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Icebreaker Merino Everyday Tops Closeout

Oct 12, 2016

Don't buy wool products guys. The sheep are mutilated and abused in the vast majority of farms. You have the power to stop cruelty with each purchase.

Buy cozy cotton or strong hemp! :)

Axeguy

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Oct 13, 2016

AwesomeTomWatching the undercover video of the industrial shearing process was eye-opening. I was wondering where all the sociopaths were getting jobs; now I know. At over 7 billion of us, we become so complacent as to effectively turn a blind eye to the sort of suffering that underpins our world-wide consumer-driven culture. I'll decline any new wool (very hard to do in a Northern climate) and ask more questions. Thank you.

redchili

Oct 30, 2016

AwesomeTomAwesomeTom- The sheep in the video you posted have nothing to do with Icebreaker. I would invite you to visit a Merino station in New Zealand and see for yourself. http://www.icebreaker.com/en/icebreaker-ethics/how-we-treat-animals.html

redchili

Oct 30, 2016

AxeguyAxeguy- Icebreaker does not work with growers who practice mulesing. Don't let AwesomeTom hoodwink you into thinking all sheep are treated this way. Thanks for saying you'll ask more questions. Here's a good place to start.
http://www.icebreaker.com/en/icebreaker-ethics/how-we-treat-animals.html

AwesomeTom

Oct 30, 2016

redchiliMate I'd love to see the farm for myself, looks like a beautiful place on the website. Is this an all expenses paid trip? I'm only across the pond :)

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AwesomeTom

Nov 16, 2016

redchiliI have a few questions which the website did not answer: Do your sheep breed naturally, or are they forcefully impregnated by humans? What happens when the sheep stop producing enough wool, are they slaughtered or allowed to die naturally of old age? Are the sheep just being sheered and taken care of until they mature enough for the mutton industry? What is the average time taken to sheer a sheep, is it 30 seconds of brutalization as in the video? Are all of these sheep specifically bred to grow too much wool and die of heat-exhaustion when not sheered?
Direct cruelty aside, having 30+ million sheep added artificially to NZ's landscape is an environmental disaster, from being the leading contributor to global warming in NZ, to water pollution. So the harm doesn't stop at the sheep.

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