BARTLETT — When you pass through the front door of the shop of Limmer and Sons custom bootmakers in Intervale, you’re taking a step into the past that goes all the way back five generations to Bavaria.
The revered Limmer Boots are the all-leather custom-fit hiking boots that have been the preferred footware of knowledgeable hikers and outdoor officials including New Hampshire Fish and Game conservation officers and Appalachian Mountain Club trail crews for generations.
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The legacy of violence and exploitation remains normalized in our not so civilized society that on one hand, views cruelty and violence to animals as a red flag threat for human violence, while all through the history of the industrial age, animals have been victims of atrocities for their flesh, hides, and everything else humans force from their bodies. Leather sure is a big one yet how many of us have witnessed the kill floors of the world or right here where gentle cows and calves are forcibly prodded, bolt to the skull, hung upside down, and at the hide pulling station, stripped of their skin for products we assume we can buy ? We hide from this like many hide from the transport of cows and calves to the slaughterhouse to be chopped into pieces , mostly by immigrants who suffer the wounds of doing this bloody work. Thankfully, many other plant materials are coming to the fore to replace leather which requires torturing , mutilating, and skinning animals, which NO civilized society could perpetuate. Imagine a world where all beings are safe, respected, free from bodily harm and death at our hand. I think that's called peace.
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