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Medical science allows humans with nearly all of their skin missing to be completely regrown. How? Skin grafts. A small tissue sample is taken from the healthy skin and is cultivated in a lab. Through constant stimulation, the skin cells replicate at an incredible rate.
Lets do the same thing
with furry animals. Love the soft luxurious feel of otter fur but don't want the poor animal clubbed? Mystified by the beuty of the ocelot's spotted flesh but can't bear to see this endangered cat murdered? Take a skin sample and start growing it in a lab.
Eventually, we could have a whole line of PETA certified furs.
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But then heckling people who wear fur would become impossible, as you wouldn't be able to tell whether they were wearing real fur or synthetic.
I have always wanted to wear whale though. |
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Surely the beauty of this idea is that all fur would be real *and* synthetic? |
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With no need to club the little seals/ocelots/whales (erm...) to get their brittle shining talons on the season's new fur styles surely even the cruellest fashion fans would be happy to switch. |
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Can't be sure of Cruella D'J. Lo coming around, but other than that, I think it's a goer. |
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I'm guessing the most devout PETites would consider even cell sampling to be too cruel for their little buddies, and would not give up on the heckling and paint flinging even in light of this development. For such people, there is no bottom to the well of overzealous, self-righteous indignation. |
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I had no idea that skin grafts could grow hair?! |
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And if this idea was feasible, what's next: Permanent fur coats? (Grow the fur right on your body). |
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A bloody good idea. Feasibility-wise, I
suspect that you'd have problems
growing a sufficient thickness of skin,
and you may find that things like
stripes, spots and (perhaps) hair
direction wouldn't come out right. But,
still, a bloody good idea.
Cultured fur would probably
be outrageously expensive (as opposed
to unnecessarily expensive, as is the
case with real fur), thereby adding to its
appeal. |
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When I started reading this I thought that it was going to be animal fur skin grafts for humans... bun either way though. |
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Yes, I thought that too, goatfaceKilla. |
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Ever notice how animal rights people never harass Hell's Angels for wearing leather? I can never understand why............... |
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You know what this would give rise to if it ever
caught on? Skin factories. I find it very disheartening
that in the several thousand years human civilization
has been around, nobody's bothered to build a skin
factory! Ridiculous! |
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