Fashion retailer bans wool

Dakota Dan

After peta made a cherry picked video last year showing shearers hitting sheep.

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/boohoo-bans-wool-peta-manchester-15838662.amp

screamer

Their clothes are pretty skimpy, and seem aimed at generation snowflake. I’d doubt they had any wool to start with. Don’t be worrying.

Odelay

Gobshoites

meeeeh

Asos also banned silk and either wool or cashmere. Both retailers work on small margins and low quality materials. Cynic in me thinks they did that so they don't need to use high quality materials. They are trying to repackage cheap disposable clothing as animal friendly when it's anything but and they are two of the biggest polluters in fashion.

TooOldBoots

screamer wrote: »

Their clothes are pretty skimpy, and seem aimed at generation snowflake. I’d doubt they had any wool to start with. Don’t be worrying.

Boohoo are a massive online retailer. This is not good news any way you look at it. They may be generation snowflakes but thats 100% of the teens to 25 year olds now

drunkmonkey

Bought a bavette a few years ago, expensive but well worth it. Not sure why wool doesn't get more love. Comfortable night's sleep in winter and summer, never overheat in it.
This is all nonsense the barber has nicked me once or twice are we doing to ban them next. Pure virtue signalling nothing more.

_Brian

Hardline purists vegans don’t give a damn about the environment.

They’re quite happy to tell people to pump oil up out of the ground to meld stuff from synthetic fibres rather than use wool which is a massively renewable resource.

They don’t care that wool can be produced in countries like Ireland or the U.K., but rather more money pitched to Arab states for even more oil based products.

This is a popular move for these websites selling clothes to teenagers, they are the most gullible shoppers and it will be well received.

Farmer

Show them the inside of a sweat shop where their synthetic alternatives are coming from. Of course the blinkers would go on fast then

Rubberchikken

wool is so eco friendly but the cost of wool products is off putting for a lot of people.
completely bio degradable and just beautiful but until the price comes down too many are going to go with the synthetics.

Green farmer

Rubberchikken wrote: »

wool is so eco friendly but the cost of wool products is off putting for a lot of people.
completely bio degradable and just beautiful but until the price comes down too many are going to go with the synthetics.

Don’t known why people thinkwool is expensive. They pay farmers hardly nothing for it.

patsy_mccabe

Do you know how much the farmer gets paid for wool?

freshpopcorn

Farmer wrote: »

Show them the inside of a sweat shop where their synthetic alternatives are coming from. Of course the blinkers would go on fast then

I've looked at Boohoo.com in the past. I'm late twenties. There clothes didn't appear to be very ethical to me. Prices wise.

bogman_bass

Using phrases like “snowflake” and “virtue signaling” don’t help.

The type of person that that kind of talk apeals to never was going going vegan to start with.. remember that the battleground is 17-35, urban, and left leaning. They are the ones we want to win over and shouldn’t be driving them into the arms of vegans

farawaygrass

Ban is reversed, just seem it there on the the farmers journal

Jurgen Klopp

farawaygrass wrote: »

Ban is reversed, just seem it there on the the farmers journal

Yep they are a laughing stock getting jibes about changing their mind within a few hours

Jurgen Klopp

In fact it seems they got a lashing from one crowd that it was abuse and then got a lashing from what they thought was teh same side as "abandoning sustainable materials"

This is what happens when you listen to a small group of nutters and try to virtue signal without using your brain :pac:

Dakota Dan

bogman_bass wrote: »

Using phrases like “snowflake” and “virtue signaling” don’t help.

The type of person that that kind of talk apeals to never was going going vegan to start with.. remember that the battleground is 17-35, urban, and left leaning. They are the ones we want to win over and shouldn’t be driving them into the arms of vegans

84% go back eating meat it’s just a fad for them until the novelty wears off.

freshpopcorn

Dakota Dan wrote: »

84% go back eating meat it’s just a fad for them until the novelty wears off.

That's it in my experience with a la carte.
I've seen people say they are vegan but there clothes and what they eat generally doesn't match up.

Farmer

Boohoo’s new Irish chief in line for up to £50m in shares

Wonder is he on boards;)

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/boohoo-s-new-irish-chief-in-line-for-up-to-50m-in-shares-1.3631680?mode=amp

Dakota Dan

farawaygrass wrote: »

Ban is reversed, just seem it there on the the farmers journal

That sheep farmer on sky news spoke very well and got his point across, we need more people like him to get the message across that PETA and vegans use propaganda and lies to spread their message.

Dakota Dan

freshpopcorn wrote: »

That's it in my experience with a la carte.
I've seen people say they are vegan but there clothes and what they eat generally doesn't match up.

There’s a restaurant near me that is booming, the place is packed every night if the week. They have added a vegan menu now and are running an ad on the local radio saying that they have vegan and other healthy options, vegan doesn’t equal healthy like they try to imply.

Green farmer

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Do you know how much the farmer gets paid for wool?

About 60cent a kilo last year, doesn’t even cover cost of shearing.

Dakota Dan

Green farmer wrote: »

About 60cent a kilo last year, doesn’t even cover cost of shearing.

Yet you’ll pay well for a wool jumper. The farmer on sky mews said he gets 37p a kg and I think a £1 to shear a sheep.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Yet you’ll pay well for a wool jumper. The farmer on sky mews said he gets 37p a kg and I think a £1 to shear a sheep.

Different wool, though, Dan. Irish wool is a very coarse wool, most suited for carpets rather than clothing and even then has to be blended with finer wools. The last good price we got for wool was when China had a boom in woolen carpets and rugs, that died out out after a year or two.


Irelands Farmers on twitter last week had a wool merchant on for the week showing us what he does and what happens to the wool, worth looking up for those interested.

Say my name

How true these are but it seems Boohoo have reversed their decision on the use of wool due to a return of their senses and online outrage and calls to boycott Boohoo.

Mac Taylor

Had they any wool products?

drunkmonkey

Why doesn't somebody do wool scouring here..

Mac Taylor

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Why doesn't somebody do wool scouring here..

Cost and volume, gear is not cheap to buy and said before Irish wool is course.

tractorporn

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Different wool, though, Dan. Irish wool is a very coarse wool, most suited for carpets rather than clothing and even then has to be blended with finer wools. The last good price we got for wool was when China had a boom in woolen carpets and rugs, that died out out after a year or two.


Irelands Farmers on twitter last week had a wool merchant on for the week showing us what he does and what happens to the wool, worth looking up for those interested.

That was Gareth Wyn Jones that sky interviewed. I follow him on Twitter his sheep would be mountain ewes so I wouldn't think that much different to our.

Gareth is featured on the Welsh farm programme Ffermio he's like an intelligent Darragh.

drunkmonkey

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Cost and volume, gear is not cheap to buy and said before Irish wool is course.

It's used in clothes and bedding etc, I see on the bavette site they use Irish wool but need to get it scoured in the UK and after that it's then made over there as it's not cost effective to bring it back and forth. Seems to be a problem for Irish businesses using wool.

Dakota Dan

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Had they any wool products?

Very little I’d say.

Buford T. Justice XIX

tractorporn wrote: »

That was Gareth Wyn Jones that sky interviewed. I follow him on Twitter his sheep would be mountain ewes so I wouldn't think that much different to our.

Gareth is featured on the Welsh farm programme Ffermio he's like an intelligent Darragh.

Who isn't, though?:D

zapitastas

Is there much of a market for wool based insulation?

Green farmer

zapitastas wrote: »

Is there much of a market for wool based insulation?

If it was marketed right and a big manufacturer got behind it, I’m sure it would take off. I have some of my house done with it and it’s a far nicer product to work with then fiberglass. At the time I bought a few rolls up in Wicklow somewhere.