PETA Kudo Has Indiana Connection

Dear Editor,

SHEIN, one of the world’s largest global e-commerce platforms, which has a distribution center in Indiana, recently took a big step toward kindness for all living beings — banning animal skins like fur and feathers and eliminating the sale of cruel glue and steel-jaw traps.  

Like you and I, animals are capable of love, joy, and fear—and they hurt just like us. On fur farms, animals spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages before being killed by the cheapest and cruelest methods available. Feather accessories usually come from terrified ostriches, peacocks, and other birds killed for their flesh. Animals caught in glue traps panic and struggle, which causes them to become even more helplessly stuck as the glue tears off their fur, feathers, or skin. Steel-jaw traps inflict excruciating pain, leaving animals to suffer — sometimes for days — before dying. 

Every animal is someone. May more companies “shine” a light on compassion and respect for all earthlings.

Scott Miller

The PETA Foundation