You can hear the alpacas' piercing screams before you even enter the shearing yard.
At a facility in Peru, PETA investigators found workers roughly slamming the terrified animals—some pregnant—onto tables to shear them. The alpacas cry out as their legs are nearly wrenched from their sockets by a crude restraint device reminiscent of a medieval torture rack. Shearers quickly and carelessly set to work cutting off their coats—leaving some with deep, painful wounds.
PETA's landmark exposé of the world's largest privately owned alpaca farm shows how frightened alpacas were being horrifically abused—all for a sweater, a scarf, or a ball of yarn. We're doing all that we can to stop this misery—and today, you have a great chance to give that vital work a real boost.
A groundbreaking new PETA investigation is revealing the suffering behind items made from alpaca fleece.
PETA exposed the plight of animals at a farm owned by the world's largest exporter of alpaca tops and yarn. There, defenseless alpacas screamed, spit, and vomited in fear as they were grabbed by their sensitive ears and slammed onto a table.
Alpacas are prey animals who fear that they're about to be killed when they're restrained—leaving them terrified when workers did just that in order to shear them for their wool. They worked quickly, leaving many with bloody wounds that they crudely stitched up, without adequate pain relief. One alpaca's eyelid was apparently severed during the ordeal.
When they're no longer wanted for their coats, many will be slaughtered for food.
It's been little more than a week since The New York Times first shared PETA's latest undercover investigation with the world. Esprit is moving to phase out alpaca after talks with PETA. Gap Inc.—owner of Banana Republic, Athleta, and others—and H&M Group cut ties with the supplier that operates that farm as well.
With each passing day, our campaign's momentum is growing, and it's more critical than ever that we seize this moment to stop the trade in alpaca fleece. More than 100,000 kind people have joined our call for retailer Anthropologie to ditch alpaca wool in favor of more animal-friendly material. We won't give up until the wool stolen from abused alpacas is no longer found on store shelves.
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