Real Versus Fake: The Furs Are Flying

Your article by Denise Hamilton on “ecologically correct” fashion was a masterpiece of anti-fur bias (“Eco-Fashion, Naturally,” July 6).

The manufacture of fake fur uses a non-renewable resource, oil, as its base and the manufacturing process damages our air and water. The end product not only is non-biodegradable, but it fails to keep the wearer warm. The fact is that wearing fur is an ecologically and morally responsible thing to do, given the state of today’s polluted planet.

I was also interested to learn that your writer appears to believe that turkey feathers grow on trees, as opposed to coming from real live animals. Cork skirts instead of leather is merely funny--unless, of course, you first start by saving the cows from back-yard barbecues.

By the way, the turkey that you ate for dinner--before you used its feathers to make that cute jacket--would have cost the consumer many times its affordable supermarket price were it not for the fur farmers’ use of poultry by-products for feed.

THELMA SANDERS

EL Toro