We Vegeterian People

Author(s): Atul Doshi
Publisher: Atul Doshi

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Leather it's a skin of animals... the big culprit
Leather-Changing scenario
1. In good old days, leather was derived from animals dying their natural deaths.
2. Some time later, slaughter houses killed animals for meat and then the leather was sold as a by-product
3.) Now, Indian leather industry breeds animals for leather to meet the everincreasing leather demand for domestic consumption and export.
Leather is no more a by-product of the meat industry and it is not produced to minimize waste, but solely as a highly profitable and lucrative business.
ANIMALS
The target of the Government of India for the leather sector to achieve an export value of USD 14 billion (Rs. 840,000 million) by 2016-17 from Rs. 270,000 million, growing at a Cumulative Annual Growth of
about 25%.
LEATHER
ARE NOT FABRIC
Rate
Just
imagine...
this is more than 3 times export target... from where would such a great number of animals come... this is not possible without the support of dairy industry... target of leather production... is directly linked to the dairy industry target.
Holy Ganga river is polluted so much by the leather industry and it could be said that Rs. 200,000 million spent on 'clean Ganga project' are completely wasted.