So Sunday night I discovered a new "social media" website called prabook.org , and the WAY I discovered it was to find out that someone had created a profile for ME-- without my permission or knowledge --INCLUDING date and location of birth, who my parents are (including my mother's maiden name), and they even had a copy of an old resume and had uploaded all the details from that. I immediately contacted them to tell them to take it down, which they did, but they said that since anyone can add information, it could be restored, they would do nothing about it, and they assumed no responsibility for anything about their website. I know there's a lot of information and public records available online, but the resume they got hold of was from around 1997, so it would have been printed on actual paper and mailed to companies. It was never emailed or uploaded to anything. So the copy they have, if not obtained illegally, was certainly obtained in an unaut...
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And thanks for the laugh *wipes coffee off monitor*.
Don't give the Daily Mail any ideas that this might be caused by foreigners :-)
On a more serious note: the problem is an old one, it is a complicated one, and will not be easy to solve. To start with the farmers lose out on the sheering: it costs more to take the wool off a sheep than they get for the fleece. AFAIK the British Wool board has not been much help, and many farmers end up burying the fleeces because they see no other option. Heresy for some spinners, I know...
But there are small Davids fighting the big Goliath, and I love Cornish Organic and Wool Britannia from the lovely people at Knitwits in Penzance for that reason.
P.S. They do mail order, too :-)
P.P.S. Declaration of personal interest: I lived in Cornwall and wish the county's local businesses all the best
Hmh. While I support the use of wool in other products, I still think the large Aran sweater has it's place. That would be on me, given that my thermostat has been turned way down...