do not know the fact of animals' death. It is not allowed to admit this behavior ethical.


 "morally indefensible"
 Aniamals are caught. It is hard for them to escape from attacks from humane because human have many kinds of tools. Animals are morally indefensible and catching them is contrary to moral.


Most of animals are smaller and weaker than us.
It is ethically and morally wrong to catch them and end their lives for our luxury.

a website with ethical reasoning

I searched a website which shows ethical reasoning about animal fur.
This site says that we should not deprive the animal's right.
If we see this site, we can understand killing animals are ethically and morally wrong.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/rights/introduction.shtml

Please read this sentence in the site.
"Animal rights supporters believe that it is morally wrong to use or exploit animals in any way and that human beings should not do so."

"morally wrong"
There is no practical reason why it is wrong, and this is moral claim.
From these words, we can know that killing animals is bad is a social norm.

"human being should not do so"
 These words reccomend us not to use or exploit animals because it is not  right thing to do.
Animal lovers blieve that human should not kill animals blindly and originally.
However, we can't understand why it is not right.

Maybe animal lovers can't explain why killing animals is wrong logically and they can't persuade us
because this is ethically wrong.

Podcast about Animal Rights

I found a podcast that focuses on our controversial issue, animal furs.

It's "The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights", made by PETA, an organization claiming animal rights. The podcast focuses mainly on animal rights, including the speaker's own episode about being a vegetarian, and about saving a dog bullied by some people. It has the part that introduces us about the history of thought of animal rights, about the current situation of animal fur trade, and brief explanation about animal rights. It gives us an encouragement to think about animal rights, especially on the topic of animal furs. You can learn and think about the issue listening to this podcast, rather easily because it has many interesting episode of the speaker, and so you'll be able to imagine the situation well. Try finding the podcast!

a website which appeal to emotion

I found a website which "appeal to emotion"

http://www.petaasiapacific.com/feature-chinese-furfarms.asp

 People in normal life would not know how fur farms are managed, how animals are killed to skin and how furs are supplied to consumers, like us. Fur lovers don't care about it, I think, because there is no opportunity to know fur problem through their normal life. However, after you watching this website, your thought of fur problem might change.

These expressions would affect on our minds...
" in outdoor wire cages, exposed to driving rain, freezing nights, and scorching sun"
"often kill their babies after delivering litters"

These expressions make it possible for us to obtain information  and to understand about animals with furs' miserable lives. It is a so sad facts that babies are killed for human's desire, even though they have no sin to be skinned and killed.

These words which appeal to human's emotion can change their minds, and they would not buy fur items one after another.

a website which appeals to emotion

I searched a website which appeals to our emotion about animal fur.

http://www.peta2.com/actions/chinese-fur-farms/

Ordinary people might not know how animals are killed in fur farms, so most of the people think fur problem is not so serious.
However, if you look at this website, your idea about animal fur will change because some kind of expression appeal to your emotion.
For example, "still alive and struggling desperately"
                      "still had enough strengthen to lift his blooded head and stare into the camera"

Thanks to these expressions, people can imagine that the animals try hard to live after they are skinned. You can also know how workers treat animals cruelly even if they try to resist and appeal to live more.

These "" words make people to change their mind that we should not kill animals for furs because they are grieved by these words.

Illustrating "Appeal to Emotion"

I found a website that illustrates ‘appeal to emotion’

Here the site

 

This site provides us many messages and slogans about fur trade, and it is useful when we try to know what kinds of opinions others have toward fur trade. However, I think it gives us too much information by the way of appealing to our emotions. For example, it has no specific numbers or data about fur trade and animals for that, and uses many words to appeal to our emotions, like ‘hurt’ or ‘cruel’. Using these words may be effective to make people who don’t have any knowledge about fur trade be interested in the issue, but is not useful for the people who want to know the detail of the issue. When providing information on certain kinds of issues, especially in this case, fur trade, it is important to give us some emotional appeal and this site shows us well the way of appealing to emotion, I think.