The leather industry spent most of the last year intensifying an already determined lobbying campaign in Brussels to win an exemption from the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR. The effort is paying off: on May 4, the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, formally proposed excluding leather, hides, and skins from the regulation’s product […]
  • r1veRRR@feddit.orgEnglish
    61·
    3 months ago

    Of course we would exclude a product from one of the biggest industries at fault for literally every single common environmental issue we have. Animal AG is horrible for everyone involved and not involved.

  • Photonic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    3 months ago

    Everyone hates lobbyists, and it is not just a waste product like they claim but on the other hand, the cows are not killed for just the leather. It is certainly an extra source of income and a reason for the farmer to have and eventually kill the cow.

    But the main reason for slaughter is still the beef and leather is usually a very durable – lasting decades – and natural product and the alternative is plastic products that just cause more microplastics build up on our planet. A good pair of leather shoes can outlast like 5-10 plastic sneakers. So maybe there should be a different set of rules for leather. I don’t know