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Lamb Sunny of the animated video 'Be Their Voice!

Together we are exposing the cruelty faced by the animals used in fashion and creating a future where great fashion doesn’t cause great suffering. Change is happening thanks to people taking action, and the number of brands moving towards a kinder future for animals is growing all the time.

Let’s create a world where animal-friendly fashion is the only kind of fashion!

Animals That Suffer for Fashion

Billions of animals are used by the fashion industry every year. Some are caught from the wild, others are kept in factory farms, suffering fear and pain throughout their lives before being cruelly slaughtered when it’s no longer profitable to keep them alive, or when they are big enough for their skin or fur to be used. But it doesn’t have to be this way!

SHEEP

Sheep Wool & Mulesing

Sheep are complex creatures whose needs are often neglected. Widely used across the Australian wool industry, the mutilation practice of mulesing causes intense suffering and pain for millions of lambs annually.
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FURRY FRIENDS

Fur

In the past years up to 100 million animals are killed for their fur annually. Most are raised on farms, trapped in tiny wire cages and forced to endure a shocking life of cruelty, while millions of wild animals are also caught and killed for their fur.
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GEESE & DUCKS

Down & Live Plucking

The production of down feathers for clothing and bedding is a huge industry. Every year, billions of ducks and millions of geese endure brutal treatment to supply down feathers.
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CATTLE

Leather

Animal skins are prevalent throughout fashion. The suffering these animals face is often appalling and there is zero traceability as to their standard of care. Brutal practices persist within the domestic animal leather industries.
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REPTILES

Exotic Leather

A life of horror, for some it is ended being skinned alive Such brutal practices persist within the exotic animal leather industries. We can change this!
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ANGORA GOATS

Mohair

Curly haired mohair goats endure repeated exposure to cruel sheering processes and painful mutilations for fashion products.
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CASHMERE GOATS

Cashmere

Cashmere goats endure pain and suffering for their fine fur undercoats used in luxury textiles.
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ANGORA RABBITS

Angora

Angora rabbits endure a lifetime of torture hidden away for their soft fur.
Learn more here!

ALPACAS

Alpaca Wool

Distress and fear during the shearing of Alpacas for their fine fur.
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1. Animal-friendly fashion starts with you!

Take the pledge to Wear it Kind.

2. Make great choices

Use our Wear it Kind shopping guides to help you!

3. Protect lambs

Sign our petition to protect lambs from mulesing.

4. End the deadly fur trade!

Call on all countries to ban fur farms now!

You work for the fashion industry and want to do more?

Blogs

Publications & Guides

Be Their Voice

Watch Sunny the lamb as she uncovers the cruel truth behind live lamb cutting

Australia: Failure of World’s Biggest Wool Industry to Protect 140 Million Lambs Sparks Global Campaign

New FOUR PAWS report reveals 20 years of ignoring mutilations by the Australian wool industry

Max Mara Fashion Group Announces to Go Fur-Free

FOUR PAWS and other NGOs are applauding the company’s decision

FOUR PAWS Rates Over 200 Fashion Brands, Revealing Massive Shortcomings in Animal Welfare

South Africans among those who participated in a global YouGov poll rating fashion brands animal welfare

Introducing the Term ‘Live Lamb Cutting’ to Replace Mulesing

FOUR PAWS alongside leading animal protection groups are calling on brands, industry stakeholders, politicians and the public to adopt the term

Next gen mycelium materials on display at the ISPO conference in Munich

Fashion Forward: Next Generation Materials

Next generation materials are both animal friendly and strive for sustainability

Lamb Mortality and Live Lamb Cutting (Mulesing)

Help to end the suffering of millions of Australian lambs used for fashion

Interview with SLAY Director Rebecca Cappelli

Interview with SLAY documentary director Rebecca Cappelli on the heartbreaking reality of animal cruelty in fashion

Achieving Animal Welfare in Fashion in 2023

Our top wins from the year, plus some tips on animal-friendly gift giving for the holidays

7 Crucial Questions About Live Lamb Cutting (Mulesing) And Pain Relief

Shedding light on the silent suffering of live lamb cut sheep, and why lamb cutting with pain relief is far from the best long-term solution to dealing with flystrike

Big Names in Fashion Rated for Their Impact on Animals

Animal welfare is firmly on the agenda for many fashion brands, but turning this sentiment into action is the critical next step

Fashion Follows Trends: Animal Protection Still Not a Mainstream Piece

FOUR PAWS analysis of 100 major brands exposes critical gaps and poor performers in animal welfare

Taming Fashion: An Urgent Call to Reduce Animal Use in Fashion Sustainability Report Cover | 2023

FOUR PAWS Launches ‘Taming Fashion’ Report

A two-part report series that reveals the broad environmental and animal welfare costs of utilising animals for fashion

Nike just did it and says “no” to the mutilation of lambs

Nike Says “No” to the Mutilation of Lambs

FOUR PAWS welcomes step towards higher animal welfare by switching to certified wool

Rebecca Picallo Gil, FOUR PAWS mulesing campaigner

Global Fashion Companies Publicly Call on the Australian Wool Industry to End Mulesing

FOUR PAWS hands over open brand letter to Australian wool industry

400 International Fashion Brands oppose cruel wool

FOUR PAWS advocates for animal welfare at high-level industry event in Northern Italy

Woman wearing animal-cruelty-free fashion

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