LEATHER INTERIORS OF MERCEDES IRK MANEKA GANDHI & OTHERS
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LEATHER INTERIORS OF MERCEDES IRK MANEKA GANDHI & OTHERS
Annoyed over the use of leather interiors in Mercedes-Benz models, Mrs. Maneka Gandhi, MP and animal rights activist, has threatened to launch "a mass campaign" against its brands in India. She has written to the company, "I thought that you might like to change your attitude and offer non-leather interiors." Mrs. Gandhi has sent this letter to Hans-Michael Huber, Managing Director and CEO of Daimler Chrysler India, owner of the Mercedes-Benz brand cars. Maneka Gandhi, in her letter, has threatened that her campaign would involve religious leaders and politicians as well as the heads of business associations and communities. According to the PETA statement, a company reportedly supplies Daimler Chrysler with hundreds of thousand skins each year, and it is estimated that the skins of four cows or more are used for the interior of just one car.
"Synthetic materials that look and feel like leather are used by companies like BMW and Audi and are often described by consumers as superior because of their ease of care and other advantages and because their production does not come with the high cost of animal suffering," says PETA Director of Asian Campaigns, Poorva Joshipura. "There is no good reason for Daimler Chrysler's insistence on using the skins of tortured animals at all, but at the very least, the company should recognize that offering all models of its cars with a non-leather option would prevent it from losing more business from the world's many wealthy vegetarians."
Former Union Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Raghvendra Prasad Singh, famous Jain leader in USA, Chitrabhanu jee, the Director-General of the India Ahimsa Organisations and the head of the UK-based Young Indian Vegetarians are among others, who have found the automobile company's insistence on using leather interiors in its top models as "offensive." They have also sent strong protests to Daimler Chrysler. From: "Siddharth K Shah"
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- From: karthi (@ wc09.ym.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com)
on: Tue Nov 4 02:44:19 EST 2003
Tell Menaka to maintain those animals in her home.
The Marwari jains sit and fart but not maintaining any animals.
If they are real lovers of animals, they must feed those animals in their homes!
Sending messages without knowing the facts and problems of the people who feed those animals is an idiotic testament!
- From: Manu (@ mail.blackbaud.com)
on: Wed Apr 14 15:51:01
Is that the only place we in India use Leather?
- From: Pramod R Singh (@ )
on: Fri Aug 20 12:36:43
What a good job keep it on Madam, there are less no of intellectual people who understand what is going on. Do you know there are only 195 cows per 1000 people.
unseen they suffer
unheard they cry
In agony they linger
In silence they die.
Is it nothing to all those who pass by?
Let us join her to fight against the same. Dogs keep on Barking and the Elephants keep on Joging.
- From: Pramod (@ 61.11.103.112)
on: Fri Aug 20 12:41:35 EDT 2004
Shame on your human care takers (Politicians), if some one is fighting for mute ones and for good cause let her do, Human representative are busy in Corruption! Sorry dear.
Let us Help her out in her crusade to prevent cruelty against animals.
Piggy_bank@rediffmail.com
- From: davie (@ cim-dell14.cim.utep.edu)
on: Sun Aug 22 04:54:29 EDT 2004
wat is wrong in having leather interior.
in india such kind of things always becomes an issue.
- From: S.LaL (@ cache-dtc-ae09.proxy.aol.com)
on: Sun Aug 22 23:03:08 EDT 2004
fukn fool ,you got leather fetish or something?!
SAVE THE WHALES!!.
- From: davie (@ ddn39041)
on: Fri Sep 10 05:22:42 EDT 2004
S.LaL poor pakistani grocery store owner
Having such kind of things is a necessity rather than a luxury.
Menaka just has a mercedes not a ferrari.
- From: Sandeep (@ inet02.unilever.com)
on: Fri Sep 10 11:27:43 EDT 2004
If we can provide the same quality with synthetic material isnt that better than killing an animal.
If needed we have to kill animals but should avoid where possible.
- From: ukchristian (@ pptp3.speedcast.com)
on: Fri Sep 10 11:32:05 EDT 2004
Hi friends,
I appreciate the movement by Maneka Gandhi but she acts too much sometimes ???????? The people are getting the animal skins from the cows/bulls which have already been butchered for meat.So why the S**t should she be getting tensed about ? First let her try to stop the killing, then we shall think about the Bl**dy skin!!!!!!!!!!
- From: Sandeep (@ inet02.unilever.com)
on: Fri Sep 10 14:32:18 EDT 2004
By reducing the use of Animal products in various forms the profitabily of business engaged in animal slotter will come down. This inturn will increase the cost and reduce consumption.
For instance when a cow is butchered the profit is from both meat as well as skin. Now avoiding meat eating is difficult(As you dont have same quality replacement) but by not using skin cost of meat will go up and inturn consumption will come down. There by more cows can be saved.
- From: Thoughts (@ 1cust101.tnt16.nyc9.da.uu.net)
on: Fri Sep 10 20:20:50 EDT 2004
Some people have nothing else to do. Looks like PETA has found heaven in India. Stop imposing your damn views on others. I like animals too. But I am not a vegan. They should go after people who abuse animals.
- From: Thoughts (@ 1cust101.tnt16.nyc9.da.uu.net)
on: Fri Sep 10 20:24:09 EDT 2004
Also PETA can do some good by providing 1000's of poor hungry Indian children who struggle to get atleast one meal a day.
I say put Humans first then animals.
- From: yogi (@ dsl254-092-210.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net)
on: Mon Sep 27 12:41:57 EDT 2004
agar animal ki khad ko bhi Mercedez benz baithane ka LUCK mil gaya, koi jalate hoo yaro?
- From: Mallu (@ dialup-4.237.216.223.dial1.newyork1.level3.net)
on: Mon Sep 27 20:06:21 EDT 2004
Lucky animals lol Yogi!
- From: Papa Karthik (@ )
on: Thu Oct 28 12:52:19
I suppose Madam Menaka Gandhi has a point there. But I am sure the end result will be that Mercedes will make leather seats an option in its fine automobiles, and every person would choose this luxury to the synthetic leather. I mean who would want a piece of fake in their Rs. 65,00,000 car.
- From: molly (@ ce31.macau.ctm.net)
on: Sat Oct 30 23:52:09 EDT 2004
Who would like to touch a dead skin and sit on it all the time in car. I would prefer other cushion , or foam or velvet. The skin would have had so many virus, shi*t inside, and all the ugly things right from urine, dung , saliva .
I am happy that I am vegetarin, so no dead bodies in my stomach, I don't use leather full of live dirt.
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- From: davie (@ s0030140939)
on: Mon Nov 8 23:14:39 EST 2004
Leather was used by man for long time even before civilizations.
so present day brahmins say i dont like leather makes no sense
KILLING COWS IS NO BIG DEAL IN THE USA COWS ARE KILLED LIKE MOSQUITOES . SO HAVING A CAR WITH COWS LEATHER IS NOT AT ALL A LUXURY
- From: blahblah (@ ppp98-155.dsl-pun.eth.net)
on: Tue Nov 9 01:40:11 EST 2004
Menaka is only looking for some publicity after her political Vanvas.
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