Comments on: Caught Wearing An Aborted Lamb Fetus Karacul Hat!

By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:41:09 +0000

Enjoy the hat, and think of it as a gift from your loving husband. I can understand if you choose to not purchase another, but you won’t be changing the past. (And it really looks quite nice on you!)

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:28:29 +0000

In reply to Annette Schaeffer. Taking mankinds disgusting abuse of animals to another level. Utterly indefensible.

By: suleman

suleman — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:25:33 +0000

In reply to Karin Kloosterman. Dear Karen,Thank you for your comments. I am a customs officer, have just located a Karakul selling shop and am going to do my best to give the owners a taste of justice. Let no one try to distort our judgement by providing a counter argument. Truth, beauty and justice comes natural to us and a judgement call in any of these cases is not difficult. Cruelty, in any form is ugly and will remain so, no matter how many explanations are added to the basic fact (truth). Best wishes. Suleman

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 08:57:44 +0000

In reply to Annette Schaeffer. It just seems so cruel to me.

By: Annette Schaeffer

Annette Schaeffer — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:25:15 +0000

Whoops… forgot to add the green thing! I used to wear a synthetic fleece cap from Patagonia in Russia (I’m in Russia volunteering to teach them how to be green – surprisingly, a lot of interest in that here) to stay warm and then recently switched to a shepherd-style karakul hat. It’s a lot warmer than the Patagonia cap and it is not made from petroleum. Yeah, sure, Patagonia likes to rap on about how their synthetic fleece is recycled from milk jugs or whatever but, hey, we all know that’s just pap for weak thinkers. Better not to get hooked on petroleum in the first place. Unlike petroleum, karakul is a renewable resource like nobody’s business. It’s true that sheep emit climate-changing gas when they, ahem, pass gas, but not remotely as much as cattle. So until we all go vegan you’re doing a favor for the climate but encouraging a shift from cattle to sheep, and doing your thing just like the Native Americans to not let even a little bit of that sheep get wasted. Be green! Wear karakul!

By: Annette Schaeffer

Annette Schaeffer — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:15:32 +0000

Unbelievably cruel to slaughter an animal in the womb? Ooops… you’re going to have to ask for your Obama donations back, unless, of course, you don’t consider humans to be “animals.” After all, we wouldn’t want to question a woman’s right to choose, true? That’s what my wonderfully upstanding guy Barack cited as his reason why he voted in the Illinois legislature to make it absolutely OK, not murder at all, for a physician to kill a newly born human infant by withholding care (such as keeping the infant warm and not allowing it to expire in a cold metal sink) if the baby was born alive after an attempted late-term abortion. Of course in civilized countries throughout the ages killing babies through exposure has always been regarded as infanticide, and in many civilized countries a physician has a special duty to save a human life when possible. Part of that oath they take or whatever. But not in Illinois and not in Barack’s book! So sure, keep the hat and wear it with pride. If you contribute money to people who think it’s just hunky dory to kill human kids just before birth or to commit infanticide by killing babies through exposure, well, what sort of hypocrite are you to ooze guilt over terminating a sheep pregnancy? By the way, in the case of your hat if it was fetal it would have cost more like $500, not $50, and it would have had far tighter and silkier curls. You have a typical low-quality, but perfectly useful, hat made from lambskin of Karakul lambs that are a few days old to a week or so old and are routinely slaughtered for meat production with the karakul sheepskin being a by-product. But you still can wear your hat to pro-Obama rallies with a sign “I support a woman’s right to ewes!”

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:47:23 +0000

You have to remember that you aren’t slaughtering an animal in the womb. If these animals are being raised for slaughter then the Ewe is likely going to be slaughtered regardless. The unborn fetus probably wouldn’t survive outside of the womb at that time so it’s not like they are slaughtering it in the process and like you said, some of them allow the fetus to be born before hand, so what is more cruel, allowing the fetus to be born and then slaughtering it and it’s mother or slaughtering the Ewe ahead of time and sparing the fetus the anguish of being born only to be slaughtered?

By: rama

rama — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:23:38 +0000

parcel me that hat. i will use nicely….thanks

By: Bill Pickering

Bill Pickering — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:44:32 +0000

Personally I don’t think it is anyone’s place on this planet to try and impose their personal morals, views or agendas on others. We are after all just animals, all subject to the laws of survival. People will do in their environment what it takes to survive.

Having said that, I certainly wouldn’t buy a hat such as this and I don’t think it has anything to do with survival. I do wear leather shoes and boots and I don’t suppose the cow they came from walked down to the slaughter house of it’s own free will on my accord. I agree with Karin, we all use/abuse animals in some form or (Hat) fashion.

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:50:27 +0000

East, West, North and South ~ all use animals in a million different horrific ways, sadly.