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A brown cow with a tag on its ear stands on a manure-covered ground. Opinion Columnist Lalita Rai encourages consumers to avoid purchasing furs, skins and other styles of fashion that cost animal lives. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Fashion shouldn’t cost lives

By Lalita Rai, Opinion Columnist | November 20, 2024

On the way to modern-day civilization, people across the globe formed families and communities to wear clothes, store food and handle various resources. For thousands of years, humans used animal skins and furs, tree bark and leaves to cover themselves.  Over...