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Category: Wool

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Personal Care & Fashion
Victory! Wool Stolen From Sheep Will No Longer Be Sold by Alternative Apparel

We informed Alternative Apparel that sheep are shorn bloody and eventually killed. Now, the company has stopped selling items made of wool.

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After 11 Exposés, PETA Sheep Go Coast to Coast With Wool-Free Message

PETA has released 11 exposés of 99 sheep operations on four continents that have revealed rampant abuse. Now we’re taking our anti-wool message coast to coast.

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Alicia Silverstone Starts 2019 Naked in Times Square

Alicia Silverstone will start off the new year naked in Times Square for PETA.

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lacoste bans mohair
Lacoste Joins 340+ Brands in Banning Mohair After Shocking PETA Exposé

After hearing from PETA France that goats are violently mutilated and killed for mohair, Lacoste agreed to ban the cruelly obtained fiber.

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Animals Appear Across the U.S. to Say, ‘Wear Something Vegan’

PETA is taking outspoken sheep, cows, foxes, and geese across the country to tell shoppers how they feel about wool, leather, fur, and down.

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Lambs’ Tails and Flesh Cut Off—Tell Forever 21 to Stop Selling Wool

What more do you need to see before you stop wearing wool? How many more lambs must be mutilated, cut, beaten, kicked, thrown around, and skinned alive?

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Dying to Help Animals? PETA Releases New Decals for Coffins and Urns

Whether you’re setting up a cheeky Halloween display or preparing for your own demise, PETA’s coffin and urn stickers are to die for.

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PETA Asia sheep shearing investigation in Scotland
BREAKING: PETA Asia Exposes Sheep Abuse in Yet Another Country

A new PETA Asia investigation has found workers in Scotland violently punched sheep in the face, slammed their heads into the floor, and threw them off the shearing trailers.

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Joanna Krupa Gets Naked in Times Square to Stick Up for Sheep

Supermodel Joanna Krupa tells the naked truth about wool in PETA’s Times Square billboard.

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Victory! New Zealand Bans Mulesing Mutilations of Sheep

After pressure from animal advocates, the country has passed a law banning one of the worst abuses endured by sheep in the wool industry.

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PETA Calls Out Patagonia for Secrecy Around New Wool Source

PETA calls for truth and transparency after the brand’s supplier proves previous “humane,” “above and beyond” wool standard was a farce.

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Adidas Bans Mohair, 50 Million Students Could Learn Empathy, and Other PETA Wins for August

PETA kept the heat on animal abusers everywhere in the last month of summer. Check out these huge victories PETA won for animals in August.

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screenshot from PETA Asia wool investigation in the UK
Breaking PETA Asia Investigation: Sheep in the U.K. Beaten, Stomped on, Cut, and Killed for Wool

A disturbing eyewitness investigation of the wool industry in the U.K. shows workers beating, stomping on, kicking, mutilating, and throwing around sheep.

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PETA July victories
What do Jack Daniel’s, IBM, Gucci, and Forever 21 have in common? PETA’s top news for July

These victories—which our supporters made possible—were huge. Can you believe they’re just a taste of all that we accomplished in July?

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Ralph Lauren Bans Mohair

The New York–based retail giant joined the nearly 280 companies worldwide that have pledged not to sell the cruelly obtained material.

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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?”

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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