Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: No More Chinese Beaver for Israel?…………
No More Chinese Beaver for Israel?…………
No more Beaver????
“Legislation was proposed amid a public outcry, and now former sex symbol Brigitte Bardot and singer Paul McCartney have joined the campaign to make Israel the world's first fur-free country. "I would like to thank you personally for your help and support promoting the law against the commerce of fur in Israel," the French actress-turned-animal-rights activist said in a letter to members of Israel's parliament, the Knesset. Meanwhile, the former Beatle, a vegetarian for many years, wrote on his Web site: "By banning the fur trade, Israel would be providing a moral lead to those countries and showing what can be done." ……… Ninety-five percent of the country's textile products, which include fur, are imported from China……… Wild fur represents about 15 percent of the world's trade in fur…....” Cheers mhg
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