ALEC Is Now Deciding What You Eat. Révélations choquantes sur l'industrie du cuir commentées par la créatrice de mode Stella McCartney. De nombreuses personnes évitent et refusent de porter de la fourrure, en raison de la manière épouvantable dont les animaux souffrent et sont tués pour leurs peaux. Mais qu'en est-il du cuir ? La plupart des consommateurs ne sont pas au courant de la cruauté envers les animaux associée à l'industrie du cuir ni des effets néfastes pour l'environnement de la production du cuir. La créatrice Stella McCartney, qui n'utilise aucun cuir dans ses collections, explique pourquoi elle a rejeté le cuir dans cet exposé vidéo choquant sur l'industrie du cuir. La vidéo de Stella fournit des faits aux consommateurs pour que ces derniers puissent prendre des décisions informées avant d'acheter des produits fabriqués avec du cuir. Une grande partie du cuir provient de pays en développement comme l'Inde et la Chine, où les lois de protection animale sont soit inexistantes soi non appliquées.
Je veux dire au monde entier que je ne porterai jamais la peau d'un autre animal. Leather and Factory Farming. Most leather comes from cows raised for both beef and milk. Cows raised for beef spend most of their lives on extremely crowded feedlots. Studies have found that ranchers maximize profits by giving each steer less than 20 square feet of living space—the equivalent of putting 12 half-ton steers in a typical American bedroom! The animals are subjected to painful procedures such as castration, branding (which causes third-degree burns), tail-docking, and dehorning—all without painkillers. They are deprived of veterinary care and exposed to the elements without any shelter. These breathing, thinking, feeling beings, who feel pain just as humans do, suffer immensely.
They are also fed a steady diet of hormones to fatten them and antibiotics to keep them alive in extremely poor living conditions. At the end of their short, dismal lives, cows are jam-packed into metal trucks, where, confused and terrified, they suffer from injury, weather extremes, crowded conditions, hunger, and thirst. Animals Used for Leather. Cows According to recent research, cows have distinct personalities and are generally very intelligent animals who can remember things for a long time. Animal behaviorists have found that cows interact in socially complex ways. They develop friendships over time, sometimes hold grudges against other cows who treat them badly, form social hierarchies within their herds, and choose leaders based upon intelligence.
They are emotionally complex, and they even have the capacity to worry about the future. Read More Researchers have found that cows can not only figure out problems but also, like humans, enjoy intellectual challenges and get excited when they find solutions. Cows who are killed for their skins, in the leather trade, are subjected to painful procedures such as castration, branding (which causes third-degree burns), tail-docking, and dehorning—all without painkillers. Close X Pigs Kangaroos Millions of kangaroos are shot for their skins every year in Australia.
You Can Help. Environmental Hazards of Leather. Raising animals for food and leather requires huge amounts of feed, pastureland, water, and fossil fuels. Animals on factory farms produce 130 times as much excrement as the entire human population, without the benefit of waste treatment plants. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has even acknowledged that livestock pollution is the greatest threat to our waterways.
Although some leathermakers deceptively tout their products as “eco-friendly,” turning skin into leather also requires massive amounts of energy and dangerous chemicals, including mineral salts, formaldehyde, coal-tar derivatives, and various oils, dyes, and finishes, some of them cyanide-based. Tannery effluent contains large amounts of pollutants, such as salt, lime sludge, sulfides, and acids. People who work in and live near tanneries suffer too. Arsenic, a common tannery chemical, has long been associated with lung cancer in workers who are exposed to it on a regular basis. La part de l'élevage dans les émissions de gaz à effet de serre.
Elevage. La "ferme des 1.000 vaches" au coeur des débats sur l'agriculture française.