The organization known as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has an article on their website condemning the use of leather products. Simply titled “The Leather Industry” and accessible by typing ‘cowsarecool.com’, this article aims to show how cruelly animals are treated while their skin is being obtained to make leather. This website supports the belief that that when you buy leather you are an accessory to animal cruelty because they think that any informed person would not fund the industry while they operate in this manner. This article is primarily geared towards those who are easily swayed by slaughter pictures and have so much excess empathy that they are willing to let PETA dictate what they wear.
PETA claims that you are an accessory to animal cruelty by stating “With every pair of leather shoes that you buy, you sentence an animal to a lifetime of suffering”. They then go on to list all the ways in which animals are subjected to torture while in a slaughter house. Stella McCartney states in her video posted on the website that “our aim is not to tell you what you wear” yet clearly PETA is trying to pressure you as evidenced in the first quote. I think that PETA means well but they barrage you with all this evidence of suffering that it’s hard not to feel
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She mentions that “most leather comes from developing countries…where animal welfare laws are nonexistent”. She says that in such places cruelty towards animals’ manifests in different ways, for example in India a worker may “break cows’ tails” or “rub chili pepper into their eyes…after they collapse from exhaustion”. She goes on to use an example from the US, “In the US…animals routinely have their throats cut and some are even skinned and dismembered while they are still conscious”, to show us that cruelty is not isolated to developing countries but may be happening in our own back
In every laboratory, any new product or ingredient is usually tested on animals like rats, guinea pigs, dogs, or rabbits. The questionable substance according to some scientists may apply to a small area of the animal’s skin to determine primary irritation. However, we should also know that this is already too much for the animals. We may need them for food and research but we should also care for their welfare. Animals should be treated humanely, even though most people are unlikely to give up eating meat or wearing goods made from leather and wool. We, humans are given the capability to think superior than any other living creatures, that’s why we have the power to think another way to stop these exploitations. For example in fashion, designers should stop using fur and use fibers instead to make fake fur. The best part is, it can look almost identical to real
Doesn’t it kill you to see a movie and see an animal get killed or just hurt in it? Good thing that’s all special effects. Back in the day, around 1966, movies didn’t always use special effects. Khartoum, a movie based on a holy war in the Sudan desert, directed by Basil Dearden and Eliot Elisofon, used horses a great deal, but did not use the special effects in order to not hurt the animals. Many horses died in the making of this movie, as well as others, even including a major hit, Ben-Hur. Today, there are many activist groups that fight for and about the unfair treatment and protection for animals in everyday life. The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is one of these groups. PETA was founded in
Animal cruelty looks like being aggressively bred and drugged to produce as much milk as possible in the shortest amount of time possible. Dairy cows are often killed after just three lactation cycles as it is more cost effective to kill them early on instead of waiting for milk production to
Peta investigation found a farmer killing injured turkeys by beating them with a metal rod, leaving them alive and tossing them aside to slowly die. The industry deemed this act as legal and ignored the farmers beating the turkeys. Many turkeys were taken to the slaughter sick and half dead for being loaded on the transportation truck and given no water or food and traveling through unforeseen weather conditions. The final words of Alec Baldwin from the PETA investigation is when you sit down at your table, become a vegetarian for the sake of all the animals in the world. The problem with the animals continue to be abuse are people turning their heads to the abuse. The profits from the animals are more important than their treatment.
Many animals are tortured and killed just for their skins in order to make materials such as leather. In some cases these animals such as pigs, -
Animals are much more complex and innovative that should be given more credit than it should be. Now learned about the animal feelings exist, human could be too cruel in using their survivor coat, fur, for expensive souvenirs or fashion runway. The Born Free USA organization expounds in 50 million violently killed animals for fashion every year. Fur is believed to get from meat production, but ¨fur comes from animals who are factory-farmed or trapped purely for fashion.¨ Animal furs are obtained through gassing, electrocution, or neck breaking in traps. Imagined a full house of fully coated species trap in a cramp factory house, the animal of intelligence are thought to be under humane treatment, but the fashion factories say differently. Rifkin support of animal is simply a moral principle that every human should have instead of thinking as a superior intelligent
There are a plethora of news sites, organizations, and establishments, all within the American fur trade, that enjoy deceiving the general public with claims of a humane and safe fur trade. While these claims seem to hold credibility, they fall flat once challenged with heavy evidence of cruelty and peril. The fur trade should be outright banned from the United States as it excludes humane methods of euthanasia, utilizes wretched methods of confinement, and as it acts as an extreme health hazard. Trappers, farmers, retail stores, and any individual who accommodates this cruelty, fails to take into consideration the lives of millions of animals, as well as their own health.
Like every war there are two sides. One the INDUSTRY and two the people try to save the animals. The people have been against the industry or “factory farming” for years. Factory farming’s only goal is to make a profit and just as his grandmother refused to eat pork; people are trying so hard to protect animals because “If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save”. (storytelling P17). There are many organizations like PETA (Words/Meaning P71) that will go to wild extremes to showcase the disturbing reality of how the industry treats the
Although the US regulates many aspects of animal butchery, citizens are still occasionally kept in the dark about where their meat is coming from, and sometimes that meat can even be given to them under the guise of “cruelty-free.” Unfortunately, the average person is not as aware of this as they should be. If someone does not do something to change the way animals are butchered, it is going to progressively get worse. Humans are animals too, and all animals can feel pain and have their own thoughts. If it is not right for humans to go through avoidable suffering, then how come the avoidable suffering of other animal species just to produce meat is so easily
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Author of the article, “I’d rather wear fur than go naked”, Brendan O’Neill argues that people are uncomfortable with being on top of the food chain and that as humans we shouldn't care if animals have feelings or not. He states, "Fur - where we take animal's coat and make it our own - is just too explicit an expression of man's control over nature for some people to handle.". He also argues that people are hypocrites because people are okay with animals as food, pets and leather boots but not okay with wearing their fur. The intended audience of this article is people that lie in the middle of being against animal cruelty, such as PETA, and people that are pro hunting, a killing sport. O’Neill use of emotional appeal, particularly irony and sarcasm, in convincing his audience of
Taking a look into a once strong industry, shocking facts are revealed. The fur industry brings in an average of $1.5 billion in sales each year. Furs were considered a beautiful and feminine version of clothing by many women, until the public became aware of the horrors that accompany the industry. Activists have been a voice for animals tortured for their fur, making the public aware, and diminishing the old view of fur. Approximately 3.5 million fur-bearing animals are killed each year by trappers, and another 2.7 million are raised on fur ‘farms’. (1)
Many people who wear fur are not aware with the sad reality behind its production. Fur is associated with glamor and wealth. However, the truth is entirely different. Annually, millions of animals are brutally killed for their skin in the name of fashion. Coats, accessories, hats, scarves, and other fancy items are made from these innocent beings. They spend their entire life in tiny cages, often with diseases, and at the end – beaten, skinned alive and thrown onto a pile. It may sound terrifying, but this practice happens on a daily basis. Before buying fur, people should be well-informed that their trendy items come from cruel, needless, and bad for the environment industry.
Ethically responsible brand, Freedom of Animals, conjoins sustainability and luxury through their vegan leather accessories. With plush fabrics and materials from recycled polyurethane, the accessory line is consciously crafted in the U.S.A and is continuously supporting the Wildlife Fund of Kenya. Founded in 2012, by designer Morgan Bogle, Freedom of Animals’ mission is “ to provide customers with distinct and purposeful designs that comply with ethical practices. Marrying form, function and style – Freedom of Animals is about creating affordable luxury with sustainability as our platform.”
Leather is on of the biggest animal product market in the fashion industry. However, it is one of the most brutal one. It can be made from couple different animals. Such as pic, goat, cow, sheep or kangaroos, alligators and snakes like exotic animals which are more on the expensive side. Chinese market also uses cats and dogs for leather production since the cost if lower when it’s compared to the other animals. Most of the leather products consumer sees on the market comes from China and India. Where are the places animals harmed the most. Another big market is the fur industry. Also most fur comes from China as well. The cheapest methods are used to kill the animals. Such as poisoning them, giving gas or electrocution method which an breathing creature should never experience. Fur industry harms