i have never seen a dyed coral in person. why am i not surprised it is happening in the
areas where corals naturally live/grow. after all, there is plenty more where that came from
sorta thinking going on.
really no different when ladies hats were in style and they would hunt a bird down
mercilessly to get the feathers to make a silly hat look pretty. Fashion styles would
change next season and the hat was no longer desirable.
"Lacey Act - Feather Trade
The fashion of wearing bird feathers in women’s hats began in the court of Louis XVI of France when Marie Antoinette appeared in a headdress with feather plumes (Doughty 1975). The fashion gradually spread in Europe and later in the colonies of the United States. By 1850, the business of killing birds for the millinery trade was practiced on a large scale, involving the deaths of hundreds of thousands of birds in many parts of the world. Egrets were a prime target, especially birds in breeding plumage when their most elegant plumage was displayed. Hunters killed adult birds, leaving the chicks to die in the scorching sun. Sometimes feathers were pulled from wounded birds, which were left to die of exposure or starvation. Herons and other wading birds along the east coast and in the Everglades were slaughtered in huge numbers. Songbirds were also popular, and entire birds were stuffed and exhibited on the hats of Victorian women. The plumage of terns and gulls was commonly used, and entire breeding colonies numbering more than 10,000 birds were killed. One New York woman negotiated in 1884 with a Parisian millinery to deliver 40,000 or more bird skins; she hired gunners to kill as many terns as possible at ten cents a skin (Doughty 1975). "
Pardon my french but things like this get me stirred up...:mad2::furious::mtool:
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