Pamela Anderson, who is expected to be a guest on Big Boss 4 this week, has fired off a letter today to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledging to urge people worldwide to reject all leather products.
Anderson, who narrated PETA?s video exposing horrendous cruelty to cattle in the Indian leather trade ten years ago writes that she has given up on hoping the leather trade will take steps to reduce the suffering of these animals stating, ?India’s laws prohibit animals from being crammed onto vehicles in such high numbers that their bones break, ban handlers from smearing chilli seeds into cows’ eyes and breaking their tails, and prevent animals from standing in their own blood and being hacked to pieces in front of each other while still conscious, yet all this continues to go on, involving countless animals every day.?
She goes on to write, ?I am calling on every kind person in India and throughout the world to join me in rejecting all leather products in order to help put an end to the suffering. I am asking every individual ? man, woman and child ? never to buy leather shoes, bags, jackets, belts or anything else made of animal skin.?
Leather products made from Indian animals are sold in stores worldwide. The two top buyers of Indian leather are the European Union and the United States.
The text of Pamela Anderson?s letter to Manmohan Singh can be found below. A pdf copy of the letter is available on request.
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