World’s Largest Clothing Retailer Donates 31,000 Angora Items to Refugees

When Inditex, the world’s largest clothing retailer, learned from PETA that live rabbits’ fur is torn from their skin on angora farms, it adopted a permanent ban on angora wool. Now, the retailer—whose brands include Zara, Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti, and Bershka—is distributing its remaining stock of more than 30,000 brand-new angora-wool garments to refugee camps in Sulaimaniya and Diyala, Iraq.

As revealed in PETA’s exposé, some rabbits used for angora scream in pain as their fur is torn out, while others are cut or sheared and invariably wounded by the sharp tools as they struggle desperately to escape. In addition, the angora-farming industry condemns these intelligent, social animals to years of isolation in small, filthy wire cages.

Inditex is part of a growing list of more than 220 top brands and retailers—including H&M, Ann Inc., Bebe, French Connection, ASOS, Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney, and Tommy Hilfiger—that have permanently banned angora wool.

However, some brands, such as Free People (which is owned by Urban Outfitters), continue to sell angora.

Tell them to stop here.