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No compassionate
person would buy or wear fur. But what about wool? The facts often
surprise people—lambs and sheep suffer greatly for the wool clothing
that many people wear.
Contrary to industry propaganda depicting happy sheep who are lovingly
shorn of their "excess" fleece, the wool industry is an ugly
business. No amount of fluff can hide the fact that buying wool
supports a cruel industry in which lambs and sheep suffer while they're
alive and often die a terrifying death.
Please support PETA today to help save sheep and other animals
from such abuse.
PETA's investigations of farms in Australia—the world's top wool
producer—have helped to expose this industry's horrendous hidden cruelty
to animals.
Helpless lambs are forced onto their backs, and chunks of skin
and flesh are hacked from their rumps with gardening-type shears—often
without the use of anything whatsoever to numb the pain. This
crude, barbaric practice is called "mulesing." This practice is intended
to stop flies from laying eggs in the sheep's wrinkled skin (although
there are lots of humane ways to do so) but leaves the animals with
open, bloody wounds that often become infested with maggots.
The cruelty doesn't stop there. Once some poor sheep
are unable to produce enough volumes of wool to satisfy the farmers,
they are shipped to slaughterhouses in the Middle East and North Africa.
Each year, millions of sheep are crammed so tightly onto boats that
animals who are ill or injured often collapse and are trampled to death.
Some suffer exposure to the elements, including storms at sea and must
stand amid their own accumulating excrement. For many, the journey is
fatal. The terrified survivors are dragged from the ships and thrown
into the back of trucks and cars or loaded into trucks in the heat and
taken to crude slaughterhouses—only to have their throats cut while
conscious.
By making a tax-deductible gift to PETA today, you
will help us stand up for all the lambs, sheep and other animals whose
suffering has been carefully concealed until now.
PETA's international campaign to protect abused lambs and sheep is
gaining ground, and we are building the momentum that we need to win.
We've already helped compel dozens of leading designers and
retailers—including Abercrombie & Fitch, Liz Claiborne Inc., H&M, HUGO
BOSS, Perry Ellis, Nike, and Adidas—to join our campaign against
mulesing and the suffering that it causes. We've also helped bring about
a sea change in public awareness of the treatment of these gentle
animals and the pain that they are forced to endure.
With your help, we will have the much-needed
resources to push even more designers and retailers to stop buying wool
from mulesed lambs and let consumers know that animals may have suffered
terribly in order to make wool sweaters, jackets, and hats. Your support
is essential to ending the abuse of animals for fashion.
Together, we can take strides to reduce the abuse and slaughter of
gentle lambs and sheep by ensuring that wool, like fur, goes out of
fashion. Thank you for caring.
Very truly yours,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
P.S. Fashion shouldn't be deadly to animals. Please show your style—and
your love of animals—by never wearing anything stolen off an animal's
back. And please help us save animals from these bloody industries by
donating online to PETA today. Thank you! |
