I see nothing wrong with using animals for purposes such as food and clothing. If it is OK to eat animals (which technically is not necessay; we feasably could live off of plant matter..) then I see no difference in killing them for clothing. Again, as long as the animal's populations in the wild are not considered threatened or endangered.. same thing to me. Look at leather shoes and jackets; that is not necessary, but people could argue that the meat from those animals went to food.. it would make me more happy if the snake meat were eaten instead of just wasted. But either way, it seems hypocritical to me, to decry using animal skins as clothing but say that it is ok to eat animals' insides.