Add to that list dentists, lawyers, doctors, maid services, headhunters, furriers, opticians, weight control specialists, psychotherapists, movers, interior decorators, plumbers.

FORBES: You Gotta Have A Flack

Ever notice how PETA rarely targets big-time furriers like Dennis Basso?

FORBES: Dear PETA: Screaming Rabbits Are Not the Answer

When baby seals were being clubbed to death in 1978 in the Magdalene Islands in Canada, the fund's crusaders painted the seals with red dye, making their coats worthless to furriers.

ECONOMIST: Cleveland Amory | The

Higher manufacturing costs are squeezing profit margins for furriers.

FORBES: Adventures in the Skin Trade

Among the show's heroes are two Orthodox Jews, the New York furriers David and Jacob Kestenbaum, who sought (not always successfully) to save more than 800 Jews, including entire Eastern European yeshivas.

WSJ: A Tortuous Road to Refuge | Against the Odds | Museum of Jewish Heritage | By Julia M. Klein

In place of the kosher butchers, fish-fryers, boot-makers, furriers and tailors who lined Brick Lane itself a century ago, and the weavers and cheese-makers of Huguenot days, there are now sari centres, halal restaurants and vendors of exotic produce.

ECONOMIST: The many mansions in one east London house of God