Protesters call for wool industry boycott
ANIMAL rights protesters staged a demonstration in Exeter city centre to show the alleged suffering of animals within the wool industry.
Members of Exeter Friends for Animals vegetarian campaigning organisation, Viva! played out a cameo showing a group of 'sheep' revolting against 'Bo Beep' over their stolen wool — and called for a consumer boycott of the industry.
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Felicity Richards, dressed as Bo Peep, leads a protest in Bedford Square by Viva, the animal rights group, against the alleged cruelty of the wool industry LAURENCE UNDERHILL EE180309_LU02_02
Sharon Howe, from Exeter Friends for Animals, said: "It's great that more and more people are expressing their opposition to factory farming by giving up meat and going veggie, but many don't realise the animal suffering that goes into the clothes and accessories we wear.
"We're keen to get this message across to the public so they will join us in boycotting wool."
For more information, visit www.thebigcoverup.org.uk or call 0117 944 1000 or email fiona@viva.org.uk.
Comments
by Misa, UK
Saturday, March 21 2009, 2:06PM
“GOOD LORD. I'm a vegetarian, and am pro ethical farming, so don't think I'm some hideous animal abuser.. But shearing sheep? If they weren't shorn, come summer they'd suffer from heat stroke and they would be eaten alive by flies. Sometimes I wonder whether these people know the first thing about animals.”