Veal trend affects leather prices
31/05/2011
Manager of Santa Croce-based leather broker Fargo, Stefano Gianotti, told the Reuters Global Luxury and Fashion Summit in Paris at the end of May that calfskin has become scarce. He said: “Tanneries use waste products from the meat industry. People eat less veal nowadays, so these skins are harder to get.”
To illustrate the point, by the end of the last decade, the US was producing about a tenth of the amount of veal (69,000 tonnes) it produced 50 years ago.
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