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Default How cruel is leather?

On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 13:54:58 -0800, "Dutch" lied:

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><dh@.> wrote in message ...
>> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:41:47 +0000 (UTC), Jahbulon
>> >
>> wrote:
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>>>"Dutch" > wrote in news >>>
>>>> Why don't you do some research and report back
>>>> to the group instead of tossing out questions
>>>> and hoping others will do the work for you?
>>>
>>>I don't know where to start. My only experience is non-leather belts that
>>>seem to break within about a week, and shoes that don't last as long as
>>>those made of leather.

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>> You're almost certainly contributing to more cds every time you buy
>> those
>> things than you would be if you bought leather, unless those things don't
>> involve any cds at all as leather doesn't.

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>That's a lie.


You're lying. You can't say every death associated with the animal is also
associated with every single product and part of product that results in the
animal having lived and died. For example if a grass raised steer was
responsible for 12 significant deaths of other animals like rodents and
reptiles, which is probably extremely high, and the animal was raised for beef,
then the 12 deaths are split amoung however many servings of beef resulted from
butchering. That being the case those deaths can't ALSO be AGAIN counted for the
by-products which the animal was not specifically raised for. Not for leather,
not for fertilizer, not for pet food...