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Be Fair Be Vegan
September 2016
If you found out that the leather you own was made from human skin (like
the items that were made from holocaust victims’ bodies) would you simply
use it until it wore out? If you believe it’s wrong to use animals as
commodities, would you feel comfortable profiting from the sale of your
non-vegan clothing and bedding? If you knew that the lambs had been sold for
meat and the mothers deprived of raising their young, would you feel
comfortable giving someone clothing made from the hair robbed from the backs
of sheep?
There is a good deal of debate in the vegan community over what to do with
non-vegan clothing, bedding etc. after becoming vegan. Often people go with
the easiest and most socially acceptable option, rather than the choice that
respects the lives of the animals that were taken or harmed.
Allowing their continued circulation in the market perpetuates the perception that animals are resources, rather than acknowledging the reality that these items are made from someone’s skin or hair, a mother’s milk, or feathers taken from a dead bird’s body. They were never ours to take in the first place.
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