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New York – Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix is urging anybody with a coronary heart to keep away from something made with down, akin to comforters and clothes, now that main retailers, together with Hole Inc. and H&M, have been implicated in a new PETA exposé exhibiting employees stabbing and hacking aside birds for gadgets bought with the deceptively named “Accountable Down Customary” label.
“PETA Asia’s investigators went inside farms and slaughterhouses in Vietnam which can be linked to corporations that promote so-called ‘accountable’ down—together with GAP Inc., Guess, and H&M—and uncovered unspeakable cruelty to birds,” Phoenix says.
The video excerpt—which is way much less graphic than the total model obtainable at PETA.org—exhibits that birds’ throats have been slit and their toes chopped off whereas they have been nonetheless aware, and at one other slaughterhouse, geese have been seen transferring for no less than one minute after being stabbed within the throat.
“The one option to finish this cruelty and spare geese is to cease shopping for gadgets that comprise feathers,” Phoenix, a longtime vegan who doesn’t put on leather-based or wool, concludes within the video. “Please bear in mind to verify labels, and in the event that they listing ‘down’ or ‘accountable’ down, consider these geese and go away the merchandise on the rack or shelf.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals will not be ours to put on” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—provides a roundup of high-tech down-free choices on its web site. For extra info on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram, or take heed to The PETA Podcast.