All posts tagged: vegetarian

Meat, fur, feathers & me

This post was sparked in part by a reader question, and in part by tomorrow’s terminology post (which means, in a way, you are getting a response from the future.).  It also interlocks with Steph’s post on taste, and judging (or not judging) other people by their clothes. First, the reader question: A reader asks “How do you feel about fur?  Would you use it if doing so was historically accurate?  Could you consider a reproduction with faux fur historically accurate?” As a bit of background to this, I have a very specific and defined attitude towards animals and meat.  I will eat local unfarmed fish as long as it’s not a species that has been identified as being at-risk (bluefin tuna, orange roughies etc.).  I eat wild game in areas where the wild game is an introduced species (so deer & goat in NZ & Hawaii).  I don’t eat commercial meat, even the ethically farmed stuff.  I just don’t like the idea of something existing merely to die.  I don’t eat pork.  The thought …