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November 17, 2023
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Stockholm – A pointed message is on its option to H&M Team CEO Helena Helmersson over the corporate’s enhance of the down trade, which cuts the ft off reside, suffering birds and hacks at their necks with axes earlier than their feathers are crammed into jackets. The bundle—containing a pretend bloody duck foot and an “awl”—will come with a letter from PETA reminding the H&M government about the photos that displays cruelty and asking the corporate to ditch down and depart birds in peace.
Most sensible: An injured, bleeding duck at a facility that sells RDS-certified all the way down to providers. Backside: PETA has mailed a “bloody duck foot” and an “awl” to H&M’s CEO.
Opposite to H&M’s claims that “no animals will have to be harmed” within the making of its merchandise, PETA Asia’s 13-month investigation into duck farms and slaughterhouses throughout Vietnam—which offer so-called “accountable” all the way down to providers, together with person who indexed H&M as a buyer—published geese affected by gaping and bloody wounds inside of grimy sheds and on loads strewn with feces and being stabbed within the neck. At every other operation in Vietnam licensed by means of the Accountable Down Same old (RDS), geese’ ft have been bring to a halt whilst they have been nonetheless mindful. PETA Asia additionally investigated “accountable” down farms in Russia, the place a employee used to be noticed stretching the necks of ducks throughout a stump and time and again hacking at them with a lifeless awl whilst the birds shrieked and struggled. H&M has got rid of the “accountable” down label from its on-line choices within the U.S.—indicating that it is aware of that the designation is a sham—but it surely continues to promote down jackets.
“H&M’s down gross sales assist prop up an trade that exploits and slaughters terrified birds, who’ve each and every bit as a lot want to reside with out concern and ache as any of its executives do,” says PETA Government Vice President Tracy Reiman. “H&M already sells reasonably priced and trendy vegan clothes, and PETA is urging the corporate to ditch all down in desire of those cutting edge choices.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to put on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please consult with PETA.org, pay attention to The PETA Podcast, or observe the gang on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.