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 […]
They talked about leather as a byproduct. Not leather as a product of husbandry.
Ignoring them and putting words in their mouth based on partial sentiment is not constructive. You are just creating rifts and hate.