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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Marni Alpaca Tote, Handbag of the Day]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</guid><description><![CDATA[Real or fake,either way it's horrible.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Valerie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 23rd 2009 6:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Marni Alpaca Tote, Handbag of the Day]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</guid><description><![CDATA[Is this skinned Alapaca, or trimmed alapaca hair?<br><br>If it's the first, then someone is going to hell. Go do a google image search for Alpaca and then come back and look at this bag. $2,500 to show that you have no soul. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[GPR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 23rd 2009 10:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Marni Alpaca Tote, Handbag of the Day]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</guid><description><![CDATA[If the Alpaca was being "harvested" for other things, then it's nice to see the skin is not being wasted. If so, then the only crime would be to not use every bit of the animal.<br><br>Killing them just for fur on the other hand, and not using the entire animal is like trophy hunters of yore, and not at all in good taste.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[verdegrrl]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 23rd 2009 10:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Marni Alpaca Tote, Handbag of the Day]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</guid><description><![CDATA[GPR: It's skinned alpaca. Trimmed alpaca hair can only be spun into thread and made into sweaters, etc.<br><br>Alpaca breeders will tell you that alpacas are too valuable to be killed for their fur, and fur products are from "natural attrition of the herd." How truthful is that, I don't know.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 24th 2009 5:48AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Marni Alpaca Tote, Handbag of the Day]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</guid><description><![CDATA[GPR: It's skinned alpaca. Trimmed alpaca hair can only be spun into thread and made into sweaters, etc.<br><br>Alpaca breeders will tell you that alpacas are too valuable to be killed for their fur, and fur products are from "natural attrition of the herd." How truthful is that, I don't know.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 24th 2009 5:49AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Marni Alpaca Tote, Handbag of the Day]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</guid><description><![CDATA[GPR: It's skinned alpaca. Trimmed alpaca hair can only be spun into thread and made into sweaters, etc.<br><br>Alpaca breeders will tell you that alpacas are too valuable to be killed for their fur, and fur products are from "natural attrition of the herd." How truthful is that, I don't know.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 24th 2009 5:51AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Marni Alpaca Tote, Handbag of the Day]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</guid><description><![CDATA[Bryan, you may be on to something. A quick look via google at past results from an Alpaca auction, show animals selling in $12,000 to $30,000 range. A basic breeding Alpaca is at least $5,000. The nicer the fur, the more expensive. Seems highly unlikely they would just slaughter them for a single purpose since they aren't really that large from the standpoint of using the hide for bags.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[verdegrrl]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 24th 2009 12:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Marni Alpaca Tote, Handbag of the Day]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</guid><description><![CDATA[As an alpaca breeder, I will tell you that they are NEVER (in the USA) killed for their hide.  However, in South America, the farmers are very poor, and cannot provide good healthcare:  hence, they lose 50% of their crias (babies), and do harvest them for food and hides.    Sadly, even in the USA, animals do die, and I do hope that other owners are not wasting their valuable skin.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 24th 2009 4:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Marni Alpaca Tote, Handbag of the Day]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2009/08/23/marni-alpaca-tote-handbag-of-the-day/</guid><description><![CDATA[Thanks for chiming in!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[verdegrrl]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 24th 2009 7:17PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
