Read an interesting article in The New York Times today about the impacts of anti-fur activism on the lives of Native people in Canada. What interested me most was this passage:

Women who wear animal skins for coats and stoles still risk attracting nasty glares from the ecology-minded, who would probably be surprised to hear that their righteous cause has a cost.

Looking around the numerous rallys and impromptu peace gatherings and vigils we've had here in DC in the past few weeks I'm moved to wonder if the people who've used them to futher their own pet causes (anti-globalization being the biggest "piggy back" issue) have thought through the consequences of what they are asking. And did they thing about them when they were buying that Banana Republic jacket or those Doc Martens?

Perhaps if human beings spent a little more time being in harmony with the natural world and less time trying to exploit it we wouldn't do so much collateral damage when trying to fix our own mistakes.