Animals Are Not Ours to Wear
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Animals Are Not Ours to Wear

Animals are not ours to wear or carry our possessions in. Before their skin or hair reaches shop shelves, animals endure a life of misery, pain, frustration, and fear, and many are skinned alive.

 Every year, more than 1 billion animals are slaughtered in the global leather industry. Sheep raised for wool are routinely mutilated, abused, and eventually killed. Foxes, minks, and chinchillas spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages just to be slaughtered for their fur. The exotic-skins industry claims the lives of millions of snakes, alligators, seals, zebras, and other animals.

 Since more and more designers are embracing vegan fashion, making compassionate choices is fun and easy.

Leather
A sheep lying dead on the floor

Wool
PETA Asia
A goat having their hair torn from them, a still from a cashmere investigation

Cashmere
PETA Asia

Down

Wild-Animal Skins

Angora

Feathers

Fur
A goat being roughly shorn in the mohair industry

Mohair
PETA Asia

Silk

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