Angora: a vintage and trendy cruel fashion
L’association Peta France demande à la marque American Vintage de renoncer à l’angora dans ses vêtements. Soutenons cet appel pour faire cesser cette mode sanglante.
While more and more big brands are turning away from angora, American Vintage – a French company – continues to use it in the making of some of its clothes. Let’s support Peta France’s call to make them listen to reason!
American
Vintage claims a philosophy based on being essential, natural, with
finesse and well-being: “A fashion of its time that restores its
nobility to the notions of simplicity and authenticity.”1
Alas,
the smoothness of the sales arguments should not make us forget the
barbarism of certain practices… The beautiful spirit of this French
clothing brand seems to be lost when procuring some of its “basic”
compounds… that being angora! The soft sweater that awaits your
shoulders to cover them tenderly, was made at a price from the untold
suffering of rabbits tortured for their hair !
100% “harsh” wool
Peta France launched a campaign requesting American Vintage to stop using
angora. But the company continues to turn a deaf ear to this request.
It has merely made its self-scarce, in reaction to publishing a
statement referring to audits and controls of its Chinese suppliers.
This is equivalent to a non-response: whatever its operating mode,
any reference to an ethical angora does not exist! Our surveys in
2016 and 2018, in 6 French farms, have shown that the production of
this wool is cruel, including in our country … Rabbits are
screaming in pain everywhere !
Let us be heard!
We therefore urge you to
support the campaign of Peta France and to contact American Vintage
to ask them to give up maintaining this sector of horror. Between the
abominable conditions of detention that these rabbits live in (tiny
and sordid hutches), their hair removal or radical shearing once they
are held down (hairs plucked out one by one for long hours or even by
hand, sometimes it means tearing out the skin) several times a year
and at the end of their life to finish in laboratories or to be
slaughtered. There is no shortage of arguments to denounce this
industry !
You
can react or act on social networks and brand accounts:
or
send your letters by post to the attention of the management of the
company, at the address of its head office: American Vintage – 84
allée de Stockholm – 83870 Signes.
1https://journal.americanvintage-store.com/a-propos/philosophie/.