Santolina's Fotothing

Hallo! Das ist Die Grune Punkt!
I claim for the Green Peace Special award!
I also sincerely hope that the Marcians will give me a prize for the best reflection of small green creatures on the Earth. Guess what colour will the prize be? Yes, indeed, green, grune, gron, verde, vert, mtsvane, yasil, akhdar, зелёный, зелени, яшел, сабз, sabz...Please, continue! :)
That's foxes that we are looking at today!
Farm exhibition in Moscow, early October.
THE WILD MUST BE ALLOWED TO LIVE IN WILD.
This shot is a part of a very sad series "Reality". The series is about foxes and other small furry animals like minks, sables, etc. who are kept by farm sadists in tiny cages where they can't even walk. But it's the best of their lot. Back in the farm they are bred for slaughter.
They are neither sheep, nor cows which are bred for meat. They aren't domesticated, they are a part of nearly extinct wild life. They are bred for...furs!
On such a mass scale that one could only be amazed at. It's not a singular exclusive stock for Georgio Armani.
Now, I've seen the final product hanging there. The quality doesn't justify the scale, it just couldn't be underestimated by any, even the most democratic measures. The hats are rather apt for some Absurdity Exhibition were they have all the chances in the world to take the first dozen of prizes.
PLEASE, LOOK AT ITS EYES.
I'm very sorry if I spoiled your evening. I didn't mean that. :((
I don't believe people are born to be made soap of, or foxes are born to be made ugly hats of. Germany, Turkey and China alone could easily provide all the cold climate countries with excellent fleece hats engaging Germany's chemical industry and Turkish and Chinese ladys' hands. Scandinavia has enough wool hats to sell to every needy.
Vixen give birth to their cubs by pain, unlike birds or fish. Imagine we bought out the foxie. It needs 6 months at least for rehabilitation after this tiny cage.
It's a geat shame for Russia! Georgia, Caucasus who is barely floating aloof *refused* to develop the industry in mountainous regions where it could be the only way to let people survive economically. I personally tackled the issue back in 1992 and remember the acid smiles: yes, it would be a good way out, not so expensive to start, but...The project wasn't given the way, fortunately!
In Russia it's the *scale* that frightens me. Elite product is unique and minimal, sometimes the furs are even being imported. The *mass* product is galore, the quality could frighten an antropophobe, still the continue their cause.
The British parliament has finally approved the dubious fox hunting bill though it was bet the foxes suffer only a fright.
No laws in this country on the subject. More than that, a couple of years ago there was a large fur farm multiply shown on TV where the animals where dying out of ... hunger! Via TV the staff asked for...several sacks od carrots.