In the sake of fashion, billions of animals suffer and even perish every year for clothes and accessories. Many materials derived from animals, including as wool, cashmere, mohair, leather, down, silk, and alpaca fleece, are sold by Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People—all owned by Urban Outfitters Inc. These materials are invariably the result of great brutality, cruelty, and fear. See video here.
Products from Urban Outfitters degrade helpless, gentle animals to an eternity of pain. We need to tell these firms that there is no place for animal-derived products on shelves or in closets, especially with so many chic vegan outfits that don’t need sacrifice.
Luxurious textiles devoid of animal testing are already available at Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and devoid People. What then prevents them from taking out of their stores anything that is derived from animals—items that cause great suffering? Tell Urban Outfitters that unless they promise to sell solely vegan materials, you will be buying elsewhere.
Products from Urban Outfitters degrade helpless, gentle animals to an eternity of pain. We need to tell these firms that there is no place for animal-derived products on shelves or in closets, especially with so many chic vegan outfits that don’t need sacrifice.
Luxurious textiles devoid of animal testing are already available at Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and devoid People. What then prevents them from taking out of their stores anything that is derived from animals—items that cause great suffering? Tell Urban Outfitters that unless they promise to sell solely vegan materials, you will be buying elsewhere.
Knitwear Causes Alpacas to Suffer and Cry.
Workers on the largest privately owned alpaca farm in the world, which supplies alpaca wool to Anthropologie and Free People, beat, kicked, tied down, and disfigured alpacas for their wool, according to a startling undercover PETA study.
Many of the pregnant alpacas cried out and puked in terror when they were forced onto tables. Many of the terrified animals were left bleeding from serious, agonizing wounds from careless shearing, and they were stretched out using apparatuses that resembled medieval torture racks. Please see video here.
After PETA’s study, major clothing businesses rejected alpaca fleece; there’s no reason Urban Outfitters can’t take the same benevolent stance.
It’s Not “Just a Haircut” for Wool.
No matter where in the world investigators from PETA entities have visited shearing sheds—and no matter what those operators claimed about welfare standards—extreme abuse of sheep is rampant. Video footage—compiled in 13 exposés of 116 wool industry operations on four continents—shows gentle sheep enduring beatings, being stomped on, and getting kicked, including in the face. Please see here.
Shearers labor quickly and carelessly, frequently leaving sheep hurt and bleeding. They are typically paid by volume rather than by the hour. Roughly, deep cuts are sutured up without anesthetic.
The wool industry is built on the abuse of animals, so don’t believe the hype. Vegan materials like cotton, flannel, Tencel, and even recycled plastics can keep us warm.
Avoid Mohair and Cashmere.
Many large brands dropped mohair after a disturbing PETA Asia investigation exposed this industry’s systemic cruelty.
Workers at 12 farms in South Africa where angora goats are raised for mohair were observed dragging them across the floor, picking them up by the tail, throwing them, and mutilating them with knives and pliers. Goats are exploited for their hair for several years, until their teeth wear down from an insufficient diet, and they can no longer eat. At this point, most are sold for painful, crude backyard slaughter, long before their natural life expectancy.
Please see photos and videos on PETAS website here.
Additionally, goats howling in agony and terror were discovered during a PETA Asia investigation into cashmere operations in China and Mongolia. The goats were being held down, having their legs twisted, and having their hair torn out using sharp metal combs. Veterinary care or pain medication was not provided to injured animals. A worker doused a goat’s gory wound with rice wine. Goats are brutally stunned with a hammer strike to the head and left to bleed to death on the floor of the butcher if they are deemed unprofitable.
Horrors of leather.
One byproduct of the meat industry is leather. This implies that purchasing leather goods like purses, coats, or shoes contributes directly to the death of friendly, gregarious, and inquisitive cows. While we would never wear the skin of a dog or cat, wearing the skin of a cow is equally inappropriate and speciesist.
Several PETA investigations across several nations—including at ranches that supply JBS S.A., the world’s largest leather processor—uncovered regular electroshocking and beating of cows, as well as face branding of calves. In India, handlers put tobacco and hot peppers into the eyes of tired cows to make them travel farther on the arduous, lengthy journey to their demise.
Long boat and truck rides are used to send large numbers of cows to be slaughtered, where they endure extreme overcrowding, inadequate food and water, and disease. According to a PETA exposé, cows that were too weak or damaged to move were lifted off a ship by a crane, with just one leg supporting the weight of the entire animal. Please see video here.
Long boat and truck rides are used to send large numbers of cows to be slaughtered, where they endure extreme overcrowding, inadequate food and water, and disease. According to a PETA exposé, cows that were too weak or damaged to move were lifted off a ship by a crane, with just one leg supporting the weight of the entire animal.
Please see photos, videos and petition here.
It is needless and causes terrible suffering for cows to be used for leather when innovative businesses can make leather that is both eco-friendly and animal-friendly from recycled bottles, apples, cork, and grapes. Please see video on the manufacturing of vegan leather here.
Birds suffer from Down!
According to PETA’s findings, birds in the down industry suffer greatly throughout their imprisonment and final death. Please see video here. A large number of geese are killed so that their down can be brutally pulled out several times during their brief lives. When the fearful birds are confined, occasionally their fragile necks are compressed by the weight of an adult, they scream. Please see videos and petition here.
Labels may cheer consumers, but to birds caught in the cruel down business, they mean nothing: Investigations have shown that the words “responsible” and “non live-pluck,” which are used by some companies, are usually meaningless. Please see video and petition here.
Furthermore, all birds whose down is used to make commercial goods are eventually transported to slaughterhouses, where their bodies are submerged in the boiling hot defeathering tank, they are hanged upside down, and their throats are chopped.
Silkworms don’t want to die!
Despite their small size, silkworms appreciate their lives and do not want to die, much like all other people. They react to stimuli, have a central nervous system, and flinch when startled. However, each year, billions of these microscopic creatures are gassed or boiled to death inside their cocoons in order to produce silk apparel.
Silk is unnecessary, especially with the abundance of vegan textiles like rayon and a variety of cutting-edge synthetic materials that can be made to look and feel like silk. Please see video here.
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