PETA ‘Fashion Police’ to Crack Down on Leather in Downtown Nashville

For Immediate Release:
April 5, 2024

Contact:
Nicole Perreira 202-483-7382

Nashville –

A pair of PETA supporters dressed in fashionable police outfits will be “reporting for duty” on Tuesday to bust fashion felons on Broadway and issue “tickets” to anyone caught wearing leather. The action is part of PETA’s campaign to call attention to the suffering of more than a billion cows and other animals killed every year by the leather industry and to urge consumers to choose stylish vegan options instead of leather items.

When:    Tuesday, April 9, 12 noon

Where:    Broadway, between Rep. John Lewis Way S. and Fourth Avenue S., Nashville

PETA’s “fashion police” hit the streets to hand out fashion citations. Credit: PETA

“Wearing another animal’s sliced-off skin violates the code of common decency,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s ‘fashion police’ will encourage people to see the suffering stitched into leather and opt for cruelty-free vegan clothing instead.”

At slaughterhouses, cows killed for leather may be skinned and dismembered while still conscious—after they’ve endured castration (for males), branding, and tail docking, all without painkillers. In addition to the horrific cruelty that the leather industry inflicts on animals, it contributes in a big way to climate change, land devastation, deforestation, water pollution, and loss of biodiversity. Sustainable vegan leather made from apples, cork, corn, grapes, mushrooms, paper, pineapples, soy, or tea mimics the properties of animal-derived leather without the cruelty or environmental devastation.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone
and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness.

For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.