Organic Free Ranged Cows
Question from Customer Danielle: One question – have you ever visited the farms that supply you? That would be interesting to just confirm that they are also animal lovers and take care both with their lives and death.
Answer: When we 1st started this we knew the exact farm our leather was coming from, it was the best one in California where they have their own slaughter house on their land and the animals are not shipped any distance before slaughter- However the tannery we were working with was ancient, and closed down-
The path between the Farm and the tannery is not at all direct, the cattle, and then the hides go through numerous hands- and so far it is very much challenging to track the individual hides as they go through this process-
We are in the process of coming up with a system to track them and I believe with in a year we will have a much better tracking system.
This is why for now we have chosen to work with South America for getting our Eco Friendly Leather hides where we at least know the animals are free range, and lead good lives- We know nothing of the manner of their death though and wont be able to comment on that until we go down there later this year.
As for our Organic Leather hides, these hides come from the U.K , were we work closely with the organic farm and the tannery. The cows are raised on open pasture lands (with organic feed when necessary in the winter months). The farms we work with are all certified organic. Check our O.L channel where we had done an interview with the owner of the main farm we work with.
As this is a complex and deeply “entrenched in it ways” system- we have chosen to tackle things one at a time-
Our 1st priority is not adding any further pollution to the environment through the tanning- since the leather it’s self is a byproduct of an existing industry, this is the 1st area where we can really have impact in changing things- so now we have that in place and are able to supply an ecologically tanned product to get us all started, we can start improving other aspects of the chain.
“Originally posted on July 15, 2010 “
