Exploitation for fashion
Why are we fighting against the exploitation of animals for fashion?
Suffering in the name of fashion should no longer be tolerated.
One Voice denounces current practices, particularly through its investigative images, and promotes cruelty-free fashion!
All over the world, animals destined for the fashion industry, which is heavily influenced by France, are subjected to real torture. Sacrificed for their fur, skin or hair, their lives are nothing but suffering. One Voice’s investigators have infiltrated French mink and angora rabbit farms, and chinchilla farms in Eastern Europe. Their images leave no doubt as to what they are subjected to. Representing France in the Fur Free Alliance, One Voice is developing ethical fashion programmes in our country.
Fur: cruelty and pollution through and through
Hundreds of millions of animals are sacrificed every year for their fur, trapped or bred on farms before being skinned. While China is the biggest producer, France’s role is far from negligible. Until 2021, France played a major role in this industry. On the one hand through its production: the mink farms in America all ended up closing down after an intense campaign by One Voice and its partners, and in the same year, all farming of wild animals for their fur was banned (which prevented conversions to fox farming, for example); and on the other hand, through its influence as the spearhead of the global luxury sector.
One Voice’s action is as much international, where its partnerships, particularly in China but also on the American continent, aim to change regulations and practices, as it is in France and Europe, where its investigations have shed light on the hidden face of animal farms. In the farms where the animals are reared, his images reveal the pollution and horror of the existence of animals that know no respite, from the conditions in which they are kept to the moment they are killed. However, since the 2021 law against animal cruelty, fur has continued to be produced in France, notably from rabbits, which are not farmed under the law because they are not wild animals.
Angora: the French way
Although Angora rabbits are not killed to collect their hair, what they endure on French farms is no less terrible. One Voice’s investigators have infiltrated the French industry, which is supposedly reputed for its good practices compared to the Chinese producers who supply 90% of the hair sold, and whose suffering inflicted on the rabbits is already causing controversy. But the cries of French rabbits are no less piercing. With their hair, the skin is ripped off. They suffer every time they have their hair removed, and have only a semblance of life between sessions, isolated in cages, prey to cold and boredom. The Ministry of Ecology has opposed progress in this area, but we haven’t given up.
Leather: suffering, pollution and untruths
Leather production is closely linked to the industrial farming of animals for meat, but also to specific sectors: reptiles, ostriches, kangaroos, etc. Animals sacrificed for their skins suffer at every stage of their lives, from rearing and transport to killing. But leather is also about the processing of skins, which is not only highly polluting but also toxic to human health, to the point of endangering the lives of those involved.
Fur, like leather, requires a succession of stages in the tanning and dyeing of skins, often carried out abroad, where working conditions and pay are much lower than in France and Europe. This only strengthens our determination to encourage other ways of dressing than at the expense of animals and humans, as well as nature.
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Don't be an accomplice to the torture of mink, foxes, rabbits or calves trapped or bred and killed for their skin or hair!
Don't buy clothes or accessories containing animal products. We refuse to participate in the depilation of Angora rabbits!
