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| Every time you choose to buy a "leather" jacket or shoes, you sentence animals to a lifetime of suffering. Buying "leather" directly contributes to "factory farms" and slaughterhouses, since the skins of animals are the most economically important byproduct of the multibillion dollar "meat industry". The vast majority of animals slaughtered for their skin suffer all the horrors of factory farming-intense confinement, painful mutilations, deprivation, harmful hormone and antibiotic injections, |
| What's wrong with "leather"? |
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| Animal skin is turned into finished leather through the use of dangerous mineral salts, formaldehyde, coal-tar deriviatives, cyanide-based oils and dyes, chrome, and other toxins. Every leather item bought means a lifetime of suffering to more animals. Instead, you can choose non-leather alternatives, which are available for those who care to seek them. So next time you need to buy a pair of shoes or jacket, look for a cruelty-free non-leather alternative first. Save lives. Do not buy animal skins when there are alternatives. |
| Spot the difference |
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| Spot the difference Answer: A. is an original DrMartens boot made of dead animal skin, and B. is an original DrMartens boot made from an equally durable and comfortable, cruelty-free non-leather material. |
| You don't need "leather" to look cool! Alicia Silverstone isn't wearing an inch of "leather"...she's also a vegetarian. |
| Millions of animals are killed for their skins every year. They are castrated, branded, and dehorned, and have their tails docked without anesthetics. Then they are trucked to slaughter, bled to death, and skinned. And "leather" is not only a slaughterhouse |
| and cruel treatment during transport and slaughter. "Leather" may be made from cows, pigs, goats and sheep; exotic animals like alligators, ostriches, and kangaroos; and even dogs and cats, who are slaughtered for their "meat" and skins in China, which exports their skins around the world. Since "leather" is normally not labelled, you never really know where (or whom) it came from. |
| byproduct - it's a booming industry. The "meat industry" relies on skin sales to stay in business. |
| "Leather" is also no friend to the environment, since it shares all the environmental destruction of the "meat industry", in addition to the toxins used in tanning. |
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