Exotic leathers

[alexandrainparis]

Thanks for the recipes! I don't think I will be trying them...but, it is always interesting to know...Now I am going to ask at my local boucher in Paris if people request it…It will be interesting to find out.

I am more troubled by some things which are a byproduct of the food industry. I don't eat veal...nor would I eat kid...(I don't think I am too keen to try any goat, but certainly not kid) due to the fact that these are baby animals and I am morally opposed to the way veal is raised. (I am not certain it is raised the same way everywhere) But, I think every living this is entitled to "babyhood" if nothing else.

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[susan-eric]

Goat is eaten in the Caribbean. I've also seen it on some Indian menus, although I don't recall seeing any goats in India. I was only there a month--they may have been all over and just not where I was.
I do like exotic skins--alligator, crocodile, ostrich, lizard. I don't have any stingray, but am not averse to it. It has made me a little uneasy, however, when vacationing in Florida, which I do regularly. I look at the alligators lurking on the sides of the waterways and think, hmm, I don't have good alligator karma at all. And just the other day, an alligator in Florida grabbed a woman jogging along the water. They found her legs, or maybe it was her arms, inside the alligator. That, combined with the numbers of dogs they grab, leaves me sympathetic to the desire to make them into handbags.

 

[fendifemale]

I have a website saved to my Favorite list that sells vintage skin bags:
1930's-1960's frame bags, clutches, satchels, etc. A lot of these bags are in tip top shape and come in rareties like elephant, giraffe, eel, and zebra. I really like the bags and wonder how some of them would feel. I dont like embossed leather. I'd rather the real deal. I also love ostrich.

 

[chloehandbags]

Thanks for the recipes! I don't think I will be trying them...but, it is always interesting to know...Now I am going to ask at my local boucher in Paris if people request it…It will be interesting to find out.

I am more troubled by some things which are a byproduct of the food industry. I don't eat veal...nor would I eat kid...(I don't think I am too keen to try any goat, but certainly not kid) due to the fact that these are baby animals and I am morally opposed to the way veal is raised. (I am not certain it is raised the same way everywhere) But, I think every living this is entitled to "babyhood" if nothing else.

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HeHeHe!!! As I'm a veggie, I probably won't be tempted, either!

I totally agree about veal. Even when I ate meat, I wouldn't eat veal. Apparently, they have slightly improved the way they farm veal, but it's still pretty barbaric, IMO.

 

[chloehandbags]

Goat is eaten in the Caribbean. I've also seen it on some Indian menus, although I don't recall seeing any goats in India. I was only there a month--they may have been all over and just not where I was.

When I was googling for French and Italian goat recipes, I stumbled on a site which was talking about Indian goat production. Apparently they are one of the biggest (if not the biggest [can't remember which]) producers of goat in the world. They eat it regularly, curried and the leather is a by-product of this.

I didn't include a link to this site in my posts, as I wasn't sure whether the European designers we were mainly talking about, used Indian produced goat leather, or just locally produced skins.

I do like exotic skins--alligator, crocodile, ostrich, lizard. I don't have any stingray, but am not averse to it. It has made me a little uneasy, however, when vacationing in Florida, which I do regularly. I look at the alligators lurking on the sides of the waterways and think, hmm, I don't have good alligator karma at all. And just the other day, an alligator in Florida grabbed a woman jogging along the water. They found her legs, or maybe it was her arms, inside the alligator. That, combined with the numbers of dogs they grab, leaves me sympathetic to the desire to make them into handbags.

But aren't they just following their instincts?

After all, unless you are a vegetarian, or a member of a religion that forbids it; you have probably already consumed tens of cows, even more pigs and probably, hundreds of chickens, turkeys and fish!!!

I'm not sure that it makes any difference, just because you haven't grabbed them from the riverbank - I'm sure the alligator would just as well have all his/her meat prepared and delivered, as well!!!