{"id":761610,"date":"2020-10-06T07:20:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T11:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=761610"},"modified":"2020-10-06T07:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T11:20:39","slug":"victory-israel-becomes-first-country-to-ban-immoral-animal-fur-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=761610","title":{"rendered":"VICTORY: Israel becomes first country to ban &#8216;immoral&#8217; animal fur trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Announcing plans for new law, Israel's environmental protection minister Gila Gamliel said the use of skin and fur for the fashion industry was immoral.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BBC NEWS:<\/strong> Israel says it intends to ban the buying and selling of animal furs, apart from in specially approved cases, making it the first country to do so&#8230; Until now, only a handful of cities &#8211; in the US, and S\u00e3o Paulo in Brazil &#8211; have banned the sale of all animal fur&#8230; Anyone found breaking the law in Israel will face a fine of up to $22,000 (18,500 euros; \u00a317,000) or a year in prison&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Announcing plans for new regulations, environmental protection minister Gila Gamliel said the use of skin and fur for the fashion industry was &#8220;immoral&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;The fur industry causes the killing of hundreds of millions of animals around the world, and involves indescribable cruelty and suffering,&#8221; said Ms Gamliel. &#8220;Utilising the skin and fur of wildlife for the fashion industry is immoral&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her ministry said future permits would only be considered under certain, limited criteria&#8230; The exemption is likely to apply to Israel&#8217;s sizeable ultra-Orthodox community, among whom many of the men wear large round fur hats called shtreimels, believed to have originated as a custom in Eastern Europe. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-54418334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dw7Ns2gBSTk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS: Israel says it intends to ban the buying and selling of animal furs, apart from in specially approved cases, making it the first country to do so&#8230; Until now, only a handful of cities &#8211; in the US, and S\u00e3o Paulo in Brazil &#8211; have banned the sale of all animal fur&#8230; Anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":761611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,22,23,25],"tags":[27,28,30,31,35],"class_list":["post-761610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-morality","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=761610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761612,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761610\/revisions\/761612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/761611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}