Their suffering is woven into every cashmere sweater.
   
 
 
 

Please protect animals from facing such misery and cruelty.

 
 
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Dear Aaaaaaa,

A goat's heart begins to race as a worker grabs her leg and drags her into a shed.

She's quickly thrown to the ground by a worker who violently rips her hair out with a sharp metal comb, tearing open her skin. Then she's tossed aside without any pain relief or veterinary care for her wounds.

She'll endure this abuse over and over again, until she's no longer deemed "profitable" and a worker slaughters her for cheap meat.

A groundbreaking new PETA exposé has revealed for the first time the extreme cruelty that thousands of goats are enduring right now—all for the cashmere in a sweater.

Goats in China and Mongolia produce only a few ounces of cashmere each year—meaning that roughly six gentle animals are horrifically tormented for just a single cashmere sweater. After years of this abuse, their misery ends on a bloody slaughterhouse floor, where workers strike them on the head with hammers and crudely saw into their necks. Many don't die instantly—they kick and writhe for minutes as they slowly bleed to death.

China and Mongolia produce 90% of the world's cashmere—but there, workers appear to face no penalties for their widespread abuse of animals. PETA's eyewitnesses visited more than two dozen cashmere operations in these countries for this latest exposé, and goats were found suffering on every farm.

This latest PETA exposé is showing the world that no matter what assurances companies give, cashmere is a product of cruelty.

After hearing from PETA, H&M—the second-largest clothing retailer in the world—agreed to stop selling items made with "conventional" cashmere, the only kind that it sells. PETA U.K. also helped persuade another massive global retailer, ASOS, to stop selling items made with cashmere, and today, tens of thousands of caring supporters are now joining our call for major women's apparel brand Madewell to make the same compassionate decision.

The eyewitnesses who heard goats' screams know all too well the misery behind the global skins trade. That's why we need kind PETA members like you by our side to help us reach our "Save Our Skins" goal so that we can help as many animals as possible.

 
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