article_snippet: Stella McCartney has long held the torch for the ethical treatment of animals in fashion and food.
article_snippet: The fashion designer  uses no animal products in a vegetarian designs and has been a vegetarian since childhood, a lifestyle that was championed by a vegetarian mother Linda and father Paul.
article_snippet: In a new interview with The Business Of Fashion (BoF) magazine, Stella McCartney said: 'The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. '
article_snippet: At the start of her fashion career, many criticised Stella - who helped kick off the vegetarian movement Meat Free Mondays with her father - for her refusal to produce and clothes with leather, fur or feathers.
highlights_snippet: Stella McCartney, 43, has been a vegetarian since a vegetarian was a child .
  
highlights_snippet: The fashion designer doesn't use fur, leather or feathers in any a vegetarian clothes .
  
highlights_snippet: a vegetarian label has developed ethical non-PVC leather alternatives .