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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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