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Animals, and how they are hurt in the process.
Animals, and how they are hurt in the process.
Annually more than 60 million animals are overcrowded, mutilated and slaughtered in the name of fashion, born and die in captivity. Not only are cows used to create our shoes, accessories, coats, but also pigs, fish, horses, zebras, minks, foxes, chinchillas, beavers, otters, coyotes, kangaroos, crocodiles, camels, lynxes, goats, caimans, and the list goes on. Llama alpaca, vicuña, sheep to use their wool. Worms to make silk. Goose feathers and spider webs. Skins, hides, feathers and antlers are plucked, for use by people. (Le Bobu).
Annually more than 60 million animals are overcrowded, mutilated and slaughtered in the name of fashion, born and die in captivity. Not only are cows used to create our shoes, accessories, coats, but also pigs, fish, horses, zebras, minks, foxes, chinchillas, beavers, otters, coyotes, kangaroos, crocodiles, camels, lynxes, goats, caimans, and the list goes on. Llama alpaca, vicuña, sheep to use their wool. Worms to make silk. Goose feathers and spider webs. Skins, hides, feathers and antlers are plucked, for use by people. (Le Bobu).
Microplastics
Microplastics
The fashion industry can also make humans ingest microfibers and plastics by putting clothes in the wash and then microfibers are ejected into the ocean, where they are eaten by krill, who are then passed up the food chain, all the way to us humans. Microplastics can also enter the body by wearing polyester, because when polyester is washed, loose microplastics are left on the garment. When polyester microfabrics enter the body, they can cause disease and even death. This also harms animals because they are the ones ingesting the microfibers.
Photo Credits: [Jellyfish swimming in microplastics]. (n.d.). Sgs Dicomply. https://www.digicomply.com/blog/microplastics-in-seafood
Industrial Waste
Industrial Waste
Waste occurs at every stage of the garment manufacturing process, harming wildlife, degrading land, and polluting soil and (waterbiologicaldiversity.org). This means that animals and plants are losing habitats and getting their resources sucked away from them because of the fashion industry.
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