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Shell Purse
what are your views on the wildlife pet trade?
Each year billions of animals of all types are captured from the wild and sold in the wildlife trade. Commercial uses of wildlife can be divided into the trade in wildlife parts and products and the trade in live wildlife. The trade in wildlife parts and products includes exotic leathers and fur (elephant skin boots, kangaroo skin soccer balls, cat, fox and coyote fur coats, ostrich skin boots, bird feather apparel, snake and lizard skin shoes, crocodile and alligator shoes and purses, eel skin purses and shark skin shoes), ornamental objects (elephant ivory jewelry, sea turtle shell cases, snail shells, matted butterflies), food (monkey and ape bushmeat, turtle soup, frog legs, bear paws, fish, lobsters, crabs, shrimp, clams and oysters), and traditional medicine (tiger bones, rhinoceros horns, deer antlers, bear gall bladders).
I believe that the time has come to stamp out the trade once and for all!!
I think it's terrible. I don't understand how people can have such little respect for their fellow creatures. Why anyone would want to keep a beautiful wild creature in a cage or similar confined space is beyond me. How selfish and thoughtless an act. Using animals for any kind of human pleasure and entertainment is sickening.
I guess it's understandable that poverty drives a lot of people to these things, but theres a wide cross section of society involved in different stages and aspects of the trade. Poverty, its reproduction and role in the exploitation of the planet is itself an issue that needs to be addressed - not very likely in this new 'Market State world, the global economy where free trade rules, except if you live in the continent of Africa which accounts for about 13% of all world trade.
In general animal trading shows how far humanity has to go before it can call itself civilised. We are basically - as a species - without conscience. If we ever do develop that collective conscience depends on the conscious efforts of each individual, not to actively try to stop such things as the animal trade necessarily, but to live more fully aware contemplative lives.
There is so much hustle and bustle, idle distraction, cynicism and plain negativity in our society right now, it is hard to see where the space or impetus for moving in that direction will come from. Perhaps though it is already happening?
Perhaps the time will come when the balance of numbers will be tipped in favour of those who feel the disease within our collective soul and want to help heal it. But we can't hang around, there won't be any wildlife left soon.
