Like many animal lovers, I thought goods made of cowhides or lambskin are ok. They are the leftover after we have eaten the meat. How wrong I was! Read this.
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2011/3/8/lifefocus/8094926&sec=lifefocus
Home: Once a pleasant, semi-rural district in the Bangladeshi capital, Hazaribag is now a wasteland of toxic swamps, garbage landfills and mountains of decomposing leather scraps, surrounded by slums where tannery workers live.
If we all stop buying leather goods, what will happen to the economy of poor countries like Bangladesh? If we continue to create demands for leather goods, what will happen to the health of the workers?
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