Defenseless animals left out in cold

To wear fur or not to wear fur? That is the question. The answer: no to wearing fur.

I was reading an article in a popular news magazine about fur. It described how the fashion industry is hungry to strip the hair off animals' backs in order to bring back fur in new and luxurious ways. Fashion designers want to design outfits with mink-lined biker boots, mink vests, fur skirts and silver fox leg warmers.

Oh, how exciting! An innocent creature dies so someone can have an outfit to die for.

This appalling, unethical behavior is atrocious and definitely a fashion faux pas. One should not kill just for a simple thrill.

The article went on to describe how fur farms are providing fashion schools with fur so senior students can practice cutting and designing. Have they no shame?

The fashion industry is so blinded by making a pretty penny that it has lost all sight of how inhumane it is acting.

One designer went as far as saying that he regarded fur as a fabric.

Oh, OK. Let me go to the nearest fabric store. I hope I can find a little baby fox running around. Then I will ask a worker to kill the innocent creature and put the lifeless animal on the yardstick table. Then I will have the worker measure and cut about a yard and a half of fox fur. Whatever I do not use I will throw away later.

I will then make myself a cool fur skirt that will make a hot fashion statement. Besides, it is only fabric.

Hilliary Martino is a journalism major at CSULB.