The video shows frightened goats screaming in pain as workers forcefully tug hair off their bodies with metal combs. After years of this abuse, the goats are destined for a slow and painful death in slaughterhouses.
TRACY YOU: ‘A shocking undercover investigation has revealed how workers in Asia savagely rip hair off goats to fuel the global cashmere trade. The agonised animals are then sent to slaughterhouses to be cruelly killed, according to the new study from an animal welfare organisation. The research was conducted between last year and early this year on 20 farms in China and Mongolia, two of the world’s largest cashmere producers.
Disturbing footage released by PETA, the charity behind the project, shows frightened goats screaming in pain as workers forcefully tug hair off their bodies with metal combs. Once proven useless to their owners – usually after years of abuse – the goats are destined for a slow and painful death, according to the PETA report. The investigation shows workers selling the ‘useless’ goats to slaughterhouses for their skin and meat. In the abattoirs, the animals get bashed in the head with hammers, slit in the throat before being left to die, it is found…
PETA’s exposé of the grim situation in cashmere’s source countries has prompt popular high street brand H&M to react. The Swedish fashion label vows to stop using ‘conventional cashmere’ by the end of 2020 and to only use the animal fibre if it’s ‘sustainable sourced’. An H&M spokesperson said the company had set the goal of banning cashmere a few years ago, and PETA’s report highlighted the animal welfare issues to them and prompted them to take actions…
According to PETA, one goat produces only 8.5 ounces of cashmere hair per year, and in order to make one cashmere jacket, the hair of six goats is required. Cashmere hair is usually sorted, cleaned and refined in Asia before being transported to Europe to be sold to designers for roughly £90 a pound… In Europe, Italy and UK are the main consumers of cashmere due to high market demand. In 2016, the two countries consumed 97.25 per cent of the cashmere sent to Europe, according to a latest market report… PETA urges consumers to stop buying cashmere products in order to stop such cruelty towards animals’. SOURCE…
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