When PETA released footage in 2019 showing frightened goats in China and Mongolia crying out in pain as their hair was ripped out with metal combs, consumers were appalled and companies were left scrambling. Dozens of brands cut ties with the cashmere industry, but others devised ways to keep right on selling it, hiding behind sham animal welfare “standards.”

Hunting’s a blood sport, and it doesn’t teach children or anyone else anything about self-worth. What it does teach them is that the lives of other beings—who, like them, experience fear and feel pain—are worthless.