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November 22, 2023
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Boston – On the busiest purchasing day of the yr, passersby will probably be met with a disturbing sight outdoors a neighborhood H&M retailer: pretend useless geese hung by their toes on a clothes rack, alongside a flock of PETA supporters who will name out the corporate’s use of cruelly produced down and urge individuals to buy just for feather-free merchandise.
When: Friday, November 24, 12 midday
The place: In entrance of H&M, 100 Newbury St., Boston
A picture from PETA Asia’s investigation into Vietnamese duck farms
A PETA Asia investigation into Vietnamese duck farms and slaughterhouses—which offer so-called “accountable” all the way down to suppliers, together with one which listed H&M as a buyer—reveals geese affected by gaping and bloody wounds inside soiled sheds and on tons strewn with feces and being stabbed within the neck whereas nonetheless acutely aware. Most of the birds continued to maneuver for greater than a minute after staff reduce their necks and reduce off their toes. Because of this, H&M has eliminated 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.
PETA has launched 9 exposés of the down trade, every proving that filth, 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 looking on H&M to assist finish this cruelty by banning down and is urging vacation buyers to increase peace on Earth to all animals by sticking to feather-free, vegan supplies.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals aren’t ours to put on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data, please go to PETA.org, hearken to The PETA Podcast, or observe the group on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.
