PETA Requests That Cow Memorial Plaque Be Installed at Former Walsall Leather Factory  

18 July 2024

PETA Requests That Cow Memorial Plaque Be Installed at Former Walsall Leather Factory 

Walsall, West Midlands – Following reports that Hatheron Works, a former leather factory on Leamore Lane, will be developed into apartments, PETA sent a letter to Walsall Council requesting that it erect a memorial plaque at the site to commemorate the cows who suffered for the leather that passed through the building.

“Every leather item represents the suffering of an individual who didn’t deserve to die so their skin could be turned into wallets or watchbands,” says PETA Vice President of Corporate Projects Yvonne Taylor. “The skin of countless cows who were violently killed passed through this building, and PETA is calling on local officials to acknowledge this atrocity with an honorary plaque.”

Leather is a billion-pound coproduct of the meat industry, and profits from leather sales drive the slaughter of hundreds of millions of animals each year. A PETA exposé of the global leather industry found that animals are exposed to the elements and denied food and water during gruelling journeys to abattoirs, where their throats are slit while they’re still conscious and able to feel pain. Turning animal skin into leather requires up to 170 unique chemicals, including cyanide, aluminium, and chromium. Animal agriculture, which includes the leather industry, is a leading contributor to the climate catastrophe, and cow leather has been ranked as the most polluting textile in fashion by industry reports.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.

Contact:

Lucy Watson +44 (0) 20 7837 6327; [email protected]

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