Help Stop Lord and Taylor from Selling Fur
Lord
and Taylor's flagship store in New York City is considering opening a fur department,
and your help is need to keep this from happening. Its parent company, The May
Company, established an anti-fur department policy close to ten years ago. Opening
one fur department could lead to similar departments in other Lord and Taylor
locations and other department stores owned by The May Company, including Hecht's,
Filene's, and Robinsons May.
Based on the prohibition of tsa'ar
ba'alei chayim (cruelty to animals), Rabbi Haim Dovid Halevy, Sephardic Chief
Rabbi of Tel Aviv, issued a p'sak in March, 1992, prohibiting the manufacturing
and wearing of fur. He based his decision on an extensive research of the Torah,
the Talmud, and other authoritative texts. Animals caught in leghold traps or
raised in factory farm conditions suffer prolonged, excrutiating pain. A typical
fur coat requires the killing of 40 animals.
Please write
to the CEOs of Lord and Taylor and the May Company and as them to maintain their
anti-fur policy.
