Every year, 100 million minks, rabbits, foxes, dogs, cats, and other animals are killed for their fur. What you may not know is that cows, dogs, and other animals also suffer and die for the production of leather items—and their deaths are no less horrible, heartbreaking, or appalling than those of animals killed for their fur.
Abused
Tortured
Skinned
Left to Die
For the animals involved, leather production is just asviolent, painful, and deadly as the fur trade. Buying leather also supports the meat industry. Wearing fur and leather means a living, feeling animal experienced a miserable life and often painful death, all just so a fur collar or leather shoe could be made. Luckily, more and more people all over the world, including countless celebrities, are taking a stand against this cruelty by wearing cruelty-free vegan fashions for which no animals had to suffer.
PETA Asia’s investigation of the Chinese dog-leather trade revealed that workers bludgeoned and slaughtered up to 200 dogs every day to be made into leather gloves, belts, and other accessories. These dogs were no different from the ones we share our homes with—and none of them wanted to die.
In India, where most of the leather in the United States comes from, cows are marched hundreds of miles in extreme heat to their deaths, and chili peppers and tobacco are rubbed into their eyes in order to keep them moving when they slow down or collapse from exhaustion. Once they’ve reached the slaughterhouse, their throats are slit and they’re skinned—sometimes while they’re still alive.
Luckily, it’s now easier than ever to go leather-free. Companies everywhere are offering cruelty-free options that are stylish and compassionate and won’t break the bank. Be sure to check out all the compassionate retailers that proudly display our PETA-Approved Vegan Logoand learn how to wear vegan!
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For the animals involved, leather production is just as violent, painful, and deadly as the fur trade. Buying leather also supports the meat industry. Wearing fur and leather means a living, feeling animal experienced a miserable life and often painful death, all just so a fur collar or leather shoe could be made.
Even baby animals don't escape the leather industry — with the skins of calves, kids and lambs considered a particularly 'valuable raw material' by the industry because of its softness.
“Fur is an example of how we have confined wild animals to small, filthy cages in their millions in order to produce frivolous fashion items, the production of which is also destroying the planet. That's why issues such as fur matter, and it's so…
Leather is not a by-product, but a valuable co-product which helps to fund the slaughter of animals. Animals in leather supply chains are often mutilated and slaughtered in extremely painful ways, in part due to a lack of animal protection laws in top leather production countries.
Some of the chemicals used in leather processing, such as chromium and formaldehyde, are toxic and can have negative effects on the environment and human health. These chemicals can cause skin irritation, respiratory problems, and can even be carcinogenic.
However, Louis Vuitton also offers bags that are made entirely from leather, such as those from their Epi Leather or Empreinte collections. These bags do use animal skins, typically cowhide, that have been treated and processed to achieve various textures and finishes.
Real leather (not synthetically made) is made from animal skin, and more commonly cow hide, although goat, buffalo and exotic leathers such as snake and alligator are also available. Cows leather is often described as a byproduct from the meat and dairy industries, making up just 5% of the value of the animal.
Leather production not only requires a significant amount of water, but it also pollutes natural waterways. Polluted water dumped out of tanneries and slaughterhouses and which runs off farms and feedlots, can lead to environmental pollution and eutrophication.
Animals on fur farms suffer immensely throughout their entire lives in order to produce fur products. Around 100 million wild animals are farmed and killed globally each year in the fur trade, 95% of whom are bred and confined in cages.
Fur is cruel. The conditions that fur farmed animals are kept in are atrocious, the methods to kill them inhumane. All this horror for a product we don't really need.
Laura Macnu*tt: Vintage fur already exists, and if there's quality remaining in the garment, then absolutely it would be wasteful to not use it. Synthetic or faux furs are created with non-sustainable petroleum products — chemicals.
More than 1 billion animals are killed worldwide for the leather trade every single year, from cows and calves to horses, lambs, goats and pigs – and even dogs and cats.
Is using leather to make clothes and other products a sin? Wearing leather isn't a sin but it's wrong. Today, the mass killing of animals for materialistic reasons is irrelevant and unnecessary. No animal should have to suffer or die to make beautiful and affordable clothes.
The ethical implications are the same for purchasing it, as much of leather, the animal was killed for the specific purpose of making leather. Buying it supports animal abuse just as much as buying meat. Why is wearing fur viewed as unethical but wearing leather not? What are the different kinds of leather?
The general consensus is because leather coats (or any leather item such as shoes or purses) are made with the hides of animals that were also raised for food, like cows, pigs, sheep or goats, and that fur coats are mostly made with the skins if animals that are only raised or hunted for their fur while the flesh is ...
Far from being a natural resource, fur production is an intensely toxic and energy-consumptive process, with pelts being dipped in toxic chemical soups and animal waste runoff from fur factory farms polluting soil and waterways.
Opting for secondhand or vintage real fur is widely regarded as the most sustainable and ethical way to wear fur because it allows us to enjoy the aesthetic appeal without directly supporting the practices of fur farming or animal skinning.
Fur is far more damaging to the environment in comparison to other textiles, including synthetics. It is estimated that to produce a real fur coat from farmed animals demands over 15 times more energy than that needed to produce a fake fur garment.
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