Fur: Former "Top Model" contestant opens fur store

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I recently read about a former "Top Model" contestant who opened a fur store. Justyna Pawlicka, who was in 6th place on "Top Model. Zostan modelka" (the Polish version of "America's Next Top Model") two years ago, recently posted photos of herself on Facebook holding a baby fox and wrote "Season for foxes. Time for fur!"



This caused a lot of controversy.

The host of the show, supermodel Joanna Krupa, who is very against animal cruelty and posed nude in PETA's "Fur? I'd rather go naked" campaign, slammed her on Instagram, calling her "a devil in a human's body" and "a monster with no soul, heart or love".



A Facebook page campaigning against the store was created, called "STOP dla Justyna Pawlicka FUTRA"

Article (in Polish): http://www.pudelek.pl/artykul/83176/byl ... n_otwarty/

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What are your views on fur?

That's a very thinly veiled psychosis. Foxes are very intelligent from what everyone, ever, has observed.

ermine - by which i mean mink and other weasels - are also very intelligent.

And they are little s**ts too. Evilest little beasts you will ever meet. Anybody who has ever met one would gladly wear their pelts.

I don't have a problem with this.

Also, Werner Herzog's "Happy People - A Year in the Taiga" is a great documentary.

Why?

On that I agree. Reindeer herders and furtrappers respect nature though, what need does a supermodel have for killing?

I'm sure the big ones can be scary, I've seen a wolverine backpacking, being an urbanite ninny is no rationale for slaughtering wildlife.

She's not a supermodel, she's a wannabe model who flopped, so she's killing innocent animals instead.

I have no more problems with fur than I have with leather, which is to say none at all. Now, insane, hyperbole flinging animal rights activists on the other hand...

I eat meat; therefore, I don't care about fur.

Nothing wrong from using pelts from harvested animals like deer,elk,bear or cattle.A whole lot wrong with fur farms.The same with any factory raised animal,no quality of life.
As for leg hold traps,no one needs a pelt that bad anymore.Lots of modern alternatives out there.
Leather,a big difference between a range cow and a fox in a two by two cage.
Don't see how there is even a comparison,I look at cows everyday,they have lots of room to move around and have a life.No way is it the same.

Yeah, you've probably been hunting/fishing and felt reverence towards your game. As have I. My car has leather seats, they last twice as long as cloth. That's markedly different from stealing the lives of creatures we've known as quite cunning in mythos and folklore for thousands of years. I have no problem with predatory impulse when has a practical use, the fact is that we haven't had any need for furs since we began raising sheep. Wool is a better material anyway.

If not for scavengers like foxes all your cows, deer, elk and most large game would've been wiped out by plagues centuries ago.

I like fur, be it on the animal or not. I do not like the fur industry, where they raise these animals in cages. I grew up around mountain men, men who hunt and trap, and I have lot more respect for them, because they respect the animals.

They are particularly vicious killers, and generally just mean and nasty.

I suppose i was making a reference to how only the cute animals seem to deserve attention -- but we used to have a mink rancher not far from my home.

I know a guy who was a TA for an animal husbandry class at the university. They went out there to learn about raising animals for fur. He said some fluffy-headed blonde girl said something about them being so cute - then crouched down and waggled her finger through the wire of the cage.

And a mink latched onto her finger and bit down hard. And would not let go. They ended up strangling the little beast to death trying to pry it off.

Well, one of the points made by the trappers in that film is that not all of the trappers respect nature. Some of those guys trap out of season and don't care that if you kill a mother before it can raise a brood, you have less to trap next year.

Also, it's apparent from their comments that they have been over-trapping sable.

I don't have a problem with furs; and, back-in-the-day, would've loved to own a full-length sable mink.