[Avodah] Chief Rabbis Favor Fur Ban

[Gershon Seif]

While it's true that we can't hunt for pleasure, doesn't the Noda B'Yehuda say that where it involves hunting to provide for human needs it is permitted even though the animal will suffer? Are we no longer permitted to wear shoes, belts and gloves?

Or is tis new psak a reaction to some inside info indicating the animals killed for shtreimels are being tortured and they are the exception?

<<http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/181175
Chief Rabbis Favor Fur Ban
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Rabbi Metzger writes that "it is our obligation to
prevent cruelty to animals and to be a light to the nations in rejecting
the use of products that were made as a result of the suffering of
animals.">>