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US retail giant Eddie Bauer boycotts Indian leather
25 Aug '06
2 min read
After learning about the continuing and incredibly abusive treatment of cattle whose skin is made into leather in India, US retail giant Eddie Bauer has given PETA US fresh assurance that the company will not use Indian leather.
Eddie Bauer – a catalogue and online apparel business with more than 400 stores in the US, Canada, Germany and Japan and with 2004 sales totaling more than US$1.1 billion – joins US-based fashion icons Liz Claiborne and Kenneth Cole, which also recently gave PETA US their fresh assurances that they will boycott Indian leather.
When PETA US launched its original boycott of Indian leather in 2000, more than 40 major retailers around the world signed on. As a result, the Indian leather industry lost an estimated US$68 million.
PETA India and its worldwide affiliates have relaunched the campaign, which was put on hold in good faith when the Indian government and the Council for Leather Exports (CLE) promised to take significant steps to ameliorate transport and slaughter horrors for cows and other animals used for leather – promises which have not been honoured.
Animals in the Indian leather trade are transported in such crowded conditions that theirbones often break, and many suffocate en route to slaughter.
Eddie Bauer – a catalogue and online apparel business with more than 400 stores in the US, Canada, Germany and Japan and with 2004 sales totaling more than US$1.1 billion – joins US-based fashion icons Liz Claiborne and Kenneth Cole, which also recently gave PETA US their fresh assurances that they will boycott Indian leather.
When PETA US launched its original boycott of Indian leather in 2000, more than 40 major retailers around the world signed on. As a result, the Indian leather industry lost an estimated US$68 million.
PETA India and its worldwide affiliates have relaunched the campaign, which was put on hold in good faith when the Indian government and the Council for Leather Exports (CLE) promised to take significant steps to ameliorate transport and slaughter horrors for cows and other animals used for leather – promises which have not been honoured.
Animals in the Indian leather trade are transported in such crowded conditions that theirbones often break, and many suffocate en route to slaughter.
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