Animal-rights group PETA is urging Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand Goop to stop using wool gruesomely culled from fluffy angora rabbits at Chinese factories, which most big brands stopped using due to animal cruelty concerns.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is launching a social media campaign aimed at pressuring Goop by showing footage of the creatures screaming as their fur gets violently ripped out by hand or shaved, leaving them bloody and terrified.
“Goop says it doesn’t mind being the tip of the spear – that it goes first so others don’t have to. But in the case of angora, Goop is last. Now is the time to catch up,” PETA President Tracy Reiman wrote Paltrow in September.
The Post has sought comment from Goop. PETA said the Santa Monica, Calif.-based company has yet t

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