NationStates

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:54 am**

I got the issue called "Hackles Raised Over Fur Clothes Debate". It was about using animal fur as clothing. Someone said "You can't mean that, surely?" snorts Sean Dragton, adjusting a hat made from real Dragonbird hide. he used a hat made of my national animal. My national animal is a PROTECTED bird specie. How can he use a hat made of Dragonbirds if the specie is protected?

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:19 am**

Could it be illegally poached/purchased clothes?
Or it could have been made before the protections came into place?
Or maybe it was a Dragonbird killed in another nation?

There are lots of ways in which a person may acquire the hides of a protected species.

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:31 am**

I don't think there is an issue that makes your national animal a protected species. There's an issue about eating it (which you have had, but didn't ban eating @@ANIMAL@@), but not protecting it.

Posted: **Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:05 am**

Luna Amore wrote:I don't think there is an issue that makes your national animal a protected species. There's an issue about eating it (which you have had, but didn't ban eating @@ANIMAL@@), but not protecting it.

That's actually interesting. Maybe someone should make one.

Posted: **Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:54 am**

Luna Amore wrote:I don't think there is an issue that makes your national animal a protected species. There's an issue about eating it (which you have had, but didn't ban eating @@ANIMAL@@), but not protecting it.

There is.

Posted: **Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:11 am**

Goddess Relief Office wrote:
Luna Amore wrote:I don't think there is an issue that makes your national animal a protected species. There's an issue about eating it (which you have had, but didn't ban eating @@ANIMAL@@), but not protecting it.

There is.

#009: @@ANIMAL@@ On The Dinner Table?
1. "The fact is, the @@ANIMAL@@ population is out of control," says Beef-Based Agriculture spokesperson Jamil Johnson. "We have to do something about them anyway, so why not market them as tasty snacks? We could have @@ANIMAL@@ kebabs, @@ANIMAL@@ pies, @@ANIMAL@@ -on-a-sticks--the possibilities are endless! Let's not pass up this golden opportunity to provide a feast, if you will, for our economy."
Result: @@ANIMAL@@ are considered a delicacy.

2. "I agree that something needs to be done about @@ANIMAL@@ over-population," says random passer-by Colin Falopian, "but eating them? That's kind of gross. Let's just shoot the ones we have to and shovel their bodies into ditches like normal."
Result: a nation-wide cull of @@ANIMAL@@s is in effect.

3. "I am shocked and appalled!" declared SPCA President Wil Winters. "If anyone needs to be culled, it's us humans. The @@ANIMAL@@ were here first, remember? We need to take this as a sign to get our industry--agriculture in particular--to back off. The @@ANIMAL@@ is part of what makes @@NAME@@ a great nation!"
Result: the @@ANIMAL@@ is a protected species

I never knew that. Never chose option 3 so I wouldn't have known. Thank you very much. :hug: