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February 2, 2024
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Norfolk, Va. – PETA despatched a letter to Samuel Levine, director of the Federal Industry Fee’s (FTC) Bureau of Client Coverage, urging the company to amend one key level in its Inexperienced Guides referring to merchandise’ eco-friendliness—its designation of animal-derived pre-consumer fabrics as “recycled content material,” one thing they’re no longer.
Credit score: PETA
“Pre-consumer fabrics” aren’t recycled in any respect. Fairly, they’re brand-new, never-before-used fabrics left over all over production—i.e., leather-based trimmings from creating a briefcase or unused wool left over after reducing a sweater. Beneath the present Inexperienced Guides, an organization may just make a watchband from this leftover leather-based and declare that it’s “recycled content material.” PETA issues out that the use of this leather-based at once will increase the call for for extra cows to be killed and skinned, however a shopper looking for to shop for “recycled content material” would slightly suppose that the leather-based used to be in the past used and that purchasing it might cut back the call for for brand new leather-based as a substitute of accelerating it.
“Susceptible animals are harmed in myriad tactics and killed for type, that means that categorizing fabrics accurately is an important in order that shoppers know precisely what—or who—they’re purchasing,” says PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA needs the FTC to replace its Inexperienced Guides and reminds everybody {that a} vegan label is the one surefire technique to be sure that no dwelling, feeling being used to be harmed to finally end up on a hanger.”
PETA’s complete letter to Levine is to be had right here.