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December 13, 2023
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San Angelo, Texas – These days, PETA despatched a letter to San Angelo Mayor Brenda Gunter and the San Angelo Town Council urging them to reject the Public Artwork Fee’s faulty denial of PETA’s utility to show a statue of a sheep—known as “E(n)d Shearin’” after the singer Ed Sheeran—that’s adorned with messages created via famend New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss describing how those mild animals undergo within the wool trade. Participants of the fee that defied the statue known as it “no longer have compatibility for downtown” and “opposite to San Angelo’s historical past,” remarks that defy American values of inclusivity and freedom of expression. PETA notes that the town council’s adoption of the fee’s rejection of “E(n)d Shearin’” would violate the gang’s First Modification rights.
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Within the enchantment, PETA issues out that the town—as soon as referred to as the “Wool Capital of the International”—already presentations 110 sheep statues however no longer one addressing how sheep are incessantly crushed, mutilated, and violently killed for wool, as proven in PETA undercover movies on each continent excluding Antarctica.
“Sheep really feel ache and concern, love their flock contributors, and don’t should be reduce to ribbons for wool, one thing that occurs in each shearing shed we’ve got visited,” says PETA Government Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is urging Mayor Gunter and the remainder of the town council to be sure that “E(n)d Shearin’” takes its lawful position downtown in order that individuals who see it perceive the struggling at the back of wool sweaters and scarves and make a choice to put on vegan. Shearing isn’t only a haircut —it’s incessantly a frightening, painful process.”
PETA investigations have exposed cruelty to sheep at over 100 wool operations international—even at “accountable” farms, the place shearers were observed punching, stomping, kicking, and throwing round sheep. Shearers are incessantly paid via quantity, incentivizing them to paintings briefly, and sheep are incessantly left bloodied and in ache in consequence. The gaping wounds led to via careless shearers are then crudely stitched up with a needle and thread—with out painkillers. Thankfully, maximum best shops be offering clothes manufactured from herbal eco- and animal-friendly vegan materials, together with natural cotton, linen, Tencel, and modal.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals aren’t ours to put on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info, please discuss with PETA.org, pay attention to The PETA Podcast, or apply the gang on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.