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How do cows make leather?

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Cows themselves have to be killed in order to give up their skins to be made into leather. It's the HUMANS who make the leather, and make it into shoes, belts, chaps, jackets, basketballs, baseballs, footballs, soccer balls, wallets, purses, the list goes on.

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