Photos: Coach’s Cruelty to Cows Draws Grisly Anti-Leather Display From PETA
Photos: Coach’s Cruelty to Cows Draws Grisly Anti-Leather Display From PETA
London – Today, with the festive shopping season underway, crowds near the Coach store on Regent Street were met with a gruesome sight when a PETA supporter displayed a realistic ‘bleeding’ severed cow’s head whilst holding a sign proclaiming, “Here’s The Rest Of Your Leather Bag!”
Photos are available here.
The provocative action – part of PETA’s push for Coach to drop animal – and planet-killing leather – comes ahead of PETA’s inaugural Free the Animals Friday, a worldwide Black Friday initiative that seeks to call attention to the suffering of billions of animals slaughtered every year for leather and other animal-derived clothing and inspire holiday shoppers to choose compassionate vegan options.
“When kind people understand whose skin is ripped off for leather bags, they’re eager to reach for vegan accessories instead,” says PETA Senior Campaigns Manager Kate Werner. “PETA is encouraging shoppers to keep cruelty off their gift lists by choosing stylish leather-free options that let there be peace on Earth for all animals.”
Cows have friends, hold grudges against other cows and mourn when a loved one dies or when they’re separated from each other. More than a billion cows and other animals are killed for leather every year. A PETA exposé of the world’s largest leather processor – which has been linked to Coach – showed that workers brand calves on the face, beat cows and bulls and shock them with electric prods. Leather has been ranked as the most polluting material in fashion. It contributes to the climate catastrophe, land devastation, deforestation, pollution, water contamination and loss of biodiversity.
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 PETA on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, or Instagram.
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