Under their skin

FUR wearers are indeed dressed to kill -- their fur purchases fund the torture and death of millions of animals including foxes, mink, chinchillas, rabbits, and even dogs and cats [“They’re Dressed to Kill the Chill” by Robin Abcarian, Jan. 29]. These animals suffer and die to satisfy human greed and vanity, and to supply rabbit fur jock straps, apparently. Is this really what our “civilization” has come to? Compassionate people do not wear fur. It doesn’t matter how it feels or looks or how it makes the wearer feel. Fur is the remnants of tortured, mutilated carcasses.

No matter how the $11 billion per year fur industry or those in the fashion industry or those who value their own appearance more than life itself try to justify it, fur is misery and death.

MONICA BALL

Peoria, Ill.

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IT’S very sad to see the number of people wearing fur. Animals live and die horrible deaths in fur farms, regardless of what the fur industry would like you to think.

Why would anyone want to participate in these atrocities by wearing fur? Are these people completely without hearts? Why would anyone want to wear the skin of a dead animal anyway? We’re not cave people anymore. It’s certainly not to keep warm. There are many man-made products that are much better for that use. How terrible to see people so callous to the lives of these poor animals who are so at our mercy.

ANNA DRUMMOND

Pet Adoption League

Grass Valley