PETA presents Don’t Steal Animal’s Only Clothes

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You might own a whole wardrobe of clothes and shoes, but animals only have one set : their skin and fur. Let’s try not to wear leather and fur any more!

Leather can be made from cows, pigs, goats, and sheep; exotic animals such as alligators, ostriches, and kangaroos; and even dogs and cats, who are slaughtered for their meat and skin in China, which exports their skins around the world. Because leather is normally not labeled, you never really know where (or whom) it came from.

Most leather comes from developing countries such as India and China, where animal welfare laws are either non-existent or not enforced. In India, a PETA investigation found that workers break cows’ tails and rub chili peppers and tobacco into their eyes in order to force them to get up and walk after they collapse from exhaustion on the way to the slaughterhouse. In the U.S., 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. At slaughterhouses, animals routinely have their throats cut and are skinned and dismembered while they are still conscious.

Buying leather directly contributes to factory farms and slaughterhouses because skin is the most economically important byproduct of the meat industry. Leather is also no friend of the environment, as it shares responsibility for all the environmental destruction caused by the meat industry as well as the pollution caused by 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. Check out PETA’s cruelty-free clothing guide for great tips on where to find fashionable yet compassionate clothing. Fashion should be fun, not fatal!

 
PETA（善待动物组织）出品——不要窃取动物唯一的衣服

翻译： Scarlette
审核： Terry

你可能拥有一橱的衣服鞋子，但是动物只有一套，即他们的皮毛。让我们以后尽量不穿皮毛制品吧！

皮革制品包括牛，猪，羊，还有如短吻鳄，鸵鸟，袋鼠等珍稀动物，甚至还包括猫，狗等在中国作为食物然后向其他国家出口他们皮毛的动物们。由于皮革制品通常不会贴有标签，你永远都不知道你手里的皮革制品是从哪里，从哪个动物那里来的。

大多皮革制品来自于印度，中国等动物权益法案未被贯彻实施或者根本不存在相关法令的发展中国家。善待动物组织调查发现，在印度驱赶牛群进屠宰场的过程中，有些牛因为过度劳累而倒下，这时工人们会打断牛尾，把辣椒烟草等搓进牛眼来迫使这些动物站起来继续前进。在美国，数以百万计的牛和其他动物是因为他们的皮而被杀的。在那个过程中，他们除了要忍受工厂化养殖带来的极端拥挤之外，在接受阉割，打标，剪尾，去角之类的行为时都不会被给予任何止痛药剂。在屠宰场，动物们在尚有意识前就会被残忍的割开喉咙，剥下皮毛，肢解。

购买皮革直接促进工厂化农场和屠宰场发展，因为皮革是肉类产业中最有经济价值的副产品。皮革并不环保，因为它必须为肉类产业带来的环境污染负一部分责任，也要为后期染制时产生的污染负责。