Decades before gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill, fortune-seekers flocked to California for its furs. Now the state is poised to become the first in the country to ban them. In the legislative drama, Los Angeles is the unlikely star.
Decades before gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill, fortune-seekers flocked to California for its furs. Now the state is poised to become the first in the country to ban them — a legislative drama in whichThe assemblywoman who wrote theand the state senator who could kill the measure represent overlapping districts in Glendale and Burbank.
Under AB 44, vintage pelts of the type Hammond sells would remain legal, as would hides from cows, goats, sheep and lambs. State Sen. Anthony Portantino , who chairs the committee and will determine whether AB 44 can move forward, declined through a spokesman to comment on the bill.But while legislators in Sacramento have largely united around the ban, it has exposed deep rifts
Critics of the law say it singles out some ethnic and religious groups while shielding others. Religious articles worn by Native Americans and Ashkenazi Jews are exempted, they point out, while fox stoles popular at black churches and Persian synagogues are not. But Assemblyman Chris Holden , a member of the California Legislative Black Caucus, slammed the idea that culture excused animal cruelty at a hearing on AB 44 earlier this year.“To suggest that there’s a cultural connection to this issue trivializes the point,” Holden said. “It focuses on a divisive issue.”
“People in California want to know that if they buy an animal product in California that it was humanely raised and sourced,” said Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, the bill’s author. “I don’t claim to speak for all cultures, but I would hope that people would care for the welfare of wild animals being raised in small, cramped cages, chewing on their legs because they’re so stressed and being anally electrocuted for their fur.
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