Leather: Not an Innocent By-Product
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2007
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
When confronted by the ethical considerations of leather, many people exclaim that it is a mere by-product of the meat industry and is thus absolved of culpability. The truth is quite different. Far from the altruistic industry this perception implies, the leather industry is inherently linked with the meat industry, providing the latter with much-needed profits and incentive to survive. In addition to the abuse that takes place in the slaughter industry, the leather industry is also responsible for the suffering and death of animals targeted specifically for their skins. Add to that the huge amount of energy and toxins necessary to turn once-living skins into preserved hides, and you've got an industry that doesn't come out looking good after all.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:23.3 | I founded compassionate cooks to empower people, |
| 0:26.4 | to make informed food choices, and to debunk myths about vegetarianism |
| 0:30.8 | and animal rights. |
| 0:32.0 | You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting |
| 0:35.0 | our website Compassionate cooks.com and from there you can check out our cookbook |
| 0:41.2 | The Joy of Beacon Baking, our cooking DVD, some articles |
| 0:45.2 | and essays, you can join our message board, which is a great way to connect with other |
| 0:49.3 | podcast listeners. |
| 0:50.9 | So thank you for being here and for being interested in our |
| 0:54.0 | podcast. Before we get started I would like to thank today's sponsor first and |
| 0:59.2 | foremost Brian Kobliska. It was actually Brian's brother, Mike, who made a gift sponsorship in |
| 1:05.8 | Brian's name, which was very sweet and very generous. And when I wrote to Brian to notify him of his |
| 1:11.5 | brother's gift, he wrote back to commend his brother for what he does. |
| 1:15.9 | So here's what Brian wrote to me. |
| 1:18.0 | Thank you so much for the email. |
| 1:19.8 | It's very nice to hear from you. |
| 1:21.1 | My brother is the one who truly deserves recognition for all of the work |
| 1:24.9 | that he does for animal rights. He's a tireless volunteer with the organization Shark, which |
| 1:30.3 | is Shark Online.org. So Mike's sponsoring on behalf of Brian and Brian is commending |
| 1:36.5 | Mike for his work so I just wanted to make sure each of them knew that each one of them |
| 1:40.5 | has a lot of affection for the other obviously and it's very lovely. |
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