❌ Executive Shaving Stops Selling Badger Brushes ❌

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I love all animals, but are the badgers being slaughtered in the wild for their hair only, or are they being farmed for meat and other by products, like our sheep and cattle goats etc, I would use sheep if they had a suitable "hair" instead of fleece, and would defo use Goat if it was suitable. I certainly do not condone killing badgers for shave brushes only. If we farm and eat or otherwise use animal products from the carcase then so be it.
 
I really don't understand why certain industries are so inhuman. The fur trade is appalling managed, theoretically all of the animals could be used to feed the larger animals, rabbits to foxes and wolves etc.
But they are slaughtered so in humanely.
The dogs and cats the Chinese slaughter for food appears just as bad as that PETA video. I personally prefer synthetics to Badger.
 
I really don't understand why certain industries are so inhuman. The fur trade is appalling managed, theoretically all of the animals could be used to feed the larger animals, rabbits to foxes and wolves etc.
But they are slaughtered so in humanely.
The dogs and cats the Chinese slaughter for food appears just as bad as that PETA video. I personally prefer synthetics to Badger.

Talk to someone who works in a abbatoir/slaughterhouse, I knew a killer and some of the stories are not repeatable, if you want to see inhumane killing and really bad treatment of animals go to a slaughter house... I know that on one occasion the machines or electricity were off and the killers were told to use 4lb mash hammers on the sheep, that really stuck with me, but what made it worse, if that is possible, the guys doing the killing found it funny, this is not a made up story but a fact and a major concern for all livestock in the foodchain, Hens get a similar bad sendoff if things go wrong...but...I must tell you this was 25 years ago so hopefully there are some standards in place that work, sorry if I upset anyone it is not my intention, but in all walks of life animals get a raw deal.
 
Talk to someone who works in a abbatoir/slaughterhouse, I knew a killer and some of the stories are not repeatable, if you want to see inhumane killing and really bad treatment of animals go to a slaughter house... I know that on one occasion the machines or electricity were off and the killers were told to use 4lb mash hammers on the sheep, that really stuck with me, but what made it worse, if that is possible, the guys doing the killing found it funny, this is not a made up story but a fact and a major concern for all livestock in the foodchain, Hens get a similar bad sendoff if things go wrong...but...I must tell you this was 25 years ago so hopefully there are some standards in place that work, sorry if I upset anyone it is not my intention, but in all walks of life animals get a raw deal.

If I can butcher a Henry Ford quote briefly: (pun intended :LOL:)

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our meat production system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

With regards to our own abuse of animals, I used to know a vivisectionist / animal tester based in Cambs. Not only did he find his job hugely enjoyable, he relished in passing on the gory details of what he'd been up to that week... I'm not a particularly squeamish person but I feel a little nauseous just remembering. There are some sick people out there but in reality would any sane man wish to do such a job?
 
Talk to someone who works in a abbatoir/slaughterhouse, I knew a killer and some of the stories are not repeatable, if you want to see inhumane killing and really bad treatment of animals go to a slaughter house... I know that on one occasion the machines or electricity were off and the killers were told to use 4lb mash hammers on the sheep, that really stuck with me, but what made it worse, if that is possible, the guys doing the killing found it funny, this is not a made up story but a fact and a major concern for all livestock in the foodchain, Hens get a similar bad sendoff if things go wrong...but...I must tell you this was 25 years ago so hopefully there are some standards in place that work, sorry if I upset anyone it is not my intention, but in all walks of life animals get a raw deal.

I have also heard first hand accounts of abattoir practices which have left me cold. Anything that is purchased from a supermarket has to be produced in unimaginable quantities. The pretty farm fresh logo's, smiling farmers and content livestock roaming open spaces does not reflect reality. Industrialised farming and agriculture is horrific both in practice and scale. I do not know what the answer is, when nearly 8 billion people need feeding (10 billion by 2050). There has to be a better way.
 
I have also heard first hand accounts of abattoir practices which have left me cold. Anything that is purchased from a supermarket has to be produced in unimaginable quantities. The pretty farm fresh logo's, smiling farmers and content livestock roaming open spaces does not reflect reality. Industrialised farming and agriculture is horrific both in practice and scale. I do not know what the answer is, when nearly 8 billion people need feeding (10 billion by 2050). There has to be a better way.
Soylent green! :) P.
 
I have a fair number of badger brushes, but, now that the synthetic ones are greatly improved from the earlier versions of what seemed to be monofilament fishing line stuffed into a handle, I buy only synthetics. They are also more durable for my use in bowl-lathering.

If memory serves, for years we were told that the Chinese badgers swarmed in that country, and their being made into brushes was a result of them being culled to control the population. That may perhaps have been the case in the past, and might have been justified, but breeding them in caged captivity, under cruel conditions is another thing entirely, and I wouldn't buy another badger brush, even if I badly wanted one.
 
I love all animals, but are the badgers being slaughtered in the wild for their hair only, or are they being farmed for meat and other by products, like our sheep and cattle goats etc, I would use sheep if they had a suitable "hair" instead of fleece, and would defo use Goat if it was suitable. I certainly do not condone killing badgers for shave brushes only. If we farm and eat or otherwise use animal products from the carcase then so be it.

My understanding is that they're being killed primarily for food and because they're a pest.
 
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