For immediate release:
June 14, 2021
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Moira Collie 202-483-7382
New York – After meeting PETA and watching the group’s first-of-its-kind revelation showing that crying alpacas were brutally shaved, cut open and left bleeding from deep wounds, a Manhattan-based high fashion company Vince Holding Corp. agreed to ban alpaca fleece for all of its brands, including Vince, Rebecca Taylor and Parker. PETA sends a box of delicious vegan chocolates to the company as a token of gratitude.
“No one should be terrorized and cut into a scarf or sweater,” says PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman. PETA welcomes the compassionate decision of Vince Holding Corp. recognize alpacas as individuals, not clothes, and leave their fur off their shelves. “
PETA footage shows workers throwing alpacas, some of them pregnant, onto tables, tying them tightly to a counter by their legs, and pulling them hard, nearly knocking their legs out of their sockets. Frightened animals spat, screamed and vomited with fear when workers grabbed them by the ears, roughly cut them, roughly sewed up bloody cuts and threw them on the concrete floor.
Vince Holding Corp. previously banned the use of mohair after PETA exposure and appeal. Now the company is joining Valentino, Lands’ End, Williams Sonoma, UNIQLO, Esprit, Ann Taylor, LOFT, Columbia, Express and many more brands in banning alpaca – and PETA is urging Anthropologie to follow suit.
PETA, whose motto is in part that “the animals are not ours” – opposes arrogance, a worldview focused on human superiority. Photos from the investigation are available here. For more information please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…