RE: Sin-thetic Gear

[Guest guest]

Dear Tammy & other Friends ~

 

Thanks, Tammy, for sending this along. *VERY* interesting, indeed! I was just

flipping through the list of upcoming local festivals and noticed that the

Folsom Street Fair (a veritable orgy of leather) is happening on September 29,

2002, on Folsom Street between 7th and 12th Streets. How interesting

would it be to have a pleather booth, complete with stuff from Sin-thetic Gear

(*great* name!) and our tv/vcr setup with images on how leather is produced. In

keeping with the demonstrative spirit of the Folsom Street Fair, we could do

some street theater involving the live skinning of a cow. Leslie

Craine, the woman who designed the battery cage displays and does

http://www.animalrightsstuff.com, designed a body suit that looks like muscle

and flesh (a body with the skin removed). The street theater involves having a

person dressed in a cow costume, wearing the body suit underneath. A

" butcher " enacts live skinning of the cow while the cow is still conscious. We

could write a script that conveys the fact that the Humane Slaughter Act is

being violated all the time in this country. Wouldn't that be powerful?

 

If anyone wants to get involved with this, we have over two months to plan this

really well. Could be really fun, and it would be a really great wake-up call to

the " alternative " community that should be embracing compassion rather than

cruelty. Given that SF is such a hotbed (har har) of hedonism,

a large presence of our troops at the Folsom Street Fair could really ruffle

some feathers (mixing animal-unfriendly metaphors).

 

Cheers,

Alka

 

 

 

Tammy [govegan]

Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:08 PM

SF-Be-A-Veg

[sFBAVeg] Sin-thetic Gear

 

 

A friend asked me to forward this to the list... honest! ;-)

 

Tammy

 

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Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:26 AM

Tammy

Would you please send this to the list anonymously

 

http://www.veganerotica.com/

" VeganErotica.com specializes in sexy 'sin-thetic ' bondage gear that

takes the ' cow ' out of 'cower ' . The cyber sex shop is just one of

a growing number of companies that have tapped into increasing consumer

demand for top-quality merchandise without taking the skin off a cow ' s

back. "