[MessiahofSilence]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Fake fur is usually made in cheap child labor factories and contains material that takes 1000's of years to break down, let alone toxins produced while making it are inhaled by the workers.

Because fake fur tends to be cheap, people tend to discard it faster, meaning, like plastic bags, they'll stay in landfills for years and years. Upon keeping it and washing it, it then releases said material into water sources and into the sediment and water dwelling animals could ingest it.

The fur argument is a double edged sword. One damages the environment. One kills animals.

So tbh the best alternative would be to just not utilize either.


Also, it's common that clothing labels will lie about just how fake the fur is. Sometimes it's completely real, or it contains real fur mixed in. (To be fair though, sometimes the companies might not actually know, because the fur is almost always being sourced from outside the country.)

Thanks for the informed response. This whole tumblr-anti-fur-soapbox spiel was getting extremely annoying.