Loxie
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The reel issue with Australian Merino wool production is mulesing.You just use rubber bands. Same for castration. Cut off the blood supply and they die and drop off.
The reel issue with Australian Merino wool production is mulesing.You just use rubber bands. Same for castration. Cut off the blood supply and they die and drop off.
Hmm, just googled. Not good.The reel issue with Australian Merino wool production is mulesing.
Yes I know, thats not what they were doing, ****ing disgusting. . .You just use rubber bands. Same for castration. Cut off the blood supply and they die and drop off.
Yep, gathered that now.Yes I know, thats not what they were doing. . .
And what about the RSPB culling deer on their land and NATURESCOT (new name for Scot Natural Heritage quango) moving the doe season forward to September.Its all about perspective really. There are getting on for ten times as many buzzards breeding in the UK than cormorants. As anglers we want to cull cormorants because they kill "our" salmon. I think we all have to understand that culling predators is controversial and unlikely to make any of us any friends.
Patagonia is a company with a strong ethos, I agree. They make some good, if expensive,products. Not for nothing were they called Patagucci in Chamonix for many years. Through skiing, climbing & now fishing, I've used their probucts for more years than I can remember, however they currently sponsor a group of aggressive anti-field sports activists. It could be that they have been persuaded that this group are something other than they are, I don't know, but until that sponsorship ends I cannot and will not purchase another piece of their gear.I think we should be careful on threads like this. Generally my view is that Patagonia as a company try hard to do good and have really pushed other out door companies to use recycled and ethically produced materials and have supported many good environmental causes.
maybe they shouldn’t be supporting this group. I don’t pretend to know enough about it to jump up and down and say there stuff is all over priced rubbish and I will never use it again. If an official body contacts Patagonia on this issue and points out why their support is maybe misguided then maybe they will listen and change.
I will continue to use some of their products which are excellent and produced with an ethos that I support. They are also a positive force in trying to stop fish farming and should be supported for this in my view.
Fair enough and I don’t disagree with anything you say.Patagonia is a company with a strong ethos, I agree. They make some good, if expensive,products. Not for nothing were they called Patagucci in Chamonix for many years. Through skiing, climbing & now fishing, I've used their probucts for more years than I can remember, however they currently sponsor a group of aggressive anti-field sports activists. It could be that they have been persuaded that this group are something other than they are, I don't know, but until that sponsorship ends I cannot and will not purchase another piece of their gear.
I can find no way of making a protest to Patagonia on their website so perhaps threads like this, where people show their anger, is exactly what is needed. They will see it, make no mistake.
Fishing - particularly salmon fishing where we are targetting a vulnerable species - will be on the radar of groups like this and sooner or later ghillies and rods will start to be intimidated and followed.
Good point. I have sent communication on the issue to interested parties and I hope they will open a dialogue with the company.Fair enough and I don’t disagree with anything you say.
whoever represents those being wronged by this group need to present good evidence to Patagonia on this issue. If I knew more about it I may also consider e.mailing them directly as there is a contact facility on their website. If there is official representation and people with knowledge contact through the website I am sure they will take notice. How they react to this representation is how I will personally judge them and decide if I will carry on buying their products.
I agree with you that they may notice this thread as they will have people who trawl social media. If that’s true then
PATGONIA Please take a look at this group you are supporting and listen to any evidence you receive of practices which go against your own ethos
The Fitz Rot t-shirts are very very nice.Patagonia ....some nice gear, better fit for women than men, men’s sizing are modelled on obese American men, their jackets also leak like a sieve. Other than that cool company, love their Fitz Roy t-shirts. No problem here.
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£40 for a t-shirt....are you f*****g mad...Patagonia ....some nice gear, better fit for women than men, men’s sizing are modelled on obese American men, their jackets also leak like a sieve. Other than that cool company, love their Fitz Roy t-shirts. No problem here.
DCH 👁
I find Patagonia a better fit than Simms, both Orvis and Simms are huge for their relative size.Patagonia ....some nice gear, better fit for women than men, men’s sizing are modelled on obese American men, their jackets also leak like a sieve. Other than that cool company, love their Fitz Roy t-shirts. No problem here.
DCH 👁
Sales for this Aberdonian£40 for a t-shirt....are you f*****g mad...![]()
Yep I always buy Patagonia and Simms stuff in sales. Always a bargain to be foundSales for this Aberdonian![]()
No-one will see it under your kappa hoodie mate...Sales for this Aberdonian![]()
No-one will see it under your kappa hoodie mate...
GWCT submit all of their research through the peer review process. They are entirely independent, and a charity that must remain so to fulfill the Charity Commission obligations. More to the point, Wild Justice didn’t even critique their evidence in a recent judicial review. GWCT are the world leaders in biodiversity and ecosystem research of upland habitats.Well, they are hardly going to be independent. I was thinking more about biodiversity researchers.
it’s a tricky business since Patagonia have done more to fight fish farms than any other company in the world as far as I’m aware.
Ooo oh, and those nano puff hoodies and trousers..... those gorgeous snuggles...
(not so sure about the €550 wading boots?)