Leather cattle... Indian leather! used for meat too?!
Are the beef cattle raised in the EU and america etc used for leather?
Having trouble finding info on this... appreciate links.
Answers: Indian cattle are most commonly used as the leather source for most of the EU and America yes? Are these cattle used for our meat too?
Are the beef cattle raised in the EU and america etc used for leather?
Having trouble finding info on this... appreciate links.
Cows Are Cool: Leather Is Cruel, Not a Cool skin trade.
http://www.cowsarecool.com/
WHAT'S WRONG WITH LEATHER?
What's Wrong With Leather 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 labeled, you never really know where (or whom) it came from.
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.
Most of the millions of animals slaughtered for their skin endure the horrors of factory farming before being shipped to slaughter, where many are skinned alive. Buying leather directly contributes to factory farms and slaughterhouses since skin is the most economically important byproduct of the meat-packing industry. Leather is also no friend of the environment since it shares all the environmental destruction of the meat industry, in addition to the toxins used in tanning.
With every pair of leather shoes that you buy, you sentence an animal to a lifetime of suffering. Instead, you can choose from hundreds of styles of nonleather shoes, clothing, belts, bags, and wallets. Fashion should be fun, not fatal!
I think so, because leather is just the skin of the cattle.
We eat the muscles, the meat of the cow