n to hear more about the moral outrage of killing roosters than would about how cool the fashion trend actually was.
It really wasn't a fair fight because those must upset are not the animal rights activists, but the fly fisherman who need to kill roosters for hobby as opposed to fashion. Yes it's true that the activists will eventually kill the Feather Hair Extension craze but at the moment the debate boils down to nothing more than supply and demand economics than the welfare of a bunch of "cocks".
It turns out that teenagers and hairstylists are rushing every fly fishing outpost in America trying to get their hands on the few remaining rooster saddles left in order to either jam them in someones head or sell wholesale them to the beauty industry. Stars like Jennifer Love Hewitt, Selena Gomez and the lovely Steven Tyler have brought the feather hair extension craze into the mainstream but I doubt they have any idea what needs to happen in order to get these feathers from bird to head.
It takes about a year for a rooster to grow the feathers which can only be harvested by slaughtering the bird. It's no worse really than what they do at KFC but the fact that it is being done in the name of fashion has raised the interest of animal lovers everywhere. The fisherman are perhaps better suited recipients of the feathers because they consume them with much less frequency and have done so for decades without much fuss but the simple fact that they can no longer find sufficient feathers to practice their craft as summer fly fishing season kicks in is what really has gotten them angry.
Some feather hair extensions are selling to dopey teens on Ebay for several hundred dollars and the suppliers, although nearly completely devoid of inventory, have to walk a fine line between short term riches and long term sustainability. After all, we are dealing with a fashion trend here and when it dies, angry fishermen will be the only customer base for these cock farmers.
So it appears that as the animal rights activists bring attention to the slaughtering of birds for vanity, they will actually be helping the cause of the fisherman who need to slaughter the birds so they can slaughter some fish for hobby. Hmmmm!
