The fashion industry relies heavily on animal-derived materials (ADMs), though recent reports focus on sustainability and ethics:
: In some regions like Australia, it is illegal to feed RAM—material from a vertebrate animal, including blood meal, meat meal, and feather meal —to ruminant livestock to prevent disease transmission. 2. Fashion and Textiles animal material
: Millions of pounds of "condemned" animal material—livestock and poultry carcasses unfit for human consumption—are repurposed annually into pet food under FDA oversight. 4. Specialized and Industrial Uses including blood meal