Animal welfare may not be the first consider while you shopping, but if you love animals like I do and don’t want wearing something that’s the result of an innocent animal being tortured mutilated, or slaughtered unnecessarily than you should read this blog, because I will expose the curtly in your wardrobe – the unexpected fashion items that are actually made of animals.
The materials for cloth that are animal productions are:
- Leather
- Fur
- Silk
- Feathers
- Bone
- Horn
- Shell
- Wool
- Cashmere
- Sterling
- Angora
- Shahtoosh
- Snakeskin
- Suede (microsuede is animal free)
- Down
- Pashmina
- Mohair
When we think of animal production clothing, the most well known for people are fur, leather, silks or shearling. Because those materials cost lives to get it, the animals have to be killed. But there’s much more than that, we often ignore the one without the requirement of murdering but not cruelty-free either. Such as wools, mohair, pashmina, cashmere, shahtoosh, down, and feathers. In the blog below I’ll be talk about how we get these materials and how to avoid animals products. Animal products can hide in unexpected places, so read the clothing label before purchasing it’s always one of the best ways to reduce.
Wool: Many people will say the sheep need to be shorn, but there’s sheep live in wild as well and as the bred nowadays have changed sheep to produce more wool. The sheep now in the farm are often crossbred with wild mouflons many times, because wild mouflons have good quality wools but they don’t need constant shearing, nature gave them fleece to protect themselves from the cold. The sheep are treated like wool machine and the shearers often don’t care about the well-being of the sheep. While shearing the sheep are kept still their legs, they’re flipped over and they are scared to death. And sheep are also sheared before it’s warm enough, so they die of exposure to the cold.
Mulesing: Mulesing is farmers in order to prevent flies from hatching eggs in the sheep’s skin, they cut a large strip of skin away from the sheep’s buttocks and around tails. The process is without any kind of anesthesia, leaving the sheep suffering from going around with bare flesh.
As you can see above, there’re tons of products are animal cruelty, but if you want to avoid them and change this situation completely will be very hard, the best solution is becomes a vegan clothing person! the Vegan here is not a crash diet or cleanse, it’s a lifestyle choice that’s all about protecting animals by avoiding animal products. Shopping vegan cloth is actually easier than you think, just look for natural, plant-based fabrics like cotton, linen, and hemp.
Many mainstream brands have vegan clothes, shoes, and accessories. Brands such as Target and Payless actually have a great selection of vegan shoes and accessories. And big names such as Givenchy, Isabel Marant, and Saint Laurent are embracing vegan leather one step at a time. It takes time but more people starting to realizing the problem and stop supporting the diabolical slaughtering of animals
Here are some vegan brands that I recommend to completely avoid animal products and make your life easier: Moo shoes, the vegan section of planet shoes or Zappos’ vegan
citation:
Fashion and Animal Welfare: Everything You Should Know Before You Buy
4 EASY WAYS TO START YOUR VEGAN LIFESTYLE
The Step-By-Step Guide To A Vegan Closet
PETA’s Vegan Clothing Shopping Guide
How to Be Vegan: What is vegan clothing?
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