There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
An example of research you can do: Darn Tough: https://darntough.com/pages/faqs
"Is the wool you use to make your socks sourced from farms that treat their sheep ethically and humanely?
Our partners do not harm their sheep in the shearing process in any way and do not practice mulesing. It’s a natural, sustainable process."
It takes a certain type of detached person to do that to a living animal. There's more to the shearing and in some cases, the animals are gashed and not humanely treated when the wound is being sewn together.
And, if you have a strong stomach, check out the pictures to see why some of us find it to be so horrible.
There's plenty of other issues when you obtain materials from animals... but I won't go down that rabbit hole in this post.