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Patagonia drops wool supplier following video controversy

18/08/2015

Outdoor brand Patagonia has announced that it will stop sourcing wool from Ovis 21. A video published by a campaign group in early August showed poor practice at one of the properties in the 160-farm network in southern Argentina and Chile. Ovis 21 immediately withdrew certification from the livestock farm concerned and said it would have acted...

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