{"id":124885,"date":"2010-06-22T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peta.org\/issues\/wool-industry\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T02:12:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:12:01","slug":"wool-industry","status":"publish","type":"issue","link":"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/issues\/animals-used-for-clothing\/wool-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wool Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Sheep are gentle individuals who, like all animals, feel pain, fear, and loneliness. But because there’s a market for their fleece and skins, they’re treated as nothing more than wool-producing machines.<\/p>\n

If they were left alone and not genetically manipulated, sheep would grow just enough wool to protect themselves from temperature extremes. The fleece provides them with effective insulation against both cold and heat.<\/p>\n

Shearers are usually paid by volume, not by the hour, which encourages fast work without any regard for the welfare of the sheep<\/a>. This hasty and careless shearing leads to frequent injuries, and workers use a needle and thread to sew the worst wounds shut\u2014without any pain relief. Strips of skin\u2014and even teats, tails, and ears\u2014are often cut or ripped off during shearing.<\/p>\n\n\t\t

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