<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by CanuckFlyer:
I would really encourage you to go to Quebec City. It's a beautiful place with a great deal of heritage to enjoy. I would strongly discourage you from buying your wife a fur though. Animals raised on fur farms (the standard origin of fur coats) suffer horribly. Their cages are too small, resulting in stereotypic behavior like pacing, chewing off limbs, and cannibalizing their own young. They are deprived of natural stimulation (like exercise and interaction with other animals in the wild) by virtue of being in captivity. And their deaths are horrific, the favored method being genital electrocution. Animals trapped in the wild also suffer. They are often left in the trap for days before being retrieved (up to a week is legal in some provinces), suffering severe pain in the trapped limb (even when the trap used is the more "modern" one with useless cushions around the blades). Animals frequently knaw off the trapped limb in an effort to escape, only to die soon thereafter due to blood loss or by being vulnerable to attack from other animals.
It takes the suffering and death of dozens of animals to make a single fur coat. I'm sure your wife would therefore be much happier with a great big diamond on her finger. And if the origin of the diamond concerns you, Canada has a ready-supply of "conflict-free" diamonds that are certified not to come from countries where humans are put in harms way in the diamond trade. A web search on Polar Bear Diamond will get you started ...</font>
I agree 100% with this post. Well said.