Party-pooping PETA (the PETA-pooper) is at it again: this time, they’re mewling and barking about China’s cat-lossal leather industry, which is the world’s ‘top dog’ supplier of animal skin (in such tremendous amounts, it can wrap the globe in leather). According to pain-in-the-neck PETA’s video below, bovine Bessies aren’t the only beasts whose superfluous pelt is being appropriated by China’s leather traders – skin-indifferent felines and canines are also selflessly volunteering their hides for the greater good.

Specifically farmed in giant facilities, or abducted from the streets or private residences, Garfields and Scooby Doos are being corralled, beaten to death and skinned (sometimes, alive) by the thousands in slaughterhouses across China each year (call it a ‘mutt-sacre’ or ‘holocat’) – and their newly-liberated pelts are subsequently channeled to where they REALLY belong: our fashion, interior decoration and toy industries (but of course!).

Thankfully for hoomans, leather processing plants abound in China, because the country imposes no penalties on resourceful businesspeople who simply abuse and skin domesticated animals on a mass scale (well played, PRC!). Consequently, hides that formerly encased live kitties and doggies (for no discernible advantage to people), are transformed into gloves, belts, jacket collar trims, cushion covers, pet toys (oh, the irony!) and other items human life would be meaningless without. The true nature of the leather is not disclosed – and products made from or featuring said leather is sold to unsuspecting customers, from Cochin to Kuching (get, it? Cat?).

If bothersome PETA’s revelation is making you jump out of YOUR skin, or looking askance at your chic new fingerless leather gloves, it motherf****** should! Wake up and wise up to the atrocity being committed on an industrial scale on helpless hounds and faultless felines – all in the name of fashioning accessories that help keep our pants up (raffia string CAN look dressy, if tied right).

Watch the following video and cringe, weep, scream – even puke. Get outraged, get disgusted, get angry. Then DO something to show that you stand (in hemp shoes, preferably) on the side of all that is compassionate, moral – indeed, even human.

For more information – and you better be searching! – visit PETA Investigations this very minute, Godd***it!