Fur and Leather - Grazia Magazine

[TabithaTwitchett]

This week's Grazia had an article about the rise in popularity of wearing fur. It then had a small section at the bottom saying that wearing leather was just as bad as most leather does not come from the meat industry process. I would never wear fur but am always wearing leather (shoes, at least). Does anyone know if wearing leather is as bad as wearing fur i.e. in terms of the reported animal cruelty that occurs in producing it?

Everyone's going on about chickens - can anyone give an insight on my post?

I'm fairly sure that most leather is a by product of meat industry process. I have not heard to the contrary.

Have a look at the Peta site -I wouldn't trust Grazia for this information though I read it often I have found that most magazines have fur on their pages (its in Red this month) as well as having interviews with pro-animal people like stella macartney - to keep the advertisers I suppose

This was the first I had heard about leather aswell so I went to the sites that PETA suggested that said awful stuff. I am not a campaigner at all, just didn't realise.

Most leather comes from developing countries like India and China, where animal welfare laws are either non-existent or not enforced. Many of the millions of cows and other animals who are killed for their skin endure the horrors of factory farming?extreme crowding and deprivation as well as castration, branding, tail-docking, and dehorning, all without any painkillers. In India, a PETA investigation found that cows have their tails broken and chili peppers and tobacco rubbed into their eyes in order to force them to get up and walk after they collapse from exhaustion on the way to the slaughterhouse. At slaughterhouses, animals routinely have their throats slit and are skinned and dismembered while they are still conscious after improper stunning.

interesting paragraph that - it is saying that it is a byproduct but that most leather comes from countries with appalling animal welfare.

Another reason to try and buy leather if we have too from britain and other countries with good animal welfare. I will definitely be trying to find out about where the leather comes from when i buy shoes now.

I found out that pigs are treated appallingly in Poland so I don't buy bacon from non specified eu countries now just Britain only for bacon

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I would still wear vintage leather because to me the environmental benefits of not buying new outweigh this.

I have a vintage fur coat from my grandmother (from 1905) which I haven't thrown out - plan to turn it into a cushion one day. I have worn this in Italy on a skiing holiday. I wouldn't buy vintage fur as it creates a market for it but equally I won't throw this jacket out as it was passed to me and hasn't been sold - thats why I wouldn't sell it either (not just for sentimental reasons but I wouldn't want to make money off fur)