Beauty is not beautiful anymore, when it causes another creature’s suffering.
That’s why I urge you to say NO to feather extensions.
For fashionistas with brains, fashion and beauty DO HAVE ETHICS while feather extensions DON’T and I’ll explain why.
The kind of feathers that is used as hair extensions come from roosters that are genetically bred and raised for their plumage. As the Associated Press reports, in most cases, the birds (whose feathers where harvested only for fishing lures until recently) do not survive the plucking. The roosters live about a year while their saddle feathers grow as long as possible. Then the animal is euthanized. To give you an example of the size of the massacre, Whiting Farms is harvesting about 1,500 birds a week for their feathers and still can’t keep up with its current orders.
The ridiculous trend was started by Steven Tyler, who I used to admire until previously, and is becoming a nationwide frenzy in the USA. Feather extensions are even used in dogs’ salons.
If you were ignorant of where and how your feather extensions came from, you can still trash them and advise your friends not to buy.
If you did know though, I am sorry to say that so-called “feather ladies” are in fact “feather b****es” from the moment they decide to base their welness onto another living creature’s misery.
Enough said.
SHAME.