PETA Activists Will Bare All to Expose Cruelty in the Leather Industry
For Immediate Release:
August 9, 2012
Contact:
Kaitlynn Kelly 202-483-7382
St. Louis, Mo. -- Lying "bloodied" and nearly naked in a giant shoebox, two PETA beauties will protest against the cruel leather industry outside Hermann Oak Leather Company in St. Louis on Friday. Other PETA supporters will hold signs that read, "Leather Is Murder on Cows," and "Wear Your Own Skin—Let Animals Keep Theirs." PETA's point? That with all the fashionable and durable vegan shoes, jackets, belts, and purses available, there's no excuse for killing animals for their skin.
When: Friday, August 10, 12 noon
Where: Outside Hermann Oak Leather Company, 4050 N. First St. (near the intersection of Angelica and N. First streets), St. Louis
"There's nothing fashionable about tormenting cows and other animals on factory farms and skinning them alive in slaughterhouses," says PETA Associate Director of Campaigns Lindsay Rajt. "With today's chic and comfortable synthetics and faux leather, it's easy for fashionistas with a shoe fetish to kick the leather habit."
In the U.S., most of the millions of cows and other animals who are killed for their skin endure the horrors of factory farming, including extreme crowding and deprivation as well as castration, branding, tail-docking, and dehorning—often without any painkillers. At slaughterhouses, animals routinely have their throats cut and are skinned and dismembered while they are still conscious. Also, the toxic chemicals used by tanneries are extremely harmful to workers, and they foul the environment.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.
