[Avodah] Chief Rabbis Favor Fur Ban

[Gershon Seif]

<<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.>>

True. I suppose was thinking about things from the frum consumer's perspective and assumed it would directed at the shteimel manufactureres in Israel.

<<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.>>

I just read that most of the fur comes from asia where conditions are said to be very cruel to animals. That would explain things and also change this to an issue of halacha and not just lifnim m'shuras hadin.