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How to Form the Past Perfect Tense

Date: Aug 15 2012

Themes: News, Pets

Grammar: Past Perfect Tense

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Fashion is personal. The same shirt, dress, or pair of shoes might seem beautiful, ugly, impractical, or perfect depending who is looking at it. The best colors, fits, and materials are all up for debate. But in the world of fashion, nothing is more controversial than fur.

In extremely cold places, fur is practical. A fur coat will keep you warm in the snow. But animal rights activists think that wearing fur is wrong. They believe that innocent animals shouldn’t have to die for fashion. Find out what Mason and Jason think about wearing fur.

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Mason: You know, I was walking around the other day, and I actually walked past some people who were doing one of those animal protests.

Jason: Yeah.

Mason: I’d never actually seen that before. I didn’t realize that was a real thing that happened. I thought it was just something you heard about.

Jason: It does. I know someone who does it. She goes to labs that do animal testing and demonstrates like once a week. She’s also really good about looking for cruelty-free products in the store. Like any time she buys soap or shampoo or makeup or anything, she makes sure they say on the packaging that no animals were harmed.

Mason: You know, there’s a way that like you could probably contort a lot of those meanings.

Jason: Sure, and there’s definitely…I mean…it’s the same with that protest you saw, like you can’t…no one is in favor of hurting defenseless creatures, just for the sake of it. No sane person. But scientists need to do experiments to cure diseases and what have you.

Mason: And to an extent, fur is a sustainable resource. I mean, wood is a sustainable resource. You have to kill the tree to get the wood.

Jason: And we eat animals. We’re not all vegetarians or something.

Mason: Well, I’m sure most of the animal rights people are vegetarians.

Jason: That’s true.

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Mason recently saw a group of animal rights activists protesting in front of a store that was selling fur. He had never seen that before.

Jason knows someone who protests for animal rights. She demonstrates in front of labs where animal testing is done. She also tries to buy products that she knows have never been tested on animals before.

In the US, when a product was not tested on animals it is labeled “cruelty-free.” Mason wonders if those labels are always accurate.

Jason thinks that sometimes, animal testing is necessary. He doesn’t want animals to be hurt for no reason, but he is not an animal rights activist. Mason agrees. He thinks that it may be OK to wear fur sometimes.

Do you think it is wrong to wear fur? Are you against testing on animals?

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ycb1122

China

Different people have different views . Although I am not a animal right activist, i don’t agree that it is a wrong thing to wear fur .In the world it is should be accepted as long as doing a thing can be good for human.For example . leather of the snake can be used as medicine,and wood can be used as furniture,and so on .At the same time .i am not also in favor of destorying the ecological balance to kill a large number of anmails to satisfy human’s needs ,resource should be keeping sustainable .

Sami Aswad

Iraq

Nop I dnt think it is wrong to wear fur but in the same time I dnt agree with mason and
Jason Int all animals are been killed to eat ,no1 eats bears !!!!! Yeah there r innocent animals out there that r being killed to get fur or leather and I can’t stand that , I’m with testing on animals …., btw I’m nt a vegetarian ;)

Moriza

Ukraine

It looks brilliant when pretty women wear fur,but it doesn,t worth the life of animals.I mean that those animals haven,t been killed only for we have a nice look or follow the fashion. We can change fur for many other nice things that are created by designers or other people and are not worse than fur.

Testing on animals-it,s not good,but we have no choice untill our scientists won,t think something to replace.

LAILA ALI

Malaysia

we should be mercy and kindness with animals

Our Prophet (peace be upon him) taught us that a woman went to heaven because he gave a thirsty dog some water! While a woman went to hell because she locked a cat up, she neither fed the cat nor let it go seek its own food! ( Hadith in Sahih Al-Bukhari)

raisacorrea

Brazil

I think that wear fur is wrong, I have no reason to wear fur, if I can wear anycloth.

And about test on animals I don’t know, it’s cruel, and necessary. We want to achieve the perfection in science, in cure, etc. But the Scientist could find out a way to do these kind of test just in dead animals. It’d be less aggressive.

prince_of_love

United States

Well people nowadays had become so heartless, that cruetly even passed on people. Nowadays HUMANS are being slaughtered, killed, and even punished for no reason.. So, do you think, they would even think about the animals!!

I guess there must be a very strong stand UP against brutality, whether it’s against the humans or animals..Because every creature have the RIGHT to live a pleasant life, and it’s not our right to take it from them, no matter how powerful we are !!

trailo_hathanh

Viet Nam

Yes, I think so. But it is also OK to be wearing fur. The thing we should be think is how they take the fur from? By kill the natture animals? It is will be never accepted. But they take the fur from animals they feed in the farm should be OK.

Like you eat the meat. Some of these animals are going to an end in all over the world. It should be protect and not be killing from anyone.

candycandice

Sweden

It’s OK to wear fur, as long as it’s FAKE fur. Now I’m not a true animal rights activist, but I abhor knowing that people extinguish animals life, just because they want their fur to turn up to a coat, which won’t be cheap. Wearing a coat made of fur is similar to wear a part of a killed animal.

As it comes to testing on animals, I’m not against it if it doesn’t kill them. Though, probably they might get harmed, so I feel ambivalent about this.

princessanika

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

I like it vry much it’s realy nice

Dr.hedyeh

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

fur is really nice

PhilologistAUL

Azerbaijan

@sanaa2000 totally agree with you. @Ola, that’s really pity, but it’s not surprising when every day we hear innocent people being killed all over the world

andrestorres.e

Chile

The purpose of wearing fur is vanity. It’s easier to be against it, and I think it’s easier to give a solution too. But when it comes to the Science, things turn out complex. Its purpose is to get Knowledge (for a better human life, it supposes) and that requires Experimentation. Sometimes Animal experimentation. There’s no Sciencie without a bit of cruelty yet. The Eva and Adan’s history knew that.

saeedshin

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

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sanaa2000

Egypt

I dont think that its wrong,& i believe that allah creates all the creatures to help the human to develop & ive an easy life.But also allah ordered us to treat these animals well.Feed them ,takecare of them ,& dont hit them.We can eat meat,test on animals & wear fur too to feel warm,but not doing that alot for the sake of the lot money or fashion.

parion

Turkey

the most dangerous enemy of Nature is humanbeing , unfortunately…

Humans kill animals for money,benefit,wearing and its accessories ,wild pleasure more than food for centuries,unfortunately…

in today,some kinds of animal are extinctioning caused of cruel people…unfortunately.

noone needs to wear FUR in today,there are alot of artificial fur or other wearing.

let the nature free…let the nature save..

as Indians say,

” when last river was dried,

when last tree was disappeared,

when last fish was died,

human being will understand something that money is unedible.”

ilovesixties

United Arab Emirates

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julito

Argentina

what a hot and debatable topic. I eat meat and for a vegetarian who are against the slaugther of livestock to feed human beings this would be questionable ,I respect this stance but I don´t see myself as a vegetarian ,on the other hand , when people make a profit killing defenseless animals because the fashion is to wear a fancy fur coat I am against it. Nowadays more and more there is a public awareness in the consumer to avoid buying fur coats that come from killing animals.

saeedshin

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Sustainable is something which using of that wont damage ability to use of others in future

If rate of killing animals are more than growing up or them , It means killing animals for anything is not acceptable, even if it is for fur or something else!!!!

DO YOU AGREE?

ola33

Canada

Fur aside, what I would do is to close all the Marinelands fascilities which provide horrifying conditions for captured animals that arrive healthy and playful but after repeated exposure to brutal conditions become just blind, sick and a shadow of themselves. This is a crime, and something should be done. A person who worked there couldn’t see that anymore. He just left.