{"id":6873,"date":"2011-04-11T04:30:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2011-04-11T04:30:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T11:30:23","slug":"wools-dirty-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/wools-dirty-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Wool’s Dirty Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wools<\/p>\n

While green fashionistas may look at wools as natural, eco-friendly fabrics, there’s a dark side to the wool industry that might change how you feel about knits.<\/h3>\n

While I was doing research for a vegan crafting mini-series<\/a> over at Crafting a Green World, I was looking for information on common animal products and found some heart-wrenching information about the wool industry.<\/p>\n

We’ve touched on the leather industry’s mistreatment of animals<\/a> in the past, and you might assume that since we don’t kill sheep for wool that it’s a humane fiber. Unfortunately, in the case of most commercial wool, that’s far from the truth<\/a>. Elizabeth Gordon at This Dish is Veg goes into great detail about the horrors of wool’s production<\/a>. Here’s a (caution: very graphic)<\/em> video depicting the meusling practice that Gordon describes in her article:<\/p>\n

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