Making vague claims based on inaccurate startling information leads to the misinformation that people are regularly being fed. The PETA statement does not consider the long term consequences of plastics (synthetics), nor the in-life consumption of water, energy, detergents, etc. used to wash synthetic fabrics (which leather doesn’t require). Nor does it balance the statement by referring to the social economies of many high-producing, low-income countries where both farming and leather manufacture form the basis of sustenance and income for large populations.