Deer Control Suit & Jil Sander Suit

A lot of you guys ask about wool-free suits. Jil Sander surprised us with a few cruelty-free options recently, featured on GILT Groupe. The wool-free suit below features textured woven cotton on a single breasted two button jacket with notch lapel, a center vent at back and non-functional button cuffs. Fully lined in cupro with three pockets.

Textured Woven Cotton SuitTextured Woven Cotton Suit

Jil Sander‘s Nylon Marble Blazer and Cupro/Nylon Iridescent Blazer are also cruelty free and quite stunning.

Nylon Marble BlazerCrinkled Iridescent Blazer

GILT is an invite only site (click here to join). They do often feature organic brands like Loomstate and Edun, but also occasionally feature designers who continue to use fur, so take a moment to kindly ask them to stop featuring these items from designers like Michael Kors and tell them we want more cruelty-free stuff.

Our pals at Friends of Animals and CARE have a suit of their own. They are suing to stop National Park Service deer control plans. Deer “control” is always a tumultuous topic, and this case really highlights the opposing forces. I always find it amusing that it is the wildlife that is the problem, as opposed to our ever-expanding, ever-”developing” of wild areas:
Photo of white-tailed deer doe in the snow

“The deer are not responsible for the park’s manicured lawns, for deliberate removals of natural vegetation over the years and the planting of non-native foliage, for a lack of respect for the animals comprising the park’s natural food web, for paved areas and buildings, for more than a million visitors per year, vehicle exhaust, or for the constant presence of (often speeding) cars. These factors must be addressed directly to address the pressure on the deer, Friends of Animals and CARE have urged.”  – FOA

What do you think about deer “control” and other ideas we have about “pests”?


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  • Bivouac

    If they want the deer population “controlled” they’re going to have to increase the area of the parks and re-introduce the deers’ natural predators;wolves, cougars etc. I think they’ll help to restore the balance lost by their removal.

  • http://www.foaphilly.org Leila

    Thanks for bringing this up, Joshua. Jason, well said. Which species is controlling its population and which species is taking increasingly more space by force as its population grows out of control?

  • http://www.eatingconsciously.com Ed Coffin

    Thanks for mentioning the important deer case, Joshua!

  • http://www.jasonrayonline.com Jason

    Who are the “pests?” WE (humans) are the pests. We should do something about our own species’s exponential population growth and the parasitic relationship we have with our planet and its inhabitants. Who should be controlled? WE should be controlled.

    This is why I say time and time again that people should not only cut out the use of animal products, buy the local, organic produce, and use recycled products (and, in turn, recycle), but also reflect deeply on their biological “need” to have children. I am in no way trying to castigate people who have biological children. I simply believe that collectively we should acknowledge that our species’s population growth (not the deer’s) is a huge factor in all of the problems we face, and, as such, we should each individually (or together with our partners) be very deliberate in our decision to have children.