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Offering comfort and fashion during the cold winter season, Ugg boots have been around for over 70 years and can be seen all over Monta Vista High School’s campus.
Yet this phenomenal trend started when actress Pamela Anderson from the hit TV show “Baywatch” began to model them in the late 1900’s. However, accompanying the brand’s increasing popularity is the shocking news that sheep are skinned alive to obtain the materials necessary for manufacturing the boots.There currently is no animal rights law to prevent sheep from being skinned alive.

Wearing a dead animal around your feet should not sound appealing to anyone. And not only do Ugg boots encourage the trend of viciously killing animals, but they also harm your feet. According to Dr. Rock Positano, Director of the Non-surgical Foot and Ankle Service for the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, this footwear does not give enough necessary support for the foot or ankle.

Once PETA heard about the treatment of these animals, it campaigned and spread the word against buying Ugg boots. In 2007 even Anderson, an animal lover herself, publicly criticized Uggs and threw away her own pair, trying to convince the public to do the same.

There is, however, the argument from Ugg supporters that the wool needed to manufacture Uggs is simply a by-product of the utility of sheep meat in the food industry. Regardless, the situation is made worse by the fact that the animals must then be skinned alive rather than dead in order to let the animal bleed to death, ensuring a higher quality of meat. This is not only cruel, but also unnecessarily painful for the animals and animal lovers alike.

So for the expensive cost of around $150, you get the package deal of dead sheep and aching feet.