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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;shellacjack, post: 4088935, member: 20192&quot;][USER=8289]@mmarco102[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>Dude, your deluding yourself continuing to use ivory = supporting the trade.</p><p>Your retort is to call me a tree hugger, say end of conversation (in the middle of a paragraph), and digress into childish name calling, great comprehensive skills there. </p><p>Yes I do think the current stocks of ivory should be , what will happen when they run out and we&#039;re still in the habit of using ivory? </p><p>Your using extreme comparisons that don&#039;t have any basis,</p><p>-cows are in a completely different situation to elephants, one is livestock the other an endangered species.</p><p>- I feel we should stop using ivory so I must want all ivory products destroyed, there&#039;s a difference between preserving history and perpetuating the practice.</p><p>-Wood is a managed material, or so it should be and I don&#039;t condone cutting down the last of our rainforests for rare hardwoods either, there are needs though, like you said houses, furniture, which is why we should be very selective and careful of what materials we choose to use, what we need to use, and what is ultimately for self indulgence.</p><p>Are you genuinely trying to rally meat eaters as your defence? </p><p>Traditions don&#039;t equate as an example to be followed, ivory was fashionable hence why it was used so extensively, not all pianos have ivory keys, its not even an essential part of the instrument.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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