GO Leather Free

Presented by Nirav Sanghvi.

Introduction

Life is a great gift to all of us. It is such a precious gift that we must use it fruitfully and wisely. This is also true for animals. The presentation is designed to take you through the lifecycle of leather, paying particular attention to the humanity aspect towards animals.

Every day millions of animals are being slaughtered for leather. In that way leather is no different from Meat.

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Questions to be raised to yourself

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What do you know about leather? What do you know about animal cruelty in leather industry? Why do you use Leather? What do you know about non leather products? Do you know from where you can get non leather products?

This presentation is designed to address the above questions

What is leather?

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Leather is Animal SkinThe global leather industry slaughters every year more than a billion animals to create fashionable expensive leather accessories for sale in fashion industries.

The animals are killed only because there is a demand for their flesh and skin. If the demand decreases, fewer animals will be killed

Two common myths about leather….

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Leather items are made from animals who have died of natural causes Leather is a by-product of meat industries , so it’s OK to use leather Please remember that…….

NOT ALL LEATHER COMES FROM MEAT INDUSTRY

Leather is the most expensive product and income from leather constitutes a significant portion of total revenue of animal industries.

As such, now leather is considered as one of the main products in the cattle industry

Animal life cycle in leather industries

• Up-bringing • Transportation to Slaughter house• Last moment in Slaughter house• Finish product Leather Fashion accessories

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After young pigs are stolen from their mothers, they are brought to another concentration camp like this one with its concrete floor and steel bars.These cattles hardly have room to lie down, and when they do, other cattle have trouble getting to whatever food and water may exist.Cage is filled with rabbits whose only release from this dungeon will come with their death when they are slaughtered for their flesh & soft leather

Up-bringing

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Sheeps aboard a truck, crammed in with no room to move and transported hundreds of kilometers on bumpy roads to the slaughterhouse. Fractures and death are a regular consequence of these horrific journeysThese cattle were crowded aboard a ship for more than three months as they were transported from Australia to the Philippines. 

200 Goats aboard a tuck having capacity of 100 Goats and make them travel 1000 miles to slaughter house. Imagine how suffocating and painful that journey would be for poor goats.

Transportation to Slaughter house

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We can only hope that this skinned rabbit is dead and beyond pain. He is killed for fur which is more "profitable," this is horrific.Once the slaughterhouse workers hoist up with chain, they slit his or her throat with a knife and let the blood run into the drum.

The slaughterhouse workers begin to cut the head off this once stately animal who wanted to live as much as you do.

Last moment in Slaughter house

Finish product Leather Fashion accessories

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Fashion Victims

PIG GOAT COW BUFFALO CAT

SNAKE SHEEP ALLIGATOR

OSTRICH DOG

WHALE TIGER ELEPHANT SEAL KANGAROO

HORSE MONKEY DEER BEAR RABBIT

5 things every leather consumer should know

1. One PETA investigation found that some slaughter houses break the tails of their cows while they are conscious, tobacco & chili powder rubbed into their eyes. This forces the cattle to stay conscious and mobile if they were to collapse en-route to the slaughter house, usually the result of exhaustion.

2. Captive Bolt Stunning involves using a “gun” to shoot a metal rod through the brain of the animal. Often times these rods miss, creating a slow and excruciating death for the animal.

Large plants commonly use conveyor systems to restrain cows and pigs during stunning

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3. Designer bags often comes from reptiles skinned alive because of the belief that live flaying imparts more elasticity, or “give,” if taken when the snake or lizard is still alive. A nail through the head pins the animal to a tree, a foot holds the writhing tail straight, and a knife cuts down each side to rip off the skin.

4. Kid goats are boiled alive to make gloves, and the skins of unborn calves and lambs—some purposely aborted, others taken from slaughtered pregnant cows and ewes—are considered especially “luxurious.”

Leather workers skinning snake

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5. As the result of extremely confined spaces, pigs are denied proper exercise and become so weak that they can hardly move themselves several yards. Workers slam metal hooks into their mouths, rectums, and eyes just to keep get them onto transportation trucks.

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Baby-Animal LeatherBaby animals produce smoother,

lighterleather which carries good price in

themarket. Some of the baby animal are skinnedalive because of the belief that liveflaying imparts more elasticity and

givesofter and stretcher leather.

The skin of the innocent rabbit is slitalong the legs and around the feet.

Thenthe skin is pulled off his or her body.

15Why are humans so cruel?  Why can‘t we respect all other life

Baby-Animal Leather

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Baby-Animal Leather

Baby-Animal Leather

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Animal life cycle in Leather industry

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Adieu (Goodbye)

"You see the fear in my eyes, as you cut open my neck.

I can't hide, I am scared, I am going to die.

Is there anyone who can help me escape?

It's too late, darkness comes.

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Leather Material Alternatives• Artificial leather : Are made using a wide variety of materials and processes, making it

likely that you can find a fake leather that suits your tastes. While many fake leathers are made from different kinds of plastic, some earth-friendly, vegan faux leather is made from plant fibers and eco-friendly processes. Fake suedes look very much like the real thing, made with a realistic-looking artificial nap. Look to wholesale fabric suppliers for the widest selections of fake leathers

• Rubber : Compared to leather, rubber is more stretchy, but similar in appearance and strength to certain treatments of leather. Rubber is a popular alternative to leather for flexible shoe soles, some clothing (especially novelty clothing) and hand-held items or grips, such as steering wheel grips

• Denim : For a basic tough, long-lasting fabric that's often a good stand-in for leather, use thick, tightly-wound denim. Denim is a good fill-in for small handcrafted items where you would normally use leather, such as book bindings, billfolds or small pouches. Be sure to give loose denim edges a hem or coat them with hemming glue; although denim is comparable to leather in toughness and flexibility, unlike leather, it will fray

• Rubber : Compared to leather, rubber is more stretchy, but similar in appearance and strength to certain treatments of leather. Rubber is a popular alternative to leather for flexible shoe soles, some clothing (especially novelty clothing) and hand-held items or grips, such as steering wheel grips

• Vinyl : Vinyl is a popular replacement for leather, especially in the manufacture of clothing. It may come in the form of realistic-looking textured fake leather, or it may be used to create shiny, form-fitting clothes that can be flashier than leather while still producing a similar look.

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Leather or non-leather?• How to distinguish animal leather from non-leather?

A reliable way to check if the material in question is leather or not is to smell it; if still in doubt and if possible try to inspect its back surface by prying it open slightly: if it is not leather, it will have a material like texture, otherwise it will be very smooth. Or else, burn a corner: leather will burn without a flame and give a flesh burning odour, whereas all ‘synthetics’ will quickly catch fire because they are polymer based.

Another way to check is by applying a bit of saliva since animal leather absorbs moisture – on faux leather it will not ‘disappear’. ‘Synthetics’ have an unbroken uniformity in pattern over their entire surface whereas animal leather varies in patches.

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Please find attached the list of suppliers of non leatherproducts in India

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Suppliers of non leather products

Non leather products suppliers

Do’s & Don'tsDo’s• Spread message ‘GO Leather Free’ in your community and

discourage usage of leather products• Create an awareness about animal cruelty in Leather industry

among your community. • Educate yourself on the alternatives to the leather that exist• Always ask for non leather product when you go for shopping• Help others by providing information about alternatives

products and place from where they can by non leather products Don'ts• Don’t use leather products switch over to non leather products• Don’t accept or give leather products as ‘Gift’• Don’t buy leather upholstery for your home or car, always

choose the cruelty-free option• Don’t promote leather products

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Pledge against leather1. If you feel that this presentation has inspired you to give up

leather product and replace with non leather products then please login to the website www.GoLeatherFree.Info and affirm your intention to go leather free and take a step forward to give a new life to our animals

2. If you feel that you can not go leather-free overnight, you may want to gradually replace leather goods with animal-friendly goods.

3. Let us not be just passive spectators to all this atrocities on innocent animals. It is indeed a crime to be silent. Let us do something. Let us give our voice to these voiceless animals

LET US STOP THIS GLORY BUSINESS FROM OUR SIDE. LET US AVOID THE BLOODY MASSACRE OF INNOCENT ANIMALS

Who pays for your leather shoes?

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THNK YOU FOR PRECIOUS TIME

WarningIf you have a strong heart then you can look at the next few slides

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Animals Cruelty in leather industry

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Animals Cruelty in leather industry

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Please click or copy and paste the below links in webbrowser to view Animal cruelty related videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZQnQeAPJc

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Animals Cruelty in leather industry

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Animal+slaughter