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[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 38 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Like real pashmina, shahtoosh is also from the Himalayas—it was a choice wrap for the 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar the Great—but instead of goat hair, shahtoosh is made from the underfur of the chiru, a species of antelope indigenous to the Tibetan Plateau in China. The problem is that these majestic animals must be killed before their wool can be removed. As a result, since 1975, the species has been classified as endangered."

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 28 points 11 months ago

No explanation in the article about why they "have to be killed before their wool can be removed." Wikipedia only says, "As undomesticated wild animals, the chirus cannot be shorn, so they are killed for this purpose."

I have to think that there is a way to harvest the wool without killing the animals, but that the people who want to harvest the wool don't have the resources to do it.

this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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