Sentences with phrase «fur pelt»

Other accounts contend that the breed was a source of fur pelts and food in Manchuria and Mongolia.

For the installation, D.O.A. (Dead on Arrival), whose title is borrowed from the police jargon used to describe a murder scene, Shenhav meticulously recreates a hunter's cabin, complete with all of the tools of his trade: rifles, knives, guns, tree stumps, ammunition, traps, taxidermy deer heads and fur pelts.

Not exact matches

As a young inventor in Massachusetts, he'd been fascinated by old - style bateaux, fur - trading boats with shallow drafts for negotiating small rivers and flat bottoms to provide stability when heavily laden with pelts.

According to IFTF data, the vast majority of the fur industry's pelts — upwards of 85 percent — now come from farm - raised animals.

First imported by fur farmers for their superior pelt in the 1920s, the animals escaped and thrived in the wild.

To test the difference between groomed or ungroomed fur, the team manually combed vervet monkey pelts either with or against the grain for 50 strokes.

► A man skins rabbits and we see a blood - covered, skinned carcass and a bloody knife along with many cleaned pelts that are then made into a fur coat for a young girl to wear.

She can't afford the «right» clothes, instead making her own skating costume and a fur coat from rabbit pelts.

Russian fur traders arrived in the early 1800s and exploited resources such as blubber from fur seals and pelts from sea lions.

This needs to be addressed regardless (recently announced restructuring is obviously insufficient), but the substantial adjustment in pelt prices will restrict supply & stimulate demand — and longer - term, the fur industry continues to grow, and Saga still strikes me as a genuine cyclical growth stock.

With Saga Furs responsible for 100 % of the sourcing, sorting, grading & promotion of its branded fur, it now controls buyers & sellers» access to (predominantly certified) high quality premium furs (inc. mutation pelts & about half the global fox fur market).

More galling is the utterly absurd irrelevance of this focus on fur: The industry produces 55 - 60 million pelts a year — a rounding error vs. the billion animals that produce leather each year, and the tens of billions (seriously, check it) of animals slaughtered each year for food.

They also challenged the claim that «Reduced CO2 gas emissions; No transportation needed, fur animals are born, raised and die on the farm» was misleading because it did not take into account other transportation factors such as delivering food to the farm and the transportation of pelts.

«The fur coat animals force the realization that the pelts were once the skins of living animals, and thus provoke consideration of the public's celebration and simultaneous exploitation of the captive creatures.