Gucci ignores facts on Indian leather production to join boycott
Despite the facts presented recently by a statement from the Indian Council for Leather Exports (CLE) on the state of the meat industry in the country, Italian-brand Gucci has decided to join the campaign mounted by a virulent anti-meat, anti-dairy products organisation against the Indian leather industry.
The statement issued by the CLE during the recent Italian Lineapelle event explained the fact that locally generated hides in India are of a quality only suited to shoe-linings and that tanners import cow hides for the production of goods for the world market. While leading the campaign for the government to reform laws governing animal transport and slaughter in India, the CLE maintains that the boycott is unfairly holding the leather industry to ransom for a situation that is not within its control.
The organisers of the boycott, who promote an anti-meat, anti-leather lifestyle through the use of animal rights issues and have persuaded a number of brand names to fall in line through aggressive and threatening tactics. It is a campaign wihch ironically enjoys the support of Stella McCartney, daughter of ex-Beatle Paul who now has her own fashion label within the Gucci group.
