Fashion-motivated use of animals and plants

Skins, teeth, feathers, reptile shells, ivory and various other parts of animals have been used by humans as personal adornment since recorded history.

Examples are: the large dog that is abandoned when the owner moves into a smaller apartment or has a baby; peacock and parrot feathers plucked from the bird while alive or dead; living coral and shells collected to be used for jewellery and house decor; seeds and seed heads of plants collected and put to similar use; plants used as interior decor; tropical fish kept in aquaria.

1. Obsession with novelty

1. Negative effects of gastronomic fashions
2. Capture and use of wild animals as pets

1. Unwanted pet animals
2. Trade in animal products of endangered species
3. Tourist consumption of endangered plants and animals
4. Threatened urban trees
5. Theft of plants
6. Sexual manipulation of domestic animals and plants
7. Psychosocial deprivation of animals
8. Plant suffering
9. Killing of animals
10. Human use of animal by-products
11. Forced development
12. Commercial exploitation of wild animals
13. Animal trophy hunting

1. Displacement of ethics by aesthetics
2. Discrimination against non-human species

1. Use of medically suspect remedies
2. Threatened species of large urban trees
3. Misuse of animals for toxicological experiments
4. Infantilization of women