article_snippet: Undercover footage by an animals rights group shows factory workers beating dogs to death before ripping their skin off their bodies and turning it into leather to fuel a global trade in canine fashion accessories .
article_snippet: A pair of gloves made using dog skin. 
article_snippet: With dog meat restaurants popular in many parts of the country, several establishments later sell the animals' skin to leather producers, which likely sell to Western stores .
article_snippet: Dogs like these is turned into leather gloves, belts and other accessories. '
article_snippet: the skin off dogs who were still alive is then turned into leather and sold to unsuspecting customers around the world, including, the group claims, in Britain.
article_snippet: Many British high-street retailers are importing cheap leather from China, so products made from dog skin are almost certainly on the shelves and in people's wardrobes. '
article_snippet: Skin looks the same, whoever Skin comes from, and Chinese dog killers are not likely to advertise Chinese dog killers skins honestly, so it's impossible to tell if those leather gloves or wallets are made out of dog, cow, pig, or goat skin. '
article_snippet: Cruel hand: A pile of dog corpses on the back of a van skin is being used to make gloves, shoes and other leather products at a factory in China, reports an animal rights charity .
article_snippet: Their skin is then turned into leather and sold to unsuspecting customers around the world, including, the group claims, in Britain .
article_snippet: Although the dog-meat industry in China is well known, this is the first time that the production of Chinese dog leather has been captured on camera.
article_snippet: News agency Reuters confirmed the use of dog skin during a visit to an open-air leather processing workshop, where workers stretched washed hides to dry in the sun.
article_snippet: With dog meat restaurants popular in many parts of China, several establishments later sell the animals' skin to leather producers, workers at the Hebei workshop said. '
article_snippet: There are restaurants that sell dog meat and people that eat dog meat,' said one leather producer, who declined to be named because he was not authorised to speak to the media. '
article_snippet: Reuters confirmed the use of dog skin during a visit to an open-air leather processing workshop, where workers stretched washed dog skins, to dry in the sun .
article_snippet: Dog skin yields a tough leather of generally poorer quality than that of sheep or cows, but which is also cheaper to make .
article_snippet: Dog skin yields a tough leather of generally poorer quality than that of sheep or cows, but which is also cheaper to make.
article_snippet: One owner of a processing plant told the organisation's representatives One owner of a processing plant export dog skin as lamb skin,' One owner of a processing plant said, adding that lack of transparency on the part of producers made it hard to estimate the size of the dog skin sector within the overall leather industry.