UK High Street Brand Promise Not To Use Animal Feathers

In response to the appeal of PETA, the British high street brand Including Topshop, ASOS, Whistles, Warehouse, Primark and Oasis promise not to use animal feathers.

In May this year, PETA released a video of all kinds of birds picking their feathers in Chinese farms. Despite previous brands prohibiting the pleating of goose feathers, the retail suppliers concerned still received the certification of Responsible Down Standard. At present, China is the source of the world's 80% feather material.

Yvonne Taylor, senior manager of PETA project, pointed out that fashion The brand is just as cruel as Angola wool. Now consumers want the industry to prohibit the production of poultry feathers. PETA will continue to work with British retailers to produce feather substitute products using environmentally friendly or high-tech synthetic methods to produce low sensitive, warm and environmentally friendly fillers.

In December 2014, after receiving more than 100 thousand e-mails and materials expressing inhuman conditions in twitter and Facebook, the British fashion company said it had stopped using Angola rabbit hair immediately. clothing And accessories production applications.

Angola rabbit hair products were very hot in 2013. However, after the exposure of the brutal living rabbit hair, a strong boycott of rabbit hair products was launched, and the major brands and retail tycoons went on the shelves of the products containing Angola rabbit hair. According to the daily mail of the UK, many brands have begun replacing fur like products with other fur products to reduce this brutal way of getting wool.

In April of this year, PETA PETA took the lead in the luxury brand Prada. PETA had purchased part of the Prada stake in order to protest against the killing of animals and make leather handbags from inside the group. The survey showed that the young ostrich was slaughtered and used by Prada to make its expensive handbag. The statement of the organization: "PETA members of the United States made a solemn negotiation in the Prada conference room, directly interrogation the company and ordered them to use ostrich skin to make handbags."

In July last year, the incident of killing crocodiles occurred in Hermes. The Peta asked Hermes to ban the use of rare animal skins as raw materials, including crocodile leather handbags and watchbands. After watching the film released by PETA, Jane Birkin asked Hermes to rename the crocodile bag and remove Birkin from her handbag, but later the two sides reconciled.