QUESTIONABLE SOUVENIRS
Buying a souvenir when on holiday is a way of remembering a pleasant time, but you must be careful that the souvenir you buy is not supporting the cruelty people cause to animals.
There are many things that are offered to us as souvenirs. Normally it is very easy to judge whether they are promoting cruelty.
Souvenirs can be made out of all kinds of animal’s body parts, elephants ivory tusks, bull’s horns and hide, crocodile and snakeskin.
Often souvenirs are made out of animal fur. They may look cute but you have to remember that an animal has suffered during its life often in cramped, dirty conditions and then been killed usually in a very cruel way just for the sake of making money.
One extreme example: cats made from cat fur.
One extreme example is of cats made from cat fur.
This is not only very distasteful, but makes what was a beautiful living creature into an object.
If souvenirs are of a cruel sport such as bullfighting, hunting etc. then obviously we should not buy them or display them.
By purchasing a towel or glasses with colourful pictures of matadors on them, you are promoting bullfighting.
The money you have just spent persuades people that this cruel event is acceptable.
A recent trend is to sell soft cuddly toys to try and make, such as bullfighting, acceptable: Note, in the pictiure, the device (in a bullfight this is a harpoon with the breeders colours atttached and which is driven into the body of the animal.)
If people stopped buying souvenirs of cruelties organizers would realise that people don’t want images of bloodied animals hanging on their walls or a dead animal skin sitting on their shelves. They would then have no reason to make these souvenirs because there is no money in it for them.