Do Not Buy Wool

[Taylor]

http://www.peta2.com/blog/wool-sheep...m_medium=Alert

Sorry to post this but I just saw this and freaked out.
I had NO idea this was so bad.

[NikkTemplar]

Why are you apologizing about posting something extremely relevant on YOUR board?


Thanks for posting this.

[sleeper248]

This looks like it is from PETA

<RANT> No need to freak out Taylor, This looks like it is from P.E.T.A. (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). While there may be some truth to the matter, I highly doubt it is nearly as bad as depicted in the report. I think they purposely left off the end of the sentence to enhance their point: "Here’s everything that you need to know about where wool comes from and how it’s made with 100 percent cruelty." The end probably reads something like, "100 percent cruelty AT LESS THAN 1 PERCENT OF THE SHEEP FARMS." P.E.T.A. has (at least with me) lost major credibility for grossly over-exaggerating and sensationalizing reports of animal cruelty to better coincide with their agenda of trying to coerce everyone into living a purely Vegan lifestyle and treating all animals equally as, if not better than people. Admittedly there are some who mistreat their animals, but to say this is industry wide is a fallacy. Notice the photos in the article are almost if not entirely from the same place, yet they try to present them in such a way to get you to think they are from multiple farms representing a good cross section of the industry. Heaven forbid but, should I ever hit a person who ran out in front of my car, P.E.T.A. would want the same level or even harsher prosecution for hitting a squirrel or deer. I belong to the other P.E.T.A. (People Eating Tasty Animals). </RANT>

[MrMopar5]

This is good food for thought for all. I have read very recent that there is a fetish for people in the Phillipines (my spelling sucks!) that they make vids of women with high heels (stelettos) taking their shoes and stepping on puppies until they are dead! I am a huge animal lover! I have 3 cats and a horse. I used to have German Shepards as well. The more we love our animals, the more human we become! M

[stormr]

Damn, and all this time I thought PETA meant: People Eating Tasty Animals! That's a joke! I can never be a part of anything that hurts any animals!, I actually catch flies in the house and take them outside to be free!

[Blackjack]

One of the biggest issues with a lot of the claims in that article is that if any of the animal's blood gets on the wool, the wool is useless. To intentionally injure an animal that you're trying to get clean wool from would be to intentionally destroy one's own product, thereby costing you money.

Additionally, the claims that a significant amount of the sheep farms are in Australia and New Zealand are quite true, but stopping to think about it for a minute brings the realization that those nations have a significant sheep population in them. New Zealand has so many that, as the list claims, much of the greenhouse gas pollution comes from the sheep; but a lack of sheep farming wouldn't prevent that from being so unless the sheep were either sent elsewhere (which the list considers cruel) or otherwise gotten rid of (which would definitely be cruel).

This list (I refuse to call it an "article", as there's no journalism here, just a stack of photographs) is more exaggeration and misrepresentation than anything else. This is not to say that these practices don't take place, but it's unreasonable to perform them and therefore can't possibly be anywhere near as widespread as the blogger claims.

[danielsangeo]

I am an animal activist who is entirely against the mistreatment of animals. This is why I do NOT support PeTA. They have a history of lying and of harming animals. Wool production is not generally harmful to the animals (any more than going to a barber is harmful to humans). We do need to go after those that mistreat the animals, but to throw the baby out with the bathwater because of the few that mistreat the animals is a bit over-the-top.

Myself, I don't buy wool clothing because I don't like how it feels on my body but I'm not against wool as a material for clothing.