An article at The Conservative Voice highlights a problem where fur on coats that is labeled as faux may actually be dog fur. I think this is a bad deal, since you should be getting what is indicated on the label. But that is only one issue that the article raises.
Some may consider the bigger issue to be that the fur came from a domesticated animal. The article indicates that since 2000 it’s been illegal to import fur that comes from domesticated dogs or cats. I suppose that they had to be that specific because we don’t consider it bad in the US to use fur from other domesticated animals, we just don’t want it to be made from our pets.
Personally, I would not want to wear dog fur either, but I have no problem wearing leather that came from a cow. It just goes to show the kind of bond that we attach to our pets. There are some pets that can transcend the friend/clothing barrier, but they are all the less common types of pets such as snakes and pigs. This does not even go into species that can transcend the friend/food barrier, but I think that some people may consider a chicken a pet, and then there is the wonder animal the pig who seems to be able to fulfill our every companionship/clothing/food need.
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