The Argument For Wool

Odessa Denby
5 min readMar 10, 2021

As trends toward animal-free products gain popularity, it’s clear that there must be one exception: wool.

Photo by Kiki Falconer on Unsplash

I remember the first time I saw Peta’s anti-wool campaign. Images of bloody and battered lambs as the apparent result of the violence of sheep-shearing were shocking to me. Not because they opened my eyes to the evils of wool, but because I grew up in an agricultural community and had family members who raised sheep. I…

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Odessa Denby

Professional writer and editor, former expat. Conscientious lifestyle and relationships, mental health, and the arts.