Any company that imports leather goods from countries such as Pakistan, Thailand and China should know the facts about the leather industries in those countries and the raw materials made in their tanneries.

The facts listed below are taken from various government and child protection agency websites and have not been fabricated by us. Please read below and/or you can find more info at this link. CLICK HERE

Just so everyone knows, it is a fact, most leathers are toxic. The most common leather used in BDSM gear is latigo. Latigo leather is tanned using many carcinogenic chemicals including Chromium. Leather tanned in countries such as Pakistan and Thailand are some of the most toxic due to a lack of regulations regarding how those factories operate. We use only very strictly regulated European and North American Vegetable tanned leathers here at Sinvention.

The bondage manufacturing industry in North America and Europe is being decimated by cheap imports from East and South East Asia. We are not alone in this and our industry is not the only industry affected. We have governments blindly committed to a policy of free trade irrespective of the impact on local industry and employment.

Factors such as exploitation of child or slave labour and irresponsible dumping of highly toxic waste in the leather tanning industries, still highy prevalent throughout much of Asia, is tacitly accepted by our open door trade policies. We don't accept anti-social behaviour by our own industries; why should we accept it in our trading partners? And neither, if we are to believe our Government's public utterances, do we accept misleading product descriptions. The Oxford Dictionary defines 'leather' as the "skin" of an animal. When the skin has been removed and the remains reprocesssed with a synthetic polymer finish is this still leather?

Some of the pages on our website are an attack on blatant misleading product descriptions in the leather industries and the worldwide masquerading of imitation leather products as the genuine thing. We emplore you to look deeper into the products you choose to buy and to not be fooled by irresponsible ond often dangerous leather goods being offered by many other online retailers and stores. Your country and your neighbours are depending on you!

If you accept the under investigated lies that companies today try to use to absovle them of responsibility for perpetuating these outrageous acts of Human Rights violations and toxic dumping then please watch this movie.

CHINA BLUE
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chinablue/