Leather: from slaughterhouse to tannery
Ontario, Canada
From the slaughterhouse, steaming skins of just killed cows are dropped into a dump truck that takes them down the road to the tannery. There, there are bathed in a bath of toxic chemicals to stop the decomposition by workers who breath in the fumes. Folded neatly onto a flatbed truck, the skins of cows who were alive just hours ago are taken to be sewn into leather garments for human fashion.
