MORE RETAILERS BAN ANGORA PRODUCTS DUE TO CRUELTY TO RABBITS

 

A horrific video has shocked consumers to the point that major retail shops are refusing to buy angora products from Asia.  This has had a significant economic impact on Asian angora rabbit farms.  

 

ONE GREEN PLANET - The PETA’s heartbreaking and graphic undercover investigation of an angora wool farm in China where angora rabbits have their fur plucked while they are still alive – an extremely painful and undeniably cruel process exposed this process for the whole world to see.

 

Arguably, this type of cruelty is probably seen on most angora rabbit fur farms since around 90 percent of all angora wool comes straight from China, where there is no regulation in place to monitor this type of treatment.

 

PETA’s investigation has been a wake-up call for the fashion industry, especially. H&M was one of the first to announce their decision to halt production of products using angora rabbit fur (until, as they say, they find farms that practice good animal husbandry, which most of us know is really not possible due to the very nature of exploitative animal practices).

 

Espirit and New Look soon after followed suit. And today, the number of fashion companies against the use of angora wool production is climbing.

 

Recently, online retailer ASOS and PVH Corp. (the parent company of Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, IZOD, ARROW, Van Heusen and others) confirmed that they will pull and ban any products made with angora from their shelves.

 

The U.K’s TopShop has also halted angora wool product production, but like H&M and Espirit, has not committed to a full-on ban of future “more humane” products. (Say, stores: how about just leaving the rabbits alone and using, oh, organic cotton or a similar less-invasive material?)

 

Zara also seems like they’ll be coming on board, too, thanks to a “Save the Bunnies” petition by corporate responsibility group Sumofus.org that was directed to Inditex, the parent company of Zara.

 

The Huffington Post recently reported that Inditex has “reiterated” its policy of “providing decent living conditions for animals to all its Angora suppliers” and that “those who buy clothing by Inditex ‘can rest assured that all its garments are manufactured responsibly and ethically.”

 

We should definitely applaud that companies who have taking a stance against cruel angora wool practices, but for those that still use it as long as it’s made under “humane” conditions, well, the message just seems inconsistent since “humane” is never really all that it seems to be in any animal industry.

 

Either way, it is nice to see companies (and consumers) wake-up for once. However, there are retailers who have yet to remove angora wool products from their shelves, like GAP, and a new petition has been started by PETA urging them to “stop squeezing profits from screaming rabbits.” Sign it here, and spread the word about angora wool cruelty to inspire others to keep it out of their wardrobes.

 

Source - http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/after-angora-fur-investigation-some-companies-ban-products-while-others-continue-sales/

 

 

 

RELATED

December 16, 2013 -The truth about your fluffy jumper: Asos bans angora as agony of rabbits plucked alive is revealed in shocking video.  Rabbits are seen screaming in pain and terror. 

 

Shearing a rabbit takes up to an hour when done with care — but again, the process recorded on these videos was terrifyingly swift.  This process is repeated every three months for the two to three years of the animal’s life. 

 

Angoras can live for five years, or even as long as ten years when well looked after, but farmed rabbits have a much shorter lifespan, which can be as little as two years.

Pictures show forlorn looking rabbits with tattered and partially shaved fur cowering in tiny cages in half-covered sheds.

Read more, see pictures and video - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2524629/Asos-bans-angora-agony-rabbits-plucked-alive-revealed-shocking-video.html

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December 15, 2013  -  Britain suspends imports of angora fur due to outrage over animal cruelty 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2524028/British-stores-suspend-orders-super-fluffy-angora-wool-products-horrifying-video-reveals-cruel-techniques-used-skin-rabbits.html

 

 

Other cases of extremely cruel treatment of animals

 used for fur and meat.

The fur trade - how dogs and other animals are skinned while alive.
http://features.peta.org/ChineseFurFarms/
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-clothing/fur/chinese-fur-industry/
http://www.peta2.com/actions/chinese-fur-farms/


Dogs' skin used to make boots - skin taken while animal is still alive
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045016/Raccoon-dogs-skinned-alive-make-cheap-copies-Ugg-boots.html


Dogs and cats beaten to death, cooked and eaten
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2164353/Horrific-images-dogs-killed-cooked-served-meal-sick-Chinese-tradition.html

The ritual cruel mistreatment of cattle,

sheep and other animals in the Middle East

 

1) Recent report and video from ABC showing extreme cruelty in Jordan.

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3880669.htm

2) Short videos exposing cruelty against animals all over the Middle East and other Asian countries.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D3E7217DA77C504

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