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\"possumfurnipplewarmers.jpg\"On behalf of the just-past Earth Day, here’s a cause I think I can be enthusiastic about: possum fur G-strings<\/a> and nipple warmers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Zealand Eco-Fur (Eco Fur). Eco-Fur\u2122 is the trademark of New Zealand Nature Co. and Maruia Nature Catalogue. It applies to fur products from New Zealand using fur of the trichosurus vulpecula (commonly known as the brushtail possum). Eco-fur is about the protection of New Zealand Native Forests.
\nIntroduced into New Zealand about 150 years ago from Australia, the brushtail possum has multiplied now to over 70,000,000. With no predators, this pest has decimated huge tracts of New Zealand native forests eating 21,000 tons of vegetation nightly.
\nBoth bird life (including the Kiwi) and many unique types of trees are threatened with extinction because of the brushtail possum. This marsupial is only very distantly related to the American Opossum.
\nThe brushtail possum has a fur similar in quality to mink and colours range from silver to red brown to dark brown. Preservation of New Zealand Native Forests requires control of the possum population. All controls used in the past have had minimum impact. Poisoning of possums is an environmentally unacceptable way of control. Only through world wide marketing of possum fur products ( Eco-Fur products ) can this pest be safely controlled. Our Eco-Fur products are all of the highest professional standards.
\n[…] The use of New Zealand Eco Fur, (possum fur) is advocated by all New Zealand environmental groups including The Royal Forest & Bird Society, The Ecologic Foundation, and Greenpeace New Zealand.<\/p>\n

And you get to torque off PETA, too! There’s no downside!<\/p>\n

So … do it for the environment, ladies …<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On behalf of the just-past Earth Day, here’s a cause I think I can be enthusiastic about: possum fur G-strings and nipple warmers. New Zealand Eco-Fur (Eco Fur). 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