What are you wearing?

Here is the reality of the Wool, Leather and Fur Industry.

Beware: your favorite leather boots might become your worst enemy.

Wool

- In the wool industry, just weeks after birth, lambs' ears are punched, their tails are chopped off, and the males are castrated, all without anesthetics.

- To prevent "flystrike" (a maggot infestation caused by wrinkly skin, which was bred into the sheep so that they would have more wool), Australian ranchers perform a barbarous operation called "mulesing," which involves carving huge strips of flesh off the backs of unanesthetized lambs' legs.

Leather

- Leather is not a slaughterhouse byproduct

- a booming industry, a driving force for the cattle industry

- accounts for two-thirds of the value of the slaughtered cattle

- the hides of "veal" calves are made into high-priced calfskin

- The economic success of slaughterhouses and factory farms is directly linked to the sale of leather goods

- Decreasing demand for both animal foods and leather products will result in fewer cows' being factory-farmed

Fur

- Animals on fur farms spend their lives in tiny cages only to be killed by anal or genital electrocution, which causes them to have a heart attack.

- Some are skinned alive

- Animals in the wild may languish for days in traps before they die or are killed.