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Thank god for merino wool! (feddit.uk)

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Weather app fail this morning, dressed for the -1 not so much for the torrent of rain that accompanied it mid-ride. Trousers soaked but lucky I had my merino wool base layers on held up enough on the water but more importantly the temperature. All hail, premium sheep hair!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

Have you tried falling through ice into a river yet?

I don’t know how my jacket is gonna stop my shoes from getting wet and causing my toes to freeze off in this case? But even if I personally don’t have the survival skills for that situation, I don’t think the jacket would be the issue, there is vegans climbing Mount Everest.

PETA

I never mentioned them. I was thinking like tutorial videos of how to shear sheep. It is almost never nice for the animal.

Are you suggesting that we should slaughter all of them…?

You’re saying this as if farmers aren’t going to slaughter them? If you would stop breeding animals the problem would be gone in 6 years (or 20 if you stop sending them to slaughter prematurely)

From your source:

While garments made of natural fibers, such as cotton and wool, would appear to be a solution, unfortunately they also shed microfibers that can pick up pollutants in the environment.