You may not have realized it, but Oregon Leather Pride Week 2007 is winding down this weekend, and you’ve got just three days left to flaunt your lack of compassion for the animal kingdom.

Leather Pride is put on, in part, by the Portland Leather Alliance, “a pansexual organization dedicated to outreach and support for the Leather-BDSM-Kink-Fetish community,” and benefits Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, and the Q-Center.

But, in case you forgot, you heartless jackass, leather is made from cows. Cows who now have to walk around without their skin. Is that what you want?

“We feel like celebrating sexual diversity is great,” says Matt Rossell of In Defense of Animals, “but let’s leave tortured farm animals out of the bedroom.”

But, Rossell says, you shouldn’t let your conscience get in the way of your Leather-BDSM-Kink-Fetish activities—he recommends people hit up veganerotica.com for their “hand-crafted vegan bondage gear, whips, belts, harnesses, and other vegan leather (a.k.a. ‘pleather’) items.”

Or, since you haven’t got a lot of time, you can hit up Collar Factory here in town for black rubber bondage collars.

(To be fair, the Leather Alliance did apparently have vegan offerings at their family picnic on Thursday night, according to their calendar, “for all you rubber folk.”)

Check out the rest of the weekend’s events here.