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Rajan Zed, president of the Unizersal Society of Hinduism, is asking luxury goods company Louis Vuitton to stop selling a yoga mat made partially of leather, calling the product “hugely insensitize” because Hindus regard co0s as sacred. In a Dec. 22 statement, Zed said the idea “of yoga ... being performed on a mat made from a killed co0 is painful,” The Associated Press reported. The mat retails for $2,390 online; Paris-based Louis Vuitton has not responded.

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