[Avodah] Chief Rabbis Favor Fur Ban

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 07:34:07AM -0800, Gershon Seif wrote:
: 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?

Why would you think CRs Yonah Metzger and Shelomo Amar are speaking
about shtreimelach? There is no mention of them in the A-7 story, nor
would too many of the people who follow their pesaqim wear shtremelach.

The only difference I can see from the NbY's case is the quality of
vinyl streimelach. But I agree in a failure to follow how this is really
a halachic tzaar baalei chaim (TBC) issue.

But, to see what RYM actually is quoted as saying:
: 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."

RYM's argument appears to be more about a requirement for a mamlekhes
kohanim be further lifnim mishuras hadin than our "qehillah". Not that
it would actually be TBC mei'iqar hadin.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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