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According to the Food & Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, farm animals currently contribute more to global warming than transport. (18% of all global greenhouse gas emissions).

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Alternative shoe materials include silk, cork, rubber and canvas.

Hemp can me made into an attractive alternative to suide.

There is also a new biodegradable eco friendly alternative to leather on the market called 'Tope'. For more click the link below:

When you buy cheap leather, do you even know what animal it comes from? It's likely to be an ex factory animal who spent it's short life being pumped with hormones in a tight space and from the third world where the slaughter process is horrific. However as animal origins are not stated it could come from any kind of animal including cats?

Of course, expensive furs and leathers state the animal, sometimes are hunted creature who's meat is wasted and died simply for fashion.

Most of our cheap plastic alternatives are made in the third world, the toxic waste flows into rivers systems and kills fish and slowly poisons other animals and people who live off the rivers. There are no wild fish in the Mekong and other great rivers of China and South East Asia. Only fish farms.

According to a report in 2007 by The Council of Textiles and Fashion Industries of Australia, women under the age of 30 buy 102 pieces of clothing a year- that’s around two pieces of clothing a week on average, or eight or nine pieces per month.

The fastest selling magazine in Australia's publishing history is "Shop til' You Drop."

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