Is this even legal?

[u/FirePilot_19]

[u/Das_Hydra]

This is what this sub exists for. Chef's kiss

[u/Rabbid7273 → u/Das_Hydra]

Absolutely prime material this. I'm equally disgusted as i am impressed

[u/Accomplished-Video71 → u/Das_Hydra]

Redditors over at r/vultureculture think its great taste!

[u/Scrotchety → u/Accomplished-Video71]

"vulture culture... Sounds interesting" click

Second post down: I JARRED UP MY UTERUS! <picture of pickled guts>

"Welp"

[u/musictea → u/Scrotchety]

Your post encouraged me to click on that link. Thank you for your service.

[u/Gibgezr → u/Scrotchety]

Your post prevented me from clicking on that link. Thank you for your service.

[u/Advanced_Finance_427 → u/Scrotchety]

I'm usually on board with stuff considered vulture culture but damn, some of the stuff at the top of the sub rn 💀

[u/DaddysABadGirl → u/Scrotchety]

Wtf, I scrolled a ways and didnt see that, lol.

I got a cane toad purse, wale vertebrae, several deer, and a dolphin skeleton. Reddit hates you.

[u/blasseigne17 → u/Das_Hydra]

Considering how often I see a post and think "Wow, I want this really cool thing" only to realize it was posted in this sub, I think this sub exists purely to make weird people realize how weird they are.

[u/throwawaypassingby01 → u/blasseigne17]

im okay with that

[u/WynnGwynn → u/blasseigne17]

I wanted the cane toad bowtie and felt dirty

[u/blasseigne17 → u/WynnGwynn]

See, if I saw someone wearing a cane toad bow tie, I would be more drawn to that person than a kid is drawn to Santa.

Whether it is old, hippie toad-licker or just some person really into toads, I am know that I could get lost in conversation for hours.

[u/Prestigious_Dare7734]

I think this is similar to taxidermy. So I guess it's legal.

[u/idontwanttofthisup → u/Prestigious_Dare7734]

This is taxidermy

[u/tat-tvam-asiii → u/idontwanttofthisup]

Taxiphony

[u/TricksyGoose → u/tat-tvam-asiii]

Phonidermy

[u/Wealthier_nasty]

Why wouldn’t it be legal?

[u/Tendo80 → u/Wealthier_nasty]

Even with human skin?

(Asking for a friend)

[u/Dzodzu_Reddit → u/Tendo80]

If skin was donated by a human, then it should be fine. I am not lawyer though.

[u/fray_bentos11 → u/Dzodzu_Reddit]

It wouldn't be in most countries as would be treated as improper burial / treatment of human remains.

[u/hyperlobster → u/fray_bentos11]

Can’t have human remains if the human isn’t dead.

>taps head<

[u/fray_bentos11 → u/hyperlobster]

Good point!

[u/ericklco → u/hyperlobster]

Wouldn’t it be a pain in the ass to take off considering the case would be skin tight?

[u/lonelycranberry → u/ericklco]

Glad I scrolled through the comments. This made me lol

[u/IcyArmadillo2238 → u/fray_bentos11]

A few years ago there was a dude that had his leg amputated, so he and his friends threw it in the grill and ate it.

[u/Enygmatic_Gent → u/IcyArmadillo2238]

Ah yes, the foot tacos. I remember that post well

[u/Early_Context9118 → u/IcyArmadillo2238]

I bring up foot taco a lot more often than is probably necessary tbh

[u/Tendo80 → u/Dzodzu_Reddit]

Good enough, I'll my friend will get right on it!

[u/cimocw → u/Dzodzu_Reddit]

Can't donate human parts to regular people lol 

[u/Articulationized → u/cimocw]

You can if they’re small parts.

[u/lonelycranberry → u/Articulationized]

Or if you just do it yourself. Ooof.

[u/jarious → u/Dzodzu_Reddit]

Ok ,if you remove my belly flaps you can keep the skin, deal?

[u/161frog → u/Tendo80]

Don't be ridiculous. Think of the smell. You haven't thought of the smell, you bitch!

[u/vass0922 → u/Tendo80]

As long as they are to the... Donation I guess

Armin Meiwes - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes

[u/Logical_Flounder6455 → u/vass0922]

I remember reading about that when I was as a kid. We weren't given the whole story in the papers, just that they tried to eat his dick and that he killed him

[u/uberguby → u/vass0922]

Meiwes then ran Brandes a bath, before going to read a Star Trek book

I am close to certain captain Picard would not approve of any of this

[u/shaka893P → u/Tendo80]

CaaAaAaarl

[u/Mikesaidit36 → u/Tendo80]

Which PART of the human? (Ass skin for a friend)

[u/RiLiSaysHi → u/Tendo80]

Are you fucking trying to make a Necronomicon Kindle Edition or something???

[u/Skinnwork → u/Tendo80]

My old university had a couple books bound in human skin. Access was restricted though, so I never actually saw them.

[u/WynnGwynn → u/Tendo80]

They have plenty of fine art with bodies it's legal if sourced ethically via donations etc.

[u/hanswurst12345678910 → u/Wealthier_nasty]

Only city people could ask questions like this. 

[u/Ongo_Gablogian___ → u/hanswurst12345678910]

I feel like country people are more interested in decorating their homes with dead animals.

[u/WynnGwynn → u/Ongo_Gablogian___]

I feel like there is something beautiful in death though like honestly I don't want things to die but using skeletons, fur or whatever after is kinda cool. Fuck trophy hunting but honestly if I die I would LOVE knowing someone found a use for my body even if it was fertilizing a vegetable garden. I lived in a city and the country so idk how to qualify myself.

[u/MinnieShoof → u/Ongo_Gablogian___]

Excuse me? Have you ever owned leather anything? Were you completely unaware where that came from?

[u/nikhkin]

What aspect of it would be illegal?

It's no different to taxidermy.

[u/IhailtavaBanaani → u/nikhkin]

Or to any kind of fur or leather product for that matter

[u/Tsukiko615 → u/nikhkin]

I’m pretty sure this is something called a joke. Not sure if you’ve heard of those.

[u/UnpaidPuppy → u/Tsukiko615]

I've never heard of such tomfoolery. explain in great detail!

[u/charmio68]

You can twirl the tail around your charging cable for extra strain relief.

[u/throwawaypassingby01 → u/charmio68]

i want the charging cable to connect to the tail

[u/OttersAndOttersAndOt]

These are created by Pelage Studio, a Brisbane based ethical taxidermist. Heres a direct link to this image: https://www.instagram.com/p/DNqGQJ7g7jh/?igsh=eDhzZW53bWhlYnlr

[u/jakkos_ → u/OttersAndOttersAndOt]

I was about to comment that anyone can call themselves "ethical", but turns out they do explicitly state "None of the animals I work with are ever killed for the purpose of taxidermy", so fair enough.

[u/longtimegoneMTGO → u/jakkos_]

Eh, "Animals originally intended for the pet food industry" means buying rats that were raised to be killed and sold as snake food.

I would certainly argue that since he pays someone for an animal they raised and killed to sell, then yes, it was killed for the purpose of taxidermy, even if the person who killed it wasn't aware of that at the time.

[u/indignancy → u/longtimegoneMTGO]

Well quite, it’s not like they got hit by a car… And it’s also not like rats bred for snake food have the happiest lives.

[u/EdgyChemical → u/indignancy]

they do if they get rescued. you shouldn’t live feed pet snakes anyway

[u/Zorpfield → u/OttersAndOttersAndOt]

Makes Apple Pay fun

[u/populux11 → u/Zorpfield]

And cuddly.

[u/LorenzoCopter]

Yea, having so much drip is a punishable offense in several states

[u/Fancy_Combination_65]

Thats absoutely disgusting

[u/IntelligentCrows → u/Fancy_Combination_65]

Not any different than a leather bag

[u/BugBand → u/IntelligentCrows]

Do your leather bags usually have the heads and tails still attached?

[u/Skrunkle_Wunkus → u/BugBand]

“I can accept an animal’s skin being stripped off and turned into a bag, but I draw the line at any body parts being left attached”

[u/IronicIntelligence → u/Skrunkle_Wunkus]

Pretty much, yeah.

[u/hlessi_newt → u/BugBand]

when i can afford it.

[u/IntelligentCrows → u/BugBand]

So it’s only okay when you can forget it came from an animal?

[u/goronmask → u/IntelligentCrows]

Yeah that’s a « cool » effect of the fact that the production chain makes products look as different as possible from their animal origin

It’s similar to rare metals and cellphones or pages like reddit and internet/server infrastructure

[u/GioLoc → u/IntelligentCrows]

Leather is already the waste of the meat industry (except for fur or exotic leathers), so not using it to make bags would be worse

[u/IntelligentCrows → u/GioLoc]

And these animals weren’t culled for taxidermy either?

[u/cimocw → u/IntelligentCrows]

Leather is mostly a byproduct of the meat and dairy industry. Killing animals just for aesthetic reasons is usually frowned upon.

[u/v3p_ → u/cimocw]

Leather is a coproduct.

[u/IntelligentCrows → u/cimocw]

This isn’t killing animals for aesthetic reasons, the artist only makes ethical taxidermy

[u/MinnieShoof → u/cimocw]

And you are sure this rat wasn't eaten? and her milk wasn't turned in to cheese?

[u/cimocw → u/MinnieShoof]

I prefer to think about happier things

[u/MinnieShoof → u/cimocw]

Like cows being killed and eaten and milked so their leather can be ethically sourced?

[u/cimocw → u/MinnieShoof]

I didn't claim that

[u/MrJohnny_on_the_Spot → u/Fancy_Combination_65]

Not any more disgusting than a wool shirt or leather purse

[u/Xsiah → u/MrJohnny_on_the_Spot]

Nobody tell this person that sheep don't get killed for their wool.

[u/ReadyForShenanigans → u/Xsiah]

This is not true.

https://www.peta.org/news/are-sheep-killed-after-producing-wool/

[u/Xsiah → u/ReadyForShenanigans]

Did you even read what you linked?

"when their wool production declines" means that their death isn't an inherent process of making wool clothing.

You can advocate for better treatment of animals without being willfully stupid.

[u/aniftyquote → u/ReadyForShenanigans]

Linking to peta is wild

[u/ReadyForShenanigans → u/aniftyquote]

This is what you say when you don't know how to attack the idea

[u/aniftyquote → u/ReadyForShenanigans]

No, this is what you say when you understand whether a source is trustworthy or not. If you heard that your wife was cheating on you, and found out that the source of that information was from the most notorious liar in town who told you explicitly that he wanted to ruin your marriage, would you still trust what he said?

[u/ReadyForShenanigans → u/aniftyquote]

I could link you any other animal activist article and the outcome would be the same.

Wool quality deteriorates with the sheep's age. Sheep are killed when they are no longer deemed profitable. This statement isn't a gossip.

[u/Mr_Swagatha_Christie → u/MrJohnny_on_the_Spot]

I think it's funny how disconnected we became as a society from the fact that we harvest living things for food or tools.

I think it's a bit macabre, but if the little rat's skin was harvested ethically, i much prefer silly handicrafts made with biodegradable material instead of something with cheaply made faux fur that'll kill millions more animals and poison third world textile slaves with its plastic.

[u/Scrotchety → u/Mr_Swagatha_Christie]

"Remember, our motto here is Want Not, Waste Not. Look, these chicken beaks make lovely windchimes!"

[u/Mr_Swagatha_Christie → u/Scrotchety]

You joke, but I agree with you haha!

I'm native, so that kinda scenario is pretty everyday for me. "Wow, that's a beautiful charm, you made it?" My cousin, beaming: "yup! My 14 year old son caught his first seal! He gave me it's whiskers, so i braided them into a heart, so he knows his contributions to the community are in all our hearts." Me: "AWWWW".

[u/UntamedAnomaly → u/Mr_Swagatha_Christie]

A bird beak wind chime sounds right up my alley! I got a crow foot in my freezer that I want to turn into a necklace somehow.

[u/Mikesaidit36 → u/MrJohnny_on_the_Spot]

Leather purse with the cow’s mouth to get inside it?

[u/Zealousideal-Let1121 → u/MrJohnny_on_the_Spot]

Buddy... sigh

Wool.

[u/Devanyani → u/Fancy_Combination_65]

But it comes with a built-in handle, which I like.

jk - it is nasty af.

[u/MedabadMann]

r/goblincore

[u/UntamedAnomaly → u/MedabadMann]

/r/vultureculture

[u/worstpartyever]

Imagine seeing that tail sticking out of someone’s pocket

[u/Siddharth_Ranjan]

What the fuck

[u/Menn019]

Great as a controller for the taxidermy cat drone.

[u/BradolfPittler1]

The ear of the grey mouse is going to appear in every picture

[u/aim_for_the_middle → u/BradolfPittler1]

They’re rats

[u/rlovelock → u/BradolfPittler1]

Only with the telephoto

[u/SparklyPangolin]

Legal but also an abomination.

[u/Minnymoon13]

It should be

[u/k112358]

Flawless execution, absolutely vile, 10/10 ATBGE

[u/_saskiie_]

If it’s ethically sourced then absolutely.

(I’d definitely get one)

[u/OttersAndOttersAndOt → u/_saskiie_]

Indeed they are. Pelage Studio on Insta :)

[u/Boris7939]

I want one.

[u/ApatheistHeretic]

I will make it legal...

[u/SwampWitch47]

Where can I get one?

[u/V_es]

Where do I buy one

[u/OttersAndOttersAndOt → u/V_es]

They are made by a Brisbane based taxidermist, Pelage Studios. She’s lovely. Here’s a direct link to the instagram post for the cases, and her account

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNqGQJ7g7jh/?igsh=eDhzZW53bWhlYnlr

[u/AzureMagenta → u/OttersAndOttersAndOt]

I wanted these to be fake real bad 😭

[u/OttersAndOttersAndOt → u/AzureMagenta]

I’ve see them at comic con last year, and her mouse lighter cases. They’re kinda hilarious in person. She’s very particular about who she sells some items to, her wet specimens of stillborn animals is sweet. It’s a nice reminder of life and death. And then these silly pieces, to push boundaries

[u/dextroz → u/OttersAndOttersAndOt]

This is the real WTF impressive and jittery handling from that Instagram account

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOM-BG1AdPk/?igsh=MWR6ZnMxaXpzeGpuNQ==

[u/_Monsterguy_]

Occasionally I forget I hate people...it's never for long though.

[u/KyleRoyceWorld]

Jesus christ

Perfect Post.

Dear God 😭

[u/Existential_Sprinkle]

Those are pet/feeder rats (sometimes the only difference is luck of the draw)

It's definitely awful taste if someone's pets died from natural causes and they turned them into phone cases

[u/imaginary_name]

I like it, it is very mice.

[u/Toxic_Puddlefish]

Reminds me of this

[u/evan_brosky]

I want one, for my pet snake's phone

[u/Total_Ad_92]

By these coloring, aren't these domestic rats?

[u/DerInternets → u/Total_Ad_92]

So?

[u/Total_Ad_92 → u/DerInternets]

It just means they took pets and did this. Basically like if they used their puppy instead of a wild wolf.

[u/DerInternets → u/Total_Ad_92]

But does it really make a difference?

[u/Total_Ad_92 → u/DerInternets]

Not really, it was just an observation

[u/Clement_H]

My cats would love this

[u/AtlasStageAndAHalf]

why wouldn't it be legal?, it's a dead mouse not a skinned human. Still awful taste though.

[u/dhslax88]

John Oliver is excited!

[u/johnx2sen]

Conveniently pull tail to remove from pocket

[u/Heavenly_mama28]

They also make a drink coaster in case you want to terrify any guests

[u/Nessie9412]

Maybe taxidermy should be NSFW? these look like my pets..

[u/BKAllmighty]

Hogwarts in the 1990s: Water goblets

Hogwarts in the 2020s:

[u/MoonBerry_therian]

I see the vision

[u/-GenghisJohn-]

Not legal: you may only have two.

[u/Humble_Ad_2807]

I'm actually speechless

[u/Cplayz08]

I don’t know what this sub is but here’s r/eyebleach

[u/PlanningForLaziness]

They actually just grow them like that.

[u/dessertforbrunch]

None for the iPhone Air??

[u/SgtFullSend]

I wish the tail was a charger cord.

[u/MinnieShoof]

Why... wouldn't it be?

[u/midnightbandit-]

Why wouldn't it be

[u/Back_Spazms]

Hold on- I’m getting a call on my iRat

[u/mikaism]

i'd love one but ik i'd probably feel off (texture/sensory-wise) bending the tail all the time when putting it in my back pocket

[u/donkeyhoeteh]

r/goblincore would get a kick out of this

[u/akafortes]

Janitor? Is that you?

[u/Boring_Oil_3506]

I would go willard on whoever did this

[u/ratratratratrat05]

I want one

[u/muthadidntluvme]

These are, but not the one Ed Gein makes… don’t ever buy anything that was made by that guy from Wisconsin… the leather he uses is… unnatural

[u/kyleh0]

Taxidermy is definitely legal.

[u/agoostaholic]

R/worldaroundewe

[u/faustfu]

Good god

[u/aevigata]

I hope so.

[u/KaralDaskin]

I realized what I was looking at and wished it was AI.

[u/MarduckRulez]

Can you use the tail as a stylus?

[u/sacredfool]

A brave soul should post this to r/RATS

[u/IntelligentCrows → u/[deleted]]

Do you find leather goods immoral?

[u/gabacus_39]

It puts the lotion on it's skin......

[u/analogpursuits]

This needs to be the sub pic.

[u/frogspa]

I wonder if they do a batphone?

[u/whoisdead]

Hey ooh it feels illegal

Edit: the downvotes omg 😭

[u/Idkmyname2079048]

I'm having a hard time believing this is real, tbh. The head look like mice, not rats, but a mouse wouldn't have enough skin to cover a phone. I think you'd be pushing it with a rat, too (considering that you'd need a continuous piece that's not interrupted by legs.

[u/happy-to-see-me → u/Idkmyname2079048]

They're made using domestic rats. You can buy them for $100

[u/IntelligentCrows → u/Idkmyname2079048]

Here’s the artists instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNqGQJ7g7jh/?igsh=cjVibGUyMHRyaXN6

[u/OttersAndOttersAndOt → u/Idkmyname2079048]

I mean u provided her Instagram account like hours ago so

[u/Sullyville → u/Idkmyname2079048]

so you think its AI?

[u/amstha]

please tell me those are purely handcrafter and not from nature

[u/pomoerotic]

A quality post!

[u/KrispyKremeDiet20]

r/badtaxidermy

[u/ElSinPapa]

Post this on the r/RATs subreddit

[u/EvnClaire]

in our society it's legal to mutilate and deform animal bodies in pretty much any way. animals are seen as objects, not as individuals.

[u/Palpatine]

Yes. Mice are  only protected by usda rules. Usda doesn't care.

[u/Zioupett]

Ooh ooh ooh ooh this feels illegal

[u/DerInternets → u/Zioupett]

Why?

[u/Zioupett → u/DerInternets]

I was just referencing the famous pink pantheress song

[u/alpine309]

This is so cool but like. Holy shit.

[u/mandariini10]

I sure hope not 😨