Stingrays to be Slaughtered for Shoes
Michael, selected from Ecorazzi
June 16, 2012
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Stingrays to be Slaughtered for Shoes
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By Ali Berman, Ecorazzi
The innovative ways people come up with to exploit animals in the effort to make some cash never ceases to amaze us. This time, a new company called Rayfish is raising genetically engineered stingrays to make expensive shoes.
How are they genetically engineering them? Rayfish explains on their website, Rayfish Footwear uses a patented process of bio-customization, which allows you to design your own living, transgenic stingray. Using the DNA on file in our genetic library, you can combine the skin patterns and coloration from dozens of different species.
That means that by using the DNA from other species, they are able to change the look of the stingrays that are grown in their facility. Each stingray is slaughtered to make one shoe. Are you cringing? Us too.
The company does have a note about the stingrays being raised humanely although it doesnt specify what that means. Perez Hilton points to a photo on Rayfishs facebook page showing a picture of some Zebra stingrays.
They havent started mass production yet, but they expect to in late 2012. Sneakers will be priced at $1800 a pair. At least with high prices like those, the number of sneakers they sell will be lower. But then again, when you do the math, if they sell 100 pairs, thats 200 stingrays sacrificed.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/stingrays-to-be-slaughtered-for-shoes.html#ixzz1yJ2NBmEE
Michael, selected from Ecorazzi
June 16, 2012
4:00 pm
196 comments
Stingrays to be Slaughtered for Shoes
StumbleUpon
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Text Size: A | A | A | A
By Ali Berman, Ecorazzi
The innovative ways people come up with to exploit animals in the effort to make some cash never ceases to amaze us. This time, a new company called Rayfish is raising genetically engineered stingrays to make expensive shoes.
How are they genetically engineering them? Rayfish explains on their website, Rayfish Footwear uses a patented process of bio-customization, which allows you to design your own living, transgenic stingray. Using the DNA on file in our genetic library, you can combine the skin patterns and coloration from dozens of different species.
That means that by using the DNA from other species, they are able to change the look of the stingrays that are grown in their facility. Each stingray is slaughtered to make one shoe. Are you cringing? Us too.
The company does have a note about the stingrays being raised humanely although it doesnt specify what that means. Perez Hilton points to a photo on Rayfishs facebook page showing a picture of some Zebra stingrays.
They havent started mass production yet, but they expect to in late 2012. Sneakers will be priced at $1800 a pair. At least with high prices like those, the number of sneakers they sell will be lower. But then again, when you do the math, if they sell 100 pairs, thats 200 stingrays sacrificed.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/stingrays-to-be-slaughtered-for-shoes.html#ixzz1yJ2NBmEE
