The pertinent section, copied and pasted wholesale: "Collecting the Bison Hair
The bison hair is shaved from the torso of the bison the day it is slaughtered for meat. The hair is shaved before the hides are salted down. The bison hair may be shaved using, e.g., sheep shears. Generally, the buffalo hair is only shaved during the winter months. The raw bison fleece may be stored in 300 pound burlap bags in unheated barns that stay at about 15 degrees Fahrenheit until it is transported to the scouring plant where it is cleaned." While this doesn't specifically say the bison are slaughtered and THEN shorn, the fact that the hides are salted after the hair is collected strongly argues for dead fiber collection... To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
