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December 15, 2023
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Savannah, Ga. – Vacation customers shall be met with a anxious sight on Tuesday outdoor the H&M retailer on Broughton Boulevard: pretend lifeless geese hung via their ft on a clothes rack along a row of “bloody” jackets. The motion comes courtesy of PETA, whose supporters will name out H&M’s use of cruelly produced down and urge passersby to buy just for feather-free merchandise.
When: Tuesday, December 19, 12 midday
The place: Out of doors H&M, 230-240 W. Broughton St., Savannah
A picture from PETA Asia’s investigation into Vietnamese duck farms
A PETA Asia investigation into Vietnamese duck farms and slaughterhouses—which offer providers, together with one who indexed H&M as a buyer, with purportedly “accountable” down—displays geese affected by gaping and bloody wounds within grimy sheds and on quite a bit strewn with feces being stabbed within the neck whilst nonetheless mindful. Lots of the birds persevered to transport for greater than a minute after staff slashed their necks and bring to a halt their ft. Consequently, 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 the designation is a sham—nevertheless it continues to promote down.
PETA has launched 9 exposés of the down trade, each and every one proving that dust, struggling, and violent deaths are trade norms.
“Each down merchandise is filled with the ache and struggling of terrified birds who died in agony,” says PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is asking on H&M to lend a hand finish this cruelty via banning down and is urging vacation customers to increase peace on Earth to all animals via sticking to feather-free, vegan fabrics.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to put on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
For more info, please seek advice from PETA.org, concentrate to The PETA Podcast, or observe the gang on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.