Feb 22
Did Your Shoes Have a Face?
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PETA India—whose supporters gathered outside the main entrance of the International Leather Goods Fair in Kolkata last week—knows that the best way to get people to face the truth is to put its disembodied face right in front of them:
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Most leather comes from developing countries such as India and China, where animal welfare laws are either nonexistent or unenforced. In India, workers force cows to get up and walk after they collapse from exhaustion on the way to the slaughterhouse by breaking the animals' tails and rubbing chili peppers and tobacco into their eyes.
Make sure that there's no blood on your hands (or feet) by sporting pleather or one of the many other compassionate alternatives to leather.
Posted by Logan Scherer






