Intro
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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.
Dialog
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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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Discussion
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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