Originally Posted by Nightshade
Dude seriously use some tact once in a while.
I don't mean any of my comments as shock value at all but not being there and not in those circumstances no one can make the call of what they would do. These people live in remote parts of the country and jobs are just not available.
I worked for a farm and skinned mink for a living for several months. It stank and it was not pretty at all but it was what I had to do to make money so I did it. The second I got a different job offer I was out of there that day. Although the other job payed much less, I had no moral objections to it.
If you could see how they kill off mink to get the fur you would be twice as shocked as this. They gas them en masse...you ever watched something suffocate besides a fish? Screaming and writhing and sometimes biting each other while gasping for air....it isn't pretty at all but it pays damn good money.
i applaud you. youre one of the few that can see both sides of it and are not narrowminded about issues such as this.
you know what its like and how those circumstances can be tough. I on the other hand, do not know first hand what it would be like, so i am still held to my own personal opinion, which some may disagree with, but its how i was raised and what i believe to be right and wrong.
i understand what you mean about families being fed and money to be made, i still just cant justify killing a helpless animal like that, even for the money. Id go hungry for the few days that the hunters are out there before i would brutally kill it with a club. hell i cant even hit a fish over the head when i go fishing, go figure. ive always had a soft side for animals and these types of things make me very agrivated. but see it that the familes that live in those communities struggle and need those jobs to survive and live day to day with the food and money, i can understand that.