AR-News: (UK) RED TAPE HOLDS UP BAN ON FUR TRADE

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daily record

Apr 17 2004




CAMPAIGNERS are facing a race against time to ban the evil trade in cat and 
dog fur.
Euro MPs finally backed a ban on the imports of household pet skins last year 
following a lengthy campaign led by the Daily Record.
But despite winning the support of a majority of MEPs, the ban has been 
caught up in Euro red tape with less than a month before the European Parliament 
breaks for the May elections.
Scots Euro MP Struan Stevenson has hit out at the European Commission who he 
claims are trying to stall the ban for political reasons.
Our campaign highlighted the shocking trade in the furs of cats and dogs, 
which are brutally killed and skinned by furriers in China, Thailand and South 
Korea before being imported to Europe.
MP Stevenson said: 'It is now up to the Commission to draft the legislation 
and put it before the Council of Ministers who can then approve the ban.
'But, even although it would only take five minutes for them to write up the 
legislation proposal to go before the Council, they still haven't done it and 
it could all soon be too late.'
 







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rights in a world where non-humans have no rights at all. Until animals and nature 
have rights, none of us have any rights at all because without animals, 
ecosystems and nature's diversity, rights are meaningless. Humans are a group that 
was never very successful to begin with. Overly territorial, obsessed with 
trivialities, violent, petty, and completely lacking in empathy for other 
species. The world would be a much nicer place without us." Captain Paul Watson 
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