{"id":116869,"date":"2020-11-21T00:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ascena-clothing-brands-to-ditch-alpaca-wool-after-peta-probe\/"},"modified":"2020-11-21T00:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:41:31","slug":"ascena-clothing-brands-to-ditch-alpaca-wool-after-peta-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ascena-clothing-brands-to-ditch-alpaca-wool-after-peta-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ascena clothing brands to ditch alpaca wool after PETA probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Ascena clothing brands to ditch alpaca wool after PETA probe<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Ann Taylor is packing up the alpaca.<\/p>\n

Ascena Retail Group, the clothing conglomerate that owns the Ann Taylor, LOFT and Lou & Grey plans to stop using wool from the llama-like creatures amid concerns from animal-rights activists about the sometimes brutal process of producing it.<\/p>\n

Ascena\u2019s brands currently sell several sweaters made with fabric blends that include alpaca. But the New Jersey-based company said it\u2019s decided to \u201cfully eliminate\u201d the famously soft fiber from its product lines after the winter 2020 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe company \u2014 in partnership with our global suppliers \u2014 has always been committed to ensuring that materials used in our app<\/a>arel products are obtained through ethical and humane processes, with a genuine regard for animal welfare issues,\u201d an Ascena spokesperson told The Post.<\/p>\n

Ascena was among dozens of major retailers that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals urged to ditch the fabric after publishing grisly findings from its undercover investigation<\/a> of Mallkini, the world\u2019s largest privately owned alpaca farm.<\/p>\n

Footage from the Peruvian farm showed workers forcing a screaming alpaca\u2019s legs into a device that PETA likened to a \u201cmedieval torture rack\u201d so they could shave the wool off its belly. The group also captured a worker standing on an alpaca\u2019s neck and others crudely stitching up wounds the animals suffered while they were shorn.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s this particular farm or it\u2019s another one, the industry as a whole is cruel to the alpacas,\u201d Laura Shields, PETA\u2019s corporate responsibility manager, told The Post. \u201cThat restraint is highly distressing to alpacas because alpacas are prey animals and they fear that they\u2019re about to be killed when they\u2019re pinned down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alpacas<\/span>PETA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While Ascena said it decided to stop using alpaca before PETA asked about it, Shields said other big fashion firms such as Uniqlo, Valentino and Columbia Sportswear have also banned the stuff.<\/p>\n

The farm PETA probed is owned by the Michell Group, which calls itself the biggest alpaca textile group in Peru. The South American country is home to about 80 percent of the world\u2019s alpaca population and is the globe\u2019s largest producer of alpaca fiber.<\/p>\n

PETA isn\u2019t certain whether Ascena gets its alpaca wool from the Michell farm, and the company didn\u2019t say who provides the fiber it uses. But Shields argued that the source doesn\u2019t matter because the poor conditions activists captured are likely \u201cstandard industry practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that these industries are cruel, so if they\u2019re selling this material they\u2019re complicit in the cruelty anyway,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Alpacas in wool shearing probe<\/span>PETA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michell acknowledged that some workers were \u201ccareless and rough\u201d with the alpacas in the footage PETA filmed. But the company said it\u2019s committed to protecting the animals and rooting out mistreatment on its farm.<\/p>\n

Overall, Michell found that only 12 of the nearly 2,400 alpacas shorn there last November, when PETA visited, required small stitches and just 21 suffered \u201cmild\u201d injuries. The firm also said it fired two workers who didn\u2019t follow the proper shearing protocols.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PETA video shows the worst minutes of a film that lasts several hours, so, without a doubt, we can state that these images constitute an isolated case, and that they in no way represent our regular practices, much less our philosophy and business culture,\u201d Michell said in a statement<\/a> after PETA released the findings of its probe.\n <\/div>\n

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