Qurate Retail Group and Williams-Sonoma Ban Mohair

After hearing from PETA, global retailers Qurate Retail Group – which owns QVC, HSN, zulily, among others – and Williams-Sonoma– which also owns Pottery Barn and West Elm – made the business-savvy decision to ban mohair! They join more than 340 brands worldwide that have ditched the cruelly-obtained fiber once they learned that shearers-who are paid by volume, not by the hour-worked recklessly, leaving angora goats with gaping, bloody wounds. And unwanted goats died in agonizing ways: One worker slowly cut their throats with a dull knife while they were fully conscious and then broke their necks, hacking one animal’s head off. Others were hauled to a slaughterhouse, where they were electrically shocked, hung upside down, and slashed across the throat. Please urge Free People to follow their lead and drop mohair.

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 Ingrid E. Newkirk

“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?” READ MORE

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