Fur is the New Green
What's this have to do with mountain biking? Look in almost any bike or outdoor mag and you'll see numerous articles discussing environmental topics, and in the same mags you'll find many companies advertising their own brand of earth conscious responsibility.
Recycling aluminum remnants from component manufacturing, running a shop on wind power, making shirts and socks from corn (or soy, or hemp) fibers, burning only bio-diesel in team vehicles, and other efforts are all being utilized by many in the bike industry. Often with positive earth-friendly results, and sometimes, just too use some new buzzwords in their marketing campaigns and to justify that new SUV they've been eyeing.
I've decided to do my part too - anyone want to go rabbit hunting this weekend?
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It makes sense to me
Right on. Relax, it’s all green and it’s all fur.
I have read that in 1992, the Dutch Advertising Standards Authority ruled that fur apparel advertised as “ecological” was improperly and misleadingly labeled.
In 1991 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fined 6 fur processing firms $2.2 million for the pollution they caused. The EPA stated that the waste from fur processing plants “may cause respiratory problems, and are listed as possible carcinogens.”
It’s just one of the fur trade’s gimmicks to divert people’s attention away from the cruelty. An ecological product helps protect and conserve Canada’s treasured wildlife, NOT kill them for needless fur fashion.
Sandy Parker Report, one of the fur trade’s own publications, states that China is considering adding pollution tax on fur imported for processing because fur is highly polluting and energy consuming.
According to International Labour Organization, chemicals commonly used to process fur include acids, hydrogen peroxide, chromium, formaldehyde, bleaching agents, and various types of dyes. Consumers should question just how green it is to trap and kill every year a million of our treasured wildlife? How green are the indiscriminate traps that could injure or kill endangered species? How green are the wastes from millions of caged animals?
How green is cruelty?