{"id":17088,"date":"2020-12-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/12\/26\/louis-vuitton-yoga-mat-made-of-leather-draws-hindu-complaint\/"},"modified":"2020-12-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T12:00:00","slug":"louis-vuitton-yoga-mat-made-of-leather-draws-hindu-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/12\/26\/louis-vuitton-yoga-mat-made-of-leather-draws-hindu-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Vuitton Yoga Mat Made of Leather Draws Hindu Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/2020\/12\/22\/breaking-news\/louis-vuitton-yoga-mat-made-of-leather-draws-hindu-complaint\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-buyma-jp.akamaized.net\/imgdata\/item\/201025\/0060551339\/299410903\/428.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, December 22, 2020 (Star Advertiser): A Hindu activist is calling on luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton to pull a yoga mat made partly from cowhide leather, calling it &#8220;hugely insensitive.&#8221; Rajan Zed said in a statement today that the mat is &#8220;highly inappropriate&#8221; to practicing Hindus, who regard cows as sacred symbols of life. &#8220;The scenario of yoga &#8212; a profound, sacred and ancient discipline introduced and nourished by Hinduism &#8212; being performed on a mat made from a killed cow is painful,&#8221; Zed said. The company&#8217;s yoga mat, made mostly of canvas with leather details and a cowhide carrying strap, retails for $2,390 online.<\/p>\n<p>Zed called on Louis Vuitton executives to apologize and adhere to its corporate code of conduct, which includes commitments to ethical and social responsibility. The company &#8220;should not be in the business of religious appropriation, sacrilege, mocking serious spiritual practices and ridiculing entire communities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, December 22, 2020 (Star Advertiser): A Hindu activist is calling on luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}