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Fur Sale Event Draws Four Protestors

A pop-up shop selling discount furs drew more than just potential customers, a group of four protesters stood outside with signs declaring ‘tzaar baalei chaim’ and heckled some shoppers.

The shop opened for just one day in the Mimulo flower shop on Albany Avenue and offered discounted fur for sale. This drew the ire of some four protestors who braved the freezing weather and stood outside the store and held up signs.

At one point the group heckled passersby and blocked the sidewalk, but a security guard hired for the sale asked the protestors to step back and they did.

After two hours the protesters numbers thinned out and eventually gave up when no one paid them any heed.

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20 Comments

  • Hypocrite

    I eat meat and would wear fur in extreme cold, but if you ever saw the way they rip the fur off the animals while they’re still alive (so that the fur stays nice and shiny) it’s hard to argue that it isn’t tzar balei chaim, and against my understanding of halacha. It’s HORRIBLE what they do to the poor animals. Fur as fashion is sick.

    • Milhouse

      Then your understanding of halacha is faulty. It is explicitly permitted to rip a feather from a living bird, just because you want it for a pen. Nobody could actually bring themselves to do something so cruel, but the halacha explicitly permits it.

  • If they

    If they’re sooo concerned about Tzaar Balei Chaim maybe let them protest animal rights somewhere else if the animals already dead it’s dead ! Sobnobpoint in protesting over dead bear skin !

  • Skver

    Let them go 2 Williamsburg & Kiryat Yoel & stand outside the shtreimel sellers & protest over there, I’m sure they would get a very warm welcome.

    • Like what?

      Which materials beat natural fur, down wool or leather, all of which which come from animals?

      The synthetic stuff is cheap garbage. It’s the fast-food of the fabric industry.

      Enjoy your cotton-polyester coat. I’ll enjoy my fur coat and down blanket.

  • Yisroel

    Just so people know, this is where fur comes from:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxVwsA2MLWA

    The fur isn’t the byproduct of meat production. And it certainly doesn’t provide us with better warmth than modern day clothing.

    There have even been great Rabbis in EY who have forbidden fur shtreimels for this exact reason.

    Just because these protesters might be reform Liberals, that doesn’t mean they are necessarily wrong on this one.

    • Milhouse

      There are no “great Rabbis in EY who have forbidden fur shtreimels for this exact reason”. Those who have boycotted fur shtreimels were concerned only about the price.

  • hmmmm

    do we really need to use chickens for kapores since we have better materials like money for kappores? Just wondering

  • keep your comments to yourself

    People are entitled to their opinion without imposing it on others. Are all protesters vegan? Well some people cannot go vegan. Some people need to eat meat and don’t tell me you can get iron from other sources as well. Some cannot eat green vegetables. So live and let others live, too.
    Btw, pay attention. It seems that one of the protesters are wearing suede boots?

  • AT

    I would say to them “GET A LIFE”.
    i agree with #1, that animals are treated so inhumanely, and the Torah does talk about it, but I can’t imagine how these people are looking to pick on Jews for it. I mean, if they want to help the world, then they should go to a hospital or a nursing home and make a person who is sick, to be happy….oh, wait, that might not be “cool”.
    Well, if any of you lost souls are reading this (because people with personality disorders love to see reactions to what they do) then just know that you can really make a difference by doing something which will really create change, and help another person in distress.
    It noble to help that animals should not suffer, but really, just think about it. It is really noble to help human beings as well, there are many who are suffering. G-d helps you to find ways to help, if you are looking for it. Just remember “whats popular is not always right, and whats right is not always popular

  • killing animals

    Do u know how much those animals suffer when they kill them, it’s horrible the way they kill them just 4 u 2 look good & that u have $$$. Those poor animals what they go through. Maybe that is the reason y the rebbe didn’t go like the Polisheh Ungarisheh Rebbes & where a Shtreimel

    • Milhouse

      No, that is not the reason, and you know it very well.

      Why do you think Hashem made these creatures in the first place, if not that people should wear their fur?

  • What about the hunting industry

    Let them take their protests there. Why do they have to bother us.

  • Shreimels

    I really love those beautiful fur shteimels u c in williamsburg, it’s so jewish. I wish lubavitch would wear it & the bekesheh with the white socks y didn’t the rebbe go this way ? Y not the real chareidisheh chassidisheh levish, the hat is so moden. Does any1 know y the Rebbe didn’t continue to go like the previous Rebbe & wear the tall shtreimel called a kolpik

    • Milhouse

      For the same reason he didn’t sit at the head of the table; he never officially took on the nesius, and always regarded the Frierdiker Rebbe as still being the real rebbe, and himself as just being a sort of secretary or assistant. That’s why he took everything to the Ohel, and he came back with answers and decisions.

      Even the mivtzoim were announced after a visit to the Ohel, and the Rebbe implied that they were not his own idea.