Vegan Clothing - At What Cost Do We Look Good

People today are now opting for vegan clothing to help curtail barbaric acts on animals for fashion. To have clothing labeled as vegan, it means no animals have been slaughtered or used in any way in the making of it.

Vegan clothing does not have fur, leather, wool, or silk. I remember when I was a teenage and fur was all the rage. Everyone was wearing it and thought it looked good. Even back then I always said it looked better on the animal and should stay there.

Fur is the cruelest of all. Animals in the wild can struggle in traps for days before being finished off by trappers by stomping their heads, clubbing, or strangling. One in four will chew off their own foot or leg to escape. An animals instinct to live is as strong as any humans. Animals such as fox, mink, and otter are raised on farms for their fur. They are put to death by gas, electrocuted, or poisoned or just by snapping their necks.

Next up is leather. Leather is made mostly from cows, which have been slaughtered for meat. Dairy cows who no longer can yield the dairy farmer a profit are used for leather. Cows are taken to the slaughterhouse in overcrowded transports. Harsh treatment such as beating often happens as handlers force the cows to the killing floor where they have their throats cuts.

Your silk clothing comes from the silkworm. The silkworm and the larvae are killed by being immersed in boiling water. This is done to unravel cocoon for the silk fibers.

Many people will argue that wool is not cruel as the animal is kept alive. There are many ways to suffer that does not include your death. Although taking a sheep's wool does not kill them, there is a practice called "mulesing" which entails strapping the sheep to a fence upside down and cutting the flesh out of their backsides, so that flies will not lay there eggs there.

Vegan clothing is the wave of the future. The way animals are treated to make someone feel good about their looks and clothes is truly a crying shame.