Nothing To Hide update: new version of essay two available
World Leather’s programme of renewing the Nothing To Hide series of essays on the leather supply chain continued in the February-March issue with an updated version of essay number two, covering animal welfare.
This new version of the essay, entitled ‘The importance of animal welfare to the leather industry’, is now also available to read on the Nothing To Hide website.
We published the original version of this essay in 2014. The updated information in this new version has come, principally, from a talk that Professor Temple Grandin of Colorado State University gave to the UK’s Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) in February 2021.
This updated essay also includes information about programmes connected to animal welfare that leather manufacturing groups have launched in recent years. These include JBS Couros’s KindLeather initiative, PrimeAsia’s Responsibly Raised and ISA TanTec’s Greener Pastures.
There are 15 essays in total in the Nothing To Hide series, all of them free to view and free to share. The series aims to explain why people make and use leather and how the industry works.
