PETA India and our international affiliates exposed cruelty to sheep used for wool in Australia in 2013, 2015, and 2017. We unveiled abuse in the US in 2017. We revealed suffering inflicted on sheep in Argentina twice in 2015 and in Chile in 2016. PETA Asia exposed the same cruelty in the United Kingdom in 2018. In four years, the global wool industry’s systemic cruelty to sheep has been exposed on dozens of farms on four continents.
After all that, you might think that wool industry workers would be on their best behaviour and try not to hurt sheep quite so badly. But you would be wrong.
In 2018, an eyewitness in Victoria, Australia, the world’s top wool exporter, and found the farm manager and workers mutilating terrified lambs in assembly line fashion – showing, yet again, that there is no such thing as humanely produced wool.
Look in your dresser and closet. Are you still wearing wool? If you are, please stop. Now is the time to rid your home of wool. It’s up to you to end these gentle animals’ suffering by refusing to buy anything made of wool. Please, give lambs something to be thankful for: ditch wool today.
No matter where it comes from or what assurances companies give you, wool is a product of cruelty to sheep, which is rampant in the industry.
Please, join us in urging Forever 21 to ban wool.