Incidentally, the production of wool is very cruel. Not very much of it is organic, either. Animals need their coats to keep them warm. We don't really have the right to steal their fur for ourselves. Have you heard of the practice called mulesing, where the baby lambs in Australia are turned upside down in buckets and then someone cuts all the fur and SKIN off the area under their tails with shears? They can hardly walk afterwards, and many of them die. Of course this is done without any anaesthesia. It takes about 76 days for the wounds to heal, if they do. The little lambs are in shock from the procedure. It is done so maggots don't live in their wool, but Merino sheep live comfortably in Scotland, where it is cold, not Australia, and never should have been bred there.
The lambs that survive and grow up eventually grow old and stop producing enough wool, so the farmers ship them to the Muslim countries on ships where many of them die with broken limbs from crowding. They are terrified, and not fed or given adequate water. When they arrive in the Middle East they are brutally unloaded and sold for Muslim religious ceremony religious sacrifices, so after years of cruelty and pain and fear they end up with their throats slit.
Once I found out about these practices I decided I didn't want to participate in this kind of cruelty. If anyone is interested in finding out more about mulesing, you can watch this video, though:
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