Testimony in Support of 1476, New York City Ban on Fur Sales
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FROM Deborah Tanzer, New York City Activist
May 2019


Please support Intro 1476, the ban on fur sales in the city, and make New York City the moral city and the example for the nation it should rightly be.

To New York City Council:

My name is Dr. Deborah Tanzer. I am a NY State Licensed Psychologist, and a Psychoanalyst, with a clinical practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. I also lecture, write, and do research on cruelty to animals.

Surely the highest form of cruelty to animals is when we torture and murder them, which is what is done to fur-bearing animals so that we can steal their fur and wear it ourselves. Horrific leghold traps, where the animal victims chew off their own limbs in agony, gassing, anal and genital electrocution—these are what we inflict for the sake of our vanity and fashion.

The links between cruelty to animals and violence against humans are well documented. When we indulge the cruelty of the fur industry, we are not only harming ourselves as moral beings, but we are teaching our children lessons that will ultimately harm humans as well. Gandhi said "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

Please support Intro 1476, the ban on fur sales in the city, and make New York City the moral city and the example for the nation it should rightly be.


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