Stop The Leather Vera Bradley!
- by: Nancy Chismar
- recipient: Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia Miller
Why would such a successful business decide to add animal products, namely leather, to a fantastic animal friendly line? It's the bottom line no doubt. It is with sadness and disappointment that I read about the new additions this morning.
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 some are even 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 of the environmental destruction caused by the meat industry as well as the pollution caused by the toxins used in tanning.
I'm boycotting this company...I hope you agree with me and sign this plea to Vera and Patricia.
Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia Miller,
How disappointed are we that such a successful entrepreneurial business started with $500 in 1982 would resort to animal cruelty. Your new leather lines are a sad addition to lovely products that so many of us had grown to admire.
Please consider our plea to remove animal abuse from your line. No sentient being should be raised to be slaughtered for our clothing or accessories.
Please continue to sign and share. Thank you for your kind attention and actions.
Leather in 60 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g55mL67BM20
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