Reply With QuoteAll respect to your view on this but I'm all for converting reptiles info useful objects.
Spare a thought next time when you are considering to buy that beatiful alligator, python or any other exotic leather strap for your watch....
Wanted to start a thread on this ages ago, but Reggie Yates sums it up pretty well...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07955p4
All respect to your view on this but I'm all for converting reptiles info useful objects.
Never really thought about it
Leather belts, shoes anyone?
I think there are too many other items too really worry about watch straps
But isn't it more important to save the wails?
I don't like the thought of any animal suffering to satisfy human wants, whether food or otherwise.
However, I also don't want to pay more than £2 for my 6 pack of burgers so I don't think about it very often.
This makes me a hypocrite.
And fat. Mustn't forget fat.
so this must make my human skin, hat and strap set a no no then?
To be honest I don't have any problems with leather goods as long as its sustainably sourced and doesn't involve animal suffering. .
There are great sustainable conservation programmes in Australia when it comes down to crocodile skin, but its hard to know where the skin have actually come from for your strap, belt, shoes or bag...
Some stuff I lately read and now seen about the Indonesian/Chinese leather suppliers is truly shocking... but not totally unexpected of course...
I wouldn't call myself an animal activist but i do try to stick with leather that comes as a side product from farming industry or avoid eggs from battery farms lol...
Last edited by silly; 26th April 2016 at 23:25.
That's why my trainers are always Kangaroo skin, as they are culled as vermin and steaks anyway.
And,
My shoes, jackets and watch straps are custom made in India from sacred cow, as I know it lived a life without suffering
lol, I'm going to steal that one...Originally Posted by nunya
imo strap a 5270 patek to give it a sporty edge.
You had me, up until "Reggie Yates"
I guess it's no worse than converting cows into steaks and shoes (or dogs or rats into dinner as in some places), as long as it's farmed, not wild animals being killed.
If it's all reptiles you object to, perhaps you need to get some help with that phobia...?
M.
Really? How is that any better?
Born caged, to live your life in 'prison' with the only escape being turned into a consumerist trinket.
Or,
Live free with the possibility of not being caught and slaughtered for fashion?
Either way it's not great, so I don't worry about it, as long as it's sustainable.
Have you seen the price of Crocodile leather? If hunted to extinction imaging the cost of it then? Unthinkable, the horror, the horror
OK, I should clarify - As long as it's not ENDANGERED wild animals, which I guess means we're not a million miles apart.
I agree, you can't get too squeamish about animal rights unless you're prepared to walk the walk. I like a steak and wear leather shoes. I even have a couple of animal skin watch straps, but I'd still rather there was some control over how these were obtained as it's very easy to go from 'sustainable' to 'extinct' without some kind of measurement.
M.
Reggie Yates is actually a keen WIS...
Just because someone is a WIS doesn't mean I'm going to find them entertaining. If that were the case I'd find myself far more interesting than I really am.
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