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After reading our post about a U.K.-based fashion designer who makes purses and iPad cases out of deer skin, Elizabeth Ohlendorf from Sacramento, California, created a Change.org petition demanding that Rosemary Hobrough “Stop killing animals to create purses and other fashion items out of deer/fawn skin/fur.” The petition also calls for a boycott of her online store, RAH & Co. Thank you for taking action, Elizabeth.

Skin is not a fabric, even if taken from animals who were hunted on the grounds of overpopulation. We have an overpopulation of humans too, but no one is using that as a justification to kill us and turn our bodies into purses. Please sign and share the petition.

A fashion designer in the U.K. is making handbags and iPad cases out of deer skin. In response to the justification that the deer are killed anyway to prevent them from starving due to overpopulation, PETA said, ‘Selling bags made of animals who were gunned down while enjoying a natural life… results only in greedy, arrogant deer skin sellers keeping deer alive each year just long enough to kill them so as to sell more deer skin products.’

photo: Daily Mail

In modern day times, why do we regard someone else’s skin as fabric? The skins of cows, mink, fox, rabbits, alligators, snakes, deer and many other animals don’t belong to us. With all of the alternatives available in 2014, shopping at cruelty free companies like Vaute Couture, Brave GentleMan, John Bartlett and MooShoes would be no skin off your back. Please learn more about the inherent cruelty in the fur business.