London – Leading wool-supply firm Chargeurs has cut all ties
with Argentinian sheep farm Estancia el Trebol following the release of
undercover footage from animal rights organization PETA, which depicts
extreme animal cruelty.
In the film, workers at the farm are seen cutting off parts of lambs’ ears,
cutting off their tails and placing tight rings around male lambs scrotums
as a form of castration without any anaesthetics. In addition, shearers are
shown punching sheep in the face with clippers during shearing, throwing
them to the ground whilst kicking and stamping them. Afterwards the injured
sheep, which are cut and bleeding, have their wounds hastily and painfully
stitched up.
“Chargeurs had assured customers that its partners were in compliance with
animal-welfare standards, yet PETA US found shearers at a farm it had
trusted for years standing on sheep and kicking, hitting and cutting them,
so we know that there’s no such thing as ‘humane wool'”, commented PETA
founder Ingrid Newkirk. Following the release of it undercover footage,
PETA has launched an online campaign to urge Chargeurs to shift to
supplying vegan wool.
“Chargeurs’ decision to cut ties with this farm is an excellent first step,
but the only guaranteed way to protect gentle sheep from abuse is to switch
to 100 percent vegan wool. So we urge the company to do so now,” added
Newkirk. Chargeurs, an international company that specialises in
the production of wool and the exportation of other apparel, has its head
office located in Paris but is based in over 45 countries.
Their decision to cut ties with Estancia el Trebol comes not long after the
group published another expose on sheep farming network Ovis 21, which saw
the likes of and cut ties with the supplier.
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