When I was young Animal Furs were the Cat’s Meow (If you don’t know what the Cat’s Meow is, Google It!).
Later Animal Furs got to the point where they were looked down upon because the animals started objected to having their Furs Removed.
Today New York City is on the verge of becoming the latest city to ban the sale of Animal Fur. There is just one problem: Consumers can’t seem to get enough of Fluffy Animal Hides.
The U.S. production of Animal Fur used in apparel and accessories has been climbing for a decade and in 2018 reached its highest level in 17 years.
Fella has always believed that those of us who want to do something that others might not want them to do will always come up with logical sounding reasons why they ought to be allowed to do what they want to do.
To try to make my point, I read where a lady, who we are all required to admire and who loves to wear Fluffy Animal Hides, had this irrefutable argument as to why she is actually doing the right thing by wearing used-to-be-alive-but-now-dead Fluffy Animal Hides... She said she prefers to wear Real Fur rather than Fake Fur because the fake stuff is made of chemicals and doesn’t biodegrade.
She stopped all opponents dead in their tracks by adding, “Real Fur is better for the Environment”. (No one is allowed to say anything against the Environment.)
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Shoppers in those jurisdictions who can’t live without Mink, Fox and Other Banned Furs are finding ways around the laws banning the sale of Real Animal Furs. Many of them are ordering from a retailer or e-commerce company located where it is not against the law to sell Real Animal Furs.
That hasn’t stopped cities including Los Angeles and San Francisco from banning Fur Sales.
Animal-rights activists say a turning point came in 2013 when the Federal Trade Commission settled charges against Neiman Marcus and several other retailers that were accused of Selling Real Fur Labeled as Fake Fur.
There’s an idea Fella would never have come up with.
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The Environmentalist Bottom Line Argument Is...Fake fur will end up in a landfill and will not rot. Real fur will decompose naturally.
Fella has an added concern. All this fake fur is going to be scavenged by all those Homeless People that are all over Los Angeles. They will then be in danger of dying of heat stroke and the Federal Government will have to do something to keep them alive and suffering.
What our government will do they will not tell us (because they do not know what they will do) but, what they will tell us is, whatever they will do is going to cost a lot of money and our taxes will have to be raised in anticipation of whatever they decide they will do.
It is going to be called an Anticipatory Tax.
Fella shutters to think of the damage that could be done to the Good Ole USofA by a never-ending series of Anticipatory Taxes. L
Would I kid u?
Smartfella