Would you wear reptile skin?

[Monty]

i voted yes cuz we wear leather not much of a diffrence if u ask me

[Raptor]

Yeah I don't like waste. Which is why I don't like the milk industry. They have to keep the cows pregant to keep them producting and any male calfs born and useless and it costs more to grow them up than they would get so they just shoot them in the head. So mean.

Not so. A good dairy animal can stay in milk for a year (an exceptional one, two years). Once production tapers off, they're bred again, generally once a year. Just like meat cattle. Male calves aren't always destroyed. That, if anything, would be a waste, especially since you couldn't do anything with the carcass. Dairy animals generally don't have enough meat on them for food. Generally they're sold to other farms, or sent to auction.

[RockyTop]

Plus, to me, it's just a waste of money buying something I don't really even need.

Do you really need all of those snakes you own? If it's just of money, I am willing to buy a few

[DarkSean]

All this talk of fur and leather has made me want a new stole. Any suggestions? Red fox? silver fox or raccoon?

[West Coast Jungle]

With digital imagery today I dont see the need for killing reptiles for clothing when it can be reproduced quite easily artificially. In the old days you had to kill a croc or snake to make wallets, boots, shoes, suitcases and other products. People have always enjoyed reptile designs for the same reason we probably enjoy breeding BP morphs, they are beautiful! But with todays technology I dont see the need to kill the animal just for the hide. I am currently working on some clothing designs with reptile patterns but it is all reproduced digitall, no need to kill anything anymore. A camera and a computer is all you need. You can even adjust colors, use different materials for different applications etc...

I agree with earlier posts that reptile skins dont wear so great and also that native americans used animal hides for clothing but also respected the animals and used every part as not to waste.

[shooter bc420]

I voted no

No animal should be killed for clothing

[Hapa_Haole]

There's no way in heck I'd wear dog fur, so there's no way in heck I'd wear snake skin.

Also, videos like these deter me from wearing them. I'm sure some of you have seen these before. There are more videos on the skinning/drying process if you click to the lizardkingbooks homepage.

YouTube - Bryan Christy on Assignment: Reptile Slaughterhouse



Dennis

[mainbutter]

I surely would.

For me it all comes down to the care of the animals while they are alive, and the process by which they are slaughtered. If it is all done humanely, I have no problem with it.

When I was in Australia for a month or so visiting my brother after he finished up a study abroad program there, one of the things we did was go on a tour of a croc farm.

I was thoroughly impressed with the care and maintenance of the facility and their animals. The breeders were basically kept in all naturalistic enclosures that rival some of the best zoo and other captive croc enclosures in the world. The young were raised communally, divided by size, in concrete ponds with some of the cleanest water I've ever seen. I don't know how they do it, but keeping water clean with an enclosure full of young to adolescent crocs is freaking hard.

I ate croc while I was in Australia. It really would surprise me if it didn't come from that farm because there aren't a ton of croc farms in the country. I would happily buy a croc wallet from them if I was in the market for one, and if it were legal in the US (it isn't, it is too hard to distinguish saltwater croc skin from american croc skin).

When people raise cows, every bit of the cow gets used. The meat is sold as, well, meat. The hide is turned into everything from shoes to car seats. The hooves are turned to glue and the bones are probably a big component in reptile calcium supplements. I have no issues with leather wallets as long as the cows are raised and slaughtered humanely, and there is no waste with the remnant parts of the animals. The same goes for reptiles.

[DarkSean]

There's no way in heck I'd wear dog fur, so there's no way in heck I'd wear snake skin.

Also, videos like these deter me from wearing them. I'm sure some of you have seen these before. There are more videos on the skinning/drying process if you click to the lizardkingbooks homepage.


Dennis

That video shows nothing but the skinning of an animal. There is nothing wrong with that. How do you think they get that peice of steak or burger or chicken nugget?

If anything the video shows people with great skill.

[Hapa_Haole]

That video shows nothing but the skinning of an animal. There is nothing wrong with that. How do you think they get that peice of steak or burger or chicken nugget?

If anything the video shows people with great skill.

Exactly. Its the simple fact that I own reptiles that makes me not like it (going back to my dog comment).

I understand that animals must die for others to live (although I'm not sure how killing reptiles sustains human life), I just avoid eating/using the animals I have certain affinities for.

Dennis