ISRAEL HAS A CHANCE TO SET A GLOBAL PRECEDENCE BY BECOMING THE FIRST COUNTRY TO BAN FUR SALES, IMPORTS, EXPORTS AND FARMING

Fur farming is a cruel practice of breeding or raising certain types of animals for their fur, a campaign which international animal welfare charity FOUR PAWS is campaigning to end.

On the 2nd September 2010, Israel was set to vote on a bill to ban the use of fur and this has now been postponed.

A date has not yet been set for the next vote on the bill. If the ban is passed and comes into force, Israel would be setting a huge example to the world and be seen as a leader in compassion and kindness for animals.

Earlier this year, following a delay in to the bill, Israel came close to becoming the first ever country to ban the use of fur.

The fur industry has been lobbying hard against this ban, an industry responsible for poor welfare experienced by hundreds of millions of animals.

It was reported that from within the parliament say no bill in the last 15 years has attracted so much attention.

This ban would affect all farming and processing, imports and exports and sale of fur from all animal species.

Several countries have banned the production but not the trade of fur.

In the UK fur farming was banned in 2000, but since then UK imports of fur have increased and since 2008 sales of fur products have risen.

With a ban in production only and not in the trade, the demand for fur simply pushes its production to other countries where farmed fur is produced, China is thought to produce up to 80% of farmed fur.

There are many different legal positions on fur farming. Some countries have banned the trade in fur from only certain species excluding others.

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