That fair enough Annie - we all have our own minds, and I appreciate what you are doing.
Just a little story though,
In Cavan there was a farm breeding Mink for fur.
They were well fed and looked after, and not dirty or anything.
Then a few Animal Activists decided that it was unfair to breed them for their Fur - fair enough. The problem was they released them all, from their pens to roam free in Ireland.
Since this happened, we (Smallholders all over Ireland) have had a lot of mink kill our ducks, geese, piglets and hens over the years.
We (The Republic of Ireland) have also lost all our Squirrells and local hares and rabbits.
The local lakes fish stock has declined, and people and children have been attacked by mink when out paddling and boating on local lakes.
My point, and the moral of this little true story is - they would have been better off :-
A. Doing nothing - but carrying on putting people off buying the coats.
B. Killing the mink, and damaging the fur. Then the farmer would have no stock and would not be able to sell the fur. This may or may not stop him breeding - which would still make the activists goal - but also thousands of other animals, wild and free, doing nothing wrong to anyone - would still be free and happy.
That's what I mean by being cruel to be kind - the beginning of the problem has to be stopped.
Its only the way I see things, and I know it is hard to not rescue animals - as I said we have rescued hundreds, if not thousands of hens.
Funnily enough though, since we stopped, the man breeding hens for eggs for Tesco's
who we took them from has since closed down his farm. So it may have helped.
Julie