‘I Thought They Just Shaved the Sheep’: Edinburgh Local, TV Star Meryl Williams and Others React to PETA Wool Videos

Edinburgh – In a new video for PETA, The Traitors winner and Edinburgh local Meryl Williams; fellow winner Aaron Evans; former Love Island cast members Kady McDermott and Abigail Rawlings; reality star and content creator Shabaz Ali, aka “Shabaz Says”; Married at First Sight UK star Jenna Robinson; vegan content creator Nicole Whittle; and Loaded in Paradise star Amelia Bell react with tears and outrage to video footage from PETA exposés of the wool, mohair, cashmere, alpaca, and angora industries.

“I thought they just shaved the sheep,” says a tearful Williams in the video, while McDermott and Rawlings also start crying and Evans covers his face and proclaims, “I hate this so much!”

PETA entities have released dozens of videos revealing that workers hit, kick, and mutilate gentle sheep for their wool; leave vulnerable goats with bloody, gaping wounds at mohair and cashmere operations; tie down and mutilate pregnant, crying animals for alpaca wool; and subject screaming rabbits to violent plucking, during which they are tied up and held down and their soft hair is torn out by the fistful, for angora.

“To have watched people actually stand on them, to shear them until they’re bleeding, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to look at the wool industry or anything the same ever again,” says Ali. Meanwhile, McDermott has a message for consumers: “Check the label,” and avoid purchasing all animal-derived clothing. Fortunately, many top retailers offer clothing made of natural eco- and animal-friendly vegan fabrics, including organic cotton, linen, Tencel, and hemp.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, or Instagram.

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Sascha Camilli +44 (0) 20 7923 6244; [email protected]

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