Kill it, Skin it, wear it. (Channel 4 on Sunday 10th August, 10.00pm)

bullets

Dunno if this is off topic or not for the hunting section of the boards
but in case anyone is interested.......

Sunday on Channel 4. There will be an interesting program on
some woman that loves to wear her furs and goes off with trappers/hunters
to see how the fur is actually obtained. I think it explores if she will still
want to wear fur or not when she knows how its obtained. there was a mention
of how she saw far worse with the meat processing industry.


~B

Rovi

It's on at 10.00pm, Sky+ set.
Thanks for the heads-up.

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Trojan911

Sky set....

clivej

Me too

Mellor

The funny thing is,
I have no problem with hunting (obviously)
but a huge problem with the fur industry.
The old hunters paradox, regarding nature conservation and the rest

Grizzly 45

Sounds already far fetched.Most fur is commerically farmed these days.Apart from seriously exotic animals.

Dont have SKY[wont have it due to it's general anti gun stance and slanted reports]

Trojan911

I'm wondering if this a spin off from "Kill it, Cook it, Eat it"? If so, it will be interesting.

Invincible

Hopefully it does'nt portray a negative theme on hunting.

jwshooter

Invincible wrote: »

Hopefully it does'nt portray a negative theme on hunting.

bring back the days when we were getting up to 20 pounds a fox i was making 200 pounds a week and the best nite i had was 14 foxes ,

clivej

OK I will admit that some of the fur trade is cruel, tha fox farming in China is an example.
The Danish mink farm looked to be OK and with the animals dispatched quickly.
BUT just please give me a ticket to Idaho please, pretty please. That place looked the business all right. Did he say $300 for a beaver pelt?? Good money or what?

Invincible

jwshooter wrote: »

bring back the days when we were getting up to 20 pounds a fox i was making 200 pounds a week and the best nite i had was 14 foxes ,

I think they made as much as £25 at a time,the footage of the foxes in cages was from 1977,surely they can't compare those conditions to present day,that's antis for you,digging up the archives!

jwshooter

Invincible wrote: »

I think they made as much as £25 at a time,the footage of the foxes in cages was from 1977,surely they can't compare those conditions to present day,that's antis for you,digging up the archives!

thats the thing about archives they are there for ever ,i only came in on the tail end of the fox lamping for money ,i know two lads that shot 26 one nite at the big money time with a hornet ,

Invincible

jwshooter wrote: »

thats the thing about archives they are there for ever ,i only came in on the tail end of the fox lamping for money ,i know two lads that shot 26 one nite at the big money time with a hornet ,

That was a nice earner for them,not to mention the vermin control.

whitser

watched it last night. have to say the mink farm looked fine to me. cages bit small, but so are chickens cages, and the method of killing was as painless as you could ask. the trapping in ohio also looked grand. but the bit in the middle from footage taken in china was bad.
its like any farming theres good and bad practice.

foxhunter

The .357 mag the lad in Idaho had was a nice piece of kit .
He fired two shots out of it but the recoil seemed to be non existant .

Tackleberry.

ya .357 looked good i've one paid for up north in middle of importing it can't wait...... but that program is there another one next week??

Grizzly 45

Finally got to see it..Best line was from the EX Nam sniper/trapper in Idaho ..."Babe you got a Beaver!!!:D.What I expected,the pro side was good the Idahotrapping section was good[Wasnt that some beautiful Winter scenery:D?????]
She came down lightly on the Antis,found the scene where she starts blubbing with the nice Mr Anti over a cup of tea while watching the China fox farm scenes a bit of a put on.As if she didnt know what they were going to show here in the pre scene chats.:(.
Quite frankly,she was being hyprocritical,saying that there is no openess in the fur market,compared as to where our meat comes from.If she is such a hot shot cook,she would know that it is just as easy to fake where EG "genuine organic Irish beef" from Argentina comes from as it would be fur.Seems she got a good open run on the fur issues to me in Denmark and the USA.
It seemed she walked thru the whole programme with eyes wide shut.Saying to the F&G dept should she get a gun to dispatch out of season trapped animals...Final scene ,her cutting up her "fur" collection and binning it,should have had the antis going "right on Sister" in their living rooms when that was aired.:rolleyes:
All in all predictable outcome.VERDICT 6/10.Trying to compare farmed and wild trapped fur is an apple and orange situation IMO,and that is what ruined it as well as bringing personal emotions into the issue did it no favours.