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          CRUELTY IN OUR
         CLOTHES                                                     © Dickbauch, creative commons
         Leather production, fur

         farming, wool
         production, silk
         production, down                   Wool production
         feather production or              Sheep used for wool are
         extraction of exotic               sometimes subjected to painful
         animal skins for the               procedures like mulesing, a
         fashion industry is                practice where strips of skin are
         based to a large extent            cut from the sheep's
         on animal cruelty.
                                            hindquarters to prevent flystrike


                                       Jo-Anne McArthur, Unsplash     Sean Foster, Unsplash









           Fur farming                      Down Feather production

           Animals like minks and foxes
                                            Geese and ducks used for down
           are commonly raised in
                                            feathers often undergo live
           cramped conditions on fur
                                            plucking, a painful process
           farms, where they may suffer
                                            where feathers are ripped from
           from stress, injuries, and are
                                            the birds' bodies while they are
           often killed using cruel
                                            still alive.
           methods.




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