I’ve got a few pairs of wool socks from pre-veganism, but they’re all wearing down and approaching their end of life. I need warm, durable socks that can approach wool’s comfort and utility. What do you suggest?

edit: here’s an article about why vegans should avoid wool

      • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        7 months ago

        With bamboo rayon the conditions of its manufacture are often very horrible. There’s a factory in Austria which allows audits and has a proper closed system, most comes out of some region in China that starts with a J? (i forget, I looked into this years ago) that are much less cooperative with allowing inspections and at the time I looked didn’t seem to have the best track record.

        Bamboo makes it sound nice, but it’s essentially plastic synthesised from bamboo. Potentially not so bad but it really depends on how they harvest/how workers are treated/what is done with waste chemicals.

        nb: this isn’t an endorsement of wool. It’s not like that’s produced by singing down the clouds into socks :p

          • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            7 months ago

            Ah cool. That’s new to when I last looked.

            In theory I think that cert is not entirely bullshit as there should be inspections.

            A couple of things give me pause though:

            • it’s a private industry governing body so idk how well policed it is wrt corruption etc

            • there are grades of passing which seem quite flexible

            • it’s intended for suppliers to show, not customer facing.

            They might also be but personally I’d feel better if they were iso certified for various things like the environmental responsibility one and safe working practices one etc. Iso certification is expensive though