Cruelty towards animals for leather

Cows, buffaloes, sheep and goats are used to make leather. These animals are killed to make cheap leather which is sold around the world including US and Europe.

In India cows are sacred. But now they are killed for their skin which is made into cheap leather.  

The animals are bought from poor families in rural India getting assurances that their animals will have a happy life and die naturally. But that is a pure lie.

The animals are packed in huge numbers in trucks in which most of the animals become badly injured. They are gouged by the horns of other animals or get crushed. Many of the animals die also.

Handlers cruelly twist the animal’s necks and tails hard and pull the nose rope to force the animals out of the truck.

By the time the animals are unloaded from the trucks most of them have collapsed because they are injured, exhausted or dead.

In the Deonar slaughter house (Mumbai) you see animals injured and dead strewn every where on the ground.

The animals aren’t immediately slaughtered. They are left in the scorching and burning sun. They have no medical care, food or water.

Some animals are pulled away by tractors.

The animals face such a torture that it is a relief to be slaughtered.

The animal’s meat is supposed to be exported to Muslim countries. That is why the animals are supposed to be killed nicely in the Islamic Halal manner. But the animals aren’t at all killed nicely. Hacking and sawing replaces the quick slice across the throat with a sharp knife. They are slaughtered with dirty blunt knifes. The animals are slaughtered in full view of other animals. The animals are slaughtered on disgusting floors covered with blood, urine, feces and guts. Animals who don’t want to enter the killing floor are cruelly beaten until they move into the killing floor.

And did you know that some animals are skinned and dismembered while they are still alive.

All this is terrible.

So please don’t buy leather for the sake of animals.

Watch this video on on cruelty towards animals for leather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb8lZyRkoGg&feature=r

Abused horses



An abused horse



In Panchgani (a hill station near Pune ) there is a place called Table point. Table point is a place where tourists come and ride horses.



There are some beautiful and expensive horses. These horses are well kept and are used for riding. Then there are horses that aren’t very expensive and beautiful. These horses are used for riding and are not very nicely kept. And then there are the horses that pull carts. These horses are very cheap and are horribly kept.

The horses on Table point are often beaten and whipped. They are made to work very hard.

Riding horses





Riding horses are not very nicely kept. They often are sick. They have rashes on the skin. This is often because soap is used to clean them, and soap isn’t good for horses. And in the stables they don’t have proper bedding. So while they sleep they injure themselves.

Cart horses



A horse that pulls a cart

Cart horses are terribly kept. They aren’t expensive and beautiful at all so they aren’t kept well. They aren’t fed well. They don’t have proper bedding in the stables. They have to pull a cart for the full day. When they don’t pull the cart they are whipped.

Cases of ill-treated horses I have seen



A horse who is thin like a skeleton

 I once saw a horse who was tired to pull the cart. The owner had to whip the horse a few times before the tired horse pulled the cart. One horse I saw was tied to the cart and was standing. He couldn’t sit as he was tied to the cart. The horse looked tired of standing. Another horse was tied up. This horse was dreadfully thin. It was a skeleton. Its ribs were poking out. Its bones were poking out. It was injured. It was sick. It had a bruise on the shoulder. Its leg seemed to have wound that was very dirty. This was the worst ill-treated horse I have ever seen.

The same horse who has got a wound in the leg