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Future Mercedes-Benz models will be available with a completely leather-free option...

Zim Hosein

Zim Hosein

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In January 2005, Mercedes-Benz informed PETA that all future Mercedes-Benz models will be available with a completely leather-free option, either direct at the dealership or via special order in all markets.

Mercedes? announcement follows PETA?s consumer-driven campaign to pressure the company to offer alternatives to leather for all models of its cars. The campaign scored a stunning first step victory in 2003 when DaimlerChrysler-India agreed to make a nonleather interior an option in all Mercedes models built and sold in that country. Campaign supporters included actor James Cromwell (whose credits include The Sum of All Fears, The Green Mile, The General?s Daughter, and Babe, for which he received an Academy Award nomination), who had asked DaimlerChrysler, maker of the Mercedes-Benz brand, for a face-to-face meeting at its Stuttgart headquarters.
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Leather in Cars
It takes the skins of about four cows to produce the interior of just one car. Maybach, however, requires seven cowhides, and Rolls-Royce requires 15. Bader, just one of the many leather suppliers that sell skin to car companies, goes through 9,000 skins a day. Ultimately, PETA wants car manufacturers to stop using leather. As a start, we want car companies to offer a nonleather option for each model of their vehicles. We need your help!

Because of the push from those who make money from killing animals, automakers tripled their use of leather from 1982 to 1992, doubled it again in the five years after that and continue to increase their use of leather today.

According to The New York Times, "American tanneries that serve the auto industry buy 20 percent of the 36 million hides produced domestically. At about 45 square feet per cow, that's 58 square miles of skin?enough to upholster Manhattan two and a half times."

Despite these shocking figures, carmakers that use leather try to absolve themselves from responsibility by referring to leather as a "byproduct" of the meat industry. This is just an excuse?and not even a good one?and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service more accurately states that leather is "the highest value coproduct of the meat industry." And, of course, any by-product of the meat industry is a cruel product that contributes to killing.
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Victory: Mercedes-Benz to Offer Animal-Free Interior

I need a big juicy steak! 😛
 
Actually I prefer non-leather... but if I got an MB I'd have to get leather just for resell value. Nobody else in the world would want a leather-free luxury car.
 
Great so all that leather from the cows we have to kill to sustain the meat industry will now be thrown away. Awesome use of resources. Sometimes I understand PETA and sometimes I think they are just crazy hippies.
 
I was pissed off yesterday because I'm trying to find a new work truck and wanted leather. But to get leather you have to buy a certain package level with a bunch of stuff I could care less about and adds about $6-7k.
 
Originally posted by: Cleaner
Great so all that leather from the cows we have to kill to sustain the meat industry will now be thrown away. Awesome use of resources. Sometimes I understand PETA and sometimes I think they are just crazy hippies.
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yip that is what i was thinking. That is exactly where they their hides, from slaughter houses. MB does not a take a cow out back kill it, skin it then throw 500 pounds of good meat in a river...
 
Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: Cleaner
Great so all that leather from the cows we have to kill to sustain the meat industry will now be thrown away. Awesome use of resources. Sometimes I understand PETA and sometimes I think they are just crazy hippies.
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yip that is what i was thinking. That is exactly where they their hides, from slaughter houses. MB does not a take a cow out back kill it, skin it then throw 500 pounds of good meat in a river...
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You're both retarded and you don't even know.

The leather will get used everywhere else, there will still be an overwhelming demand for it, there is no way it will get wasted just because a few more cars go out without leather interiors.
 
Originally posted by: Cleaner
Great so all that leather from the cows we have to kill to sustain the meat industry will now be thrown away. Awesome use of resources. Sometimes I understand PETA and sometimes I think they are just crazy hippies.
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I think you're more of an idiot.
 
Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
Originally posted by: Cleaner
Great so all that leather from the cows we have to kill to sustain the meat industry will now be thrown away. Awesome use of resources. Sometimes I understand PETA and sometimes I think they are just crazy hippies.
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I think you're more of an idiot.
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Oh yeah, well you're Crazy!

- M4H
 
Originally posted by: piroroadkill
Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: Cleaner
Great so all that leather from the cows we have to kill to sustain the meat industry will now be thrown away. Awesome use of resources. Sometimes I understand PETA and sometimes I think they are just crazy hippies.
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yip that is what i was thinking. That is exactly where they their hides, from slaughter houses. MB does not a take a cow out back kill it, skin it then throw 500 pounds of good meat in a river...
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You're both retarded and you don't even know.

The leather will get used everywhere else, there will still be an overwhelming demand for it, there is no way it will get wasted just because a few more cars go out without leather interiors.
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Since I agree with you it will go elsewhere, why did PETA pressure MB in this situation? I mean the cows are going to get killed anyway, why shouldn't MB use the leather if other people are?
 
I also prefer non-leather. But not for any animal rights nonsense. I just don't like leather seats. Slippery, hard, cold in the winter/hot in the summer, stinks to high hell, and too much upkeep required.
Now if MB would only sell a manual trans, I might consider them someday.
 
Originally posted by: Vic
I also prefer non-leather. But not for any animal rights nonsense. I just don't like leather seats. Slippery, hard, cold in the winter/hot in the summer, stinks to high hell, and too much upkeep required.
Now if MB would only sell a manual trans, I might consider them someday.
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:thumbsup:
 
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