City Council Speaker Corey Johnson wants to ban fur clothes for sale in the five boroughs of New York City, excepting used apparel and that “sourced exclusively from used fur” (how will Department of Consumer Affairs sleuths ever tell?) and, of course, fur worn for religious reasons (rest easy, Hasidim).
We don’t mind private citizens making a stink over mink, pounding the table over sable or putting a pox on fox. We get those who are revolted by wearing dead animal products. Hell, it’s respectable to live life as a vegan.
But it is rich indeed for city government in the name of animal rights to outright ban the sale of fur, an important piece of an important New York industry, while allowing sale, on a scale that dwarfs the fur industry, of cow leather and sheepskin (and no, the leather on your Chinese-made shoe is not produced under conditions regulated by federal authorities).
And while allowing sale by the tons, in supermarkets and restaurants, of meat and eggs and dairy from animals that, we suspect — though no animals were interviewed in the making of this editorial — would rather not be exploited. Including veal, which comes from calves.
The slope is slippery because, let’s be honest, lots of animals bleed on it.
Johnson and the Council enjoy the symbolism of a fur ban, but they wouldn’t dare go after the many other ways humans benefit from inexpensive and plentiful protein and, well, just plain tasty food. Would they?
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Please. Of course it is necessary to ban it. There is no reason in today’s world for wearing fur. Slippery slope my ass. People ought to be ashamed for wanting to wear it despite the terrible cruelty and conditions these poor animals suffer.
I really hate these kinds of arguments that do nothing but spin our wheels and maintain the status quo! At some point, hopefully, people will cut down on their voracious appetite for animal flesh, but let’s not wait until then to stop easier ways to prevent cruelty, such as fur that has no redeeming value at all in today’s world. It even looks trashy to my eyes.
We really are an illogical, irrational creature. We love to pride ourselves on how compassionate we are, but we are capable of such abject cruelty and insensitivity to non-human creatures! It’s shameful. Just keep metaphorically hitting ’em with the ugly pictures, and that should stop any rationalizations.
As for loss of jobs, people are laid off daily, and robotics will replace human workers, yet we only hear about the fur industry that ‘built this country’. Time to find new jobs.