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I got a cool looking salt shaker that looks like a crow and is made of buffalo horn. I'm fine with it sitting on my shelf but don't see myself using it for its intended purpose on my dining table.

If it's human

Lampshades made of human skin. How about no.

Mostly everything from an animal is gross. I still have some stuff like leather shoes or Merino Wool Underwear for hiking but that's only because I haven't found vailable alternatives.

Stuff I associate with prolonged suffering would be my threshold. I know the solemn nature of killing for food and survival. In that experience, limiting suffering is essential. It is an experience that often pushes me more towards veganism. Things that remind me of the failures to limit suffering in any being conjure great melancholic empathy that I would struggle to ameliorate.

I bought a pretty shell necklace in Samoa, and then asked the seller what shells it was made from.

He said... "Dolphin's teeth."

When I reeled back in horror, he chuckled and said, "Yum yum."

I have various bits of jewellery made from beef bone, I happily wear leather, but there was something intimate about teeth that made it gross, plus eating dolphins, argh.

I dislike things where taxidermied animals parts are used for something because it looks weird. Like animal legs and feet for tables. Basically if it makes me think the animal suffered I dislike it.

Yes I eat meat and wear leather and other stuff from animals that often makes them suffer, but I also spent a large amount of time on grandpa's farm and the idea that ethical use of animals can exist overrides my knowledge that they are often abused in my day to day decision making.

I think learning about Nazis making human skin stuff out of their holocaust victims put me off for things made out of human parts. Like bone is bone, but my first knowledge of human parts being used was Nazi ahit. Didn't find out about the religious human remains stuff till later.

None? Owning a mummy would be dope, although the storage and care required wouldn't be.

I don't mind it as long as it wasn't part of their body, like their skull. That does freak me out.

No limits, but no interest, either.