Daniel Crouse
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British wool production reached approximately 70 million kilograms per year in the early 20th century. The British Wool Marketing Board, established in 1950, guaranteed a price floor for clip wool. For decades, sheep farmers received a meaningful return on their fleece. Then polyester arrived. Then nylon. Then acrylic. Then all the petroleum-derived fibres that could be produced at industrial scale for prices that wool could not compete with. By 2023, the average price paid for British wool clip was approximately 30 pence per kilogram. The cost of shearing is approximately £1.50 per sheep. The farmer pays to remove the wool. The wool does not cover the cost of its own removal. The farmer shears because an unshorn sheep suffers: flystrike, overheating, wool blindness, not because the wool has value. The wool that clothed England for six centuries, that built the Cotswolds, that paid for the Woolsack, that financed the medieval Church's building programme: is now a disposal problem. A byproduct so devalued that it costs the farmer money. Meanwhile, the fleece jacket you are wearing is shedding approximately 1,700 plastic microfibres per wash into the water system. The plastic fibre replaced the wool fibre. The plastic fibre is in the fish. The wool fibre would have biodegraded. The wool fibre was made by a sheep in a Cumbrian field and it cost 30 pence. The plastic fibre was made from petroleum and it is in your bloodstream. We chose this. We chose this specifically.


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Mark Carney outlined his economic plan & unfortunately for Canadians, it's the same Liberal playbook they experienced with Justin Trudeau but on steroids. Free child & dental care for immigrants, no promises to stop the largest peacetime influx of legal migrants in world history






