{"id":2889,"date":"2009-09-15T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2014-08-18T10:29:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:29:56","slug":"what-the-fashion-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/what-the-fashion-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Fashion Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While researching Olsenhaus<\/a>, a brand I was going to write about today, I came across one of the links on their website entitled ‘What the Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know.’<\/a> Being incredibly disgusted and mortified by the brutality of animal abuse within the fashion industry, I thought I would post word for word what Olsenhaus taught me and why in fact they are a vegan line of shoes. (My post on those shoes to come. This is by all means far more important than a frilly post about hot eco-shoes.)<\/p>\n Warning…if you wish to be oblivious to the horrible ethics of the fashion industry, don’t read. If you care to be enlightened and morph into a better human being, by all means, read on and prepare yourself for some brutal images.<\/p>\n <\/a>Many pigs are still fully conscious while they are scalded with boiling water for hair removal<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Fur farmers kill animals using cruel methods of slaughter that cause extreme suffering like anal and vaginal electrocution <\/a>and skinning alive. \u00a0(UPDATE: \u00a0Fur farm\u00a0electrocution is now illegal in New York.)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a>Dogs and cats in China<\/a> are being beaten, hanged, and strangled with wire nooses so that their fur can be used for garments and accessories. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a>Producing wool, fur and leather <\/a>heavily contributes to global warming, land devastation, environmental pollution and water supply contamination. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a>To produce “Persian Lamb<\/a>” the mother sheep is killed just before giving birth and the fetus is extracted for it’s pelt.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a>Wool production involves Mulesing<\/a>, a barbaric technique where farmers force and restrain live sheep on their back and slice chunks of flesh from their tail area without painkillers.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a>Cows <\/a>endure castration, crowding, branding and tail docking without pain relief.<\/strong><\/p>\n For sources of information and in depth reading check out Olsenhaus’s “truth”<\/a> page.<\/p>\n “The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” -John Kenneth Galbraith<\/em><\/p>\n “The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the way it’s animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi<\/em><\/p>\n Enough said.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"