I took this off another forum where the conversation turned toward ethics, companies and where they get their components.
Originally Posted by TomSnout333 View Post Well there's actually 8 of the companies that deal with communist product, including my own. There is also a company there that has their tents and sleeping bags put together in Vietnam...lol! Oh well... Trust me the hooks used are Mustad knock offs from North Korea. Why would I lie about that. Not going to give you the companies name because mine is one of them. They are some of the bigger ones in the Canadian tackle industry industry...
Companies buying from China when so much of the production has moved there is one thing... but North Korean knockoffs..all time scuzy level!! I wish I knew the companies I know I wouldn't buy from them again.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/10/08/dont-go-to-the-land-of-death-north-korean-slave-labourer-urges-tourists/
“But the people do not look alive. Everyone had malnutrition, you have constant diarrhoea. You have no strength. I saw people die every day. You eat anything – a plant shoot rises, you snatch it and eat it. Rats were a delicacy. If you saw a snake you grabbed it and bit off the head. But you ate the snakes raw – there was no time or means to cook.”
Both her parents and eight-year-old son died in the camp, in the 1970s. A decade ago, she bought false documents and crossed into China, from where she made her way to South Korea – where she now lives. Yesterday she was in London for North Korean Defectors’ Week, as Amnesty International said that the prison camps had expanded, and now held an estimated 200,000 people.
“It breaks my heart that now I live life in this bliss, while my family died in that land of death,” she said. “The world must take seriously what is happening there.”
On the North Korea note http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/11/12/north-korean-firing-squads-reportedly-execute-80-for-watching-foreign-films/ 80 put to death were found guilty by the state of minor misdemeanors, including watching videos of South Korean television programs or possessing a Bible.
There are two facebook pages that have posted the question of where they get their hooks etc. to the companies and I see there are several ethical options that have responded so far.
https://www.facebook.com/CanadianMadeOutdoorsGear?ref=hl
https://www.facebook.com/NorthAmericanMadeFishingGear?ref=hl