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Packing for a trip shouldn’t mean packing cruelty. Yet, that’s the reality behind luggage sold by major brands, including Aer SF, Rimowa, Samsonite, Travelpro, and TUMI. Every leather tag, trim, or bag comes from an animal who suffered and died.
Investigations by PETA entities reveal the horrifying truth behind the leather industry. In Cambodia and Thailand, workers were documented repeatedly bashing cows over the head with sledgehammers. In India, herds are routinely forced to march hundreds of miles to their deaths in scorching heat, without food or water. When they collapse from exhaustion, their tails are deliberately broken, and tobacco and chili peppers are rubbed into their eyes to force them to stand or keep moving. In Brazil—the world’s largest exporter of animal hides—cows and bulls are beaten, burned in the face with hot irons, and electroshocked.
And leather is also terrible for the environment. Leather is animal skin that requires stopping natural decomposition through toxic chemical baths and dehydration. Formaldehyde, coal tar derivatives, and hazardous dyes—some cyanide based—are commonly used to preserve hides. Cow leather causes more water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions than plant based or synthetic vegan leathers.
There is no acceptable excuse for continuing to profit from killing animals and polluting the planet.
Please take action below to demand that these companies stop selling leather.