Saturday, January 21, 2006

SOURCE: AFIPA.NET

http://www.afipa.net/

FRENCH GOVERNMENT BANS CAT’S AND DOG’S FUR,
FRENCH ARTISTS ARE SATISFIED!

At the request of the French and International
Association for the Protection of
Animals (AFIPA), Dominique BUSSEREAU and Thierry
BRETON have accepted to take an
interministerial decree to ban the importation
and the marketing of cat’s and
dog’s fur on the French territory.

‘The AFIPA, with the help of many artists, has
launched since a few months a
campaign directed at the government, encouraging
it it to ban cat’s and dog’s
fur. We have to congratulate the ministers ‘ says
Nicolas BISCAYE, President of
the AFIPA.

‘This is an encouraging first step for future
actions and for the protection of
animals. But the government has to go further and
has to take more measures on
this matter.

In addition to the AFIPA, several artists are
also congratulating the
government: Laurence BOCCOLINI, Françoise FABIAN,
Jean-Pierre FOUCAULT, Jeane
MANSON, MICHAL and Corinne TOUZET, who emphazise
that the French ministers have
shown interest and took the right measures
concerning cat’s and dog’s fur.

However, French artists are asking for ‘a banning
of cat’s and dog’s fur on an
european level and a French labelling for fur
(i.e mentioning of the commercial
name, the scientific name, the way the animals
are slaughtered and the country
they come from.)’

In fact, decree 91-1163 doesn’t make it an
obligation for French furriers to
mention those informations on the clothes they
sell and according to the
co-signatoring artists, ‘it is very often not
respected’.

On this matter, French artists ask for the AFIPA
officials to be received by
government’s leaders as soon as possible.

The AFIPA officials think ‘it is the beginning of
the end for the fur market’.
But as French artists conclude, ‘so much remains
to do’!

Press contact :

Nicolas BISCAYE

AFIPA

Tel : 00 33 6 62 23 24 44

Email : nbiscaye@afipa.net