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Shannon Keith's Fur Exposé Film Skin Trade  By Kristen McFarland
on This Dish is Veg  Skin Trade, directed by Shannon Keith, is a
powerful documentary on the fur industry. The film begins with
the history of killing animals for profit, starting with Native
Americans selling skins to white fur traders, but makes it clear
that the modern fur industry is not anywhere close to the Native
American way of life. Native Americans passed their furs down
through generations. Among their reasons for fur were spiritual
and survival reasons, not fashion. The film contains interviews
with Native Americans, fashion designers (such as Todd Oldham)
and other celebrities (Rikki Rockett, Lacey Conner, the Barbi
Twins and more), and animal rights activists.  Intense footage
of the brutal killing of animals for the fur industry is
juxtaposed against t