Selfridges massachusetts. Love them others loath them either way her Business Model could revolutionize the first industry. Pamela always keeps a close eye on the road when shes driving looking for roadkill. In springtime in the u. S. State of massachusetts many wild animals come out of winter hibernation and get hit by cars during this period pamela carefully scans the road for dead animals. From here out. So this is all forest and fields and so on so the animals that
live in this area come down into Town Possums Skunks Reptilians particularly coyotes for cats to sit in for the food sources but. This is the spot where they meet the Chain Link Fence the water the houses and the road. Its estimated that in the u. S. One million animals are killed by cars the. Animal Rights Groups are outraged by this. Pamela road kill is good for business. Provided the fur can be recovered. Oh no i cant use this. Oh my god. Now to what i mean about bunnies getting totally squashed. Bunnies tend to not fare well he really got squashed i cant really use that hes older too. But hes also presents a risk for scavengers coming in the road and getting hit when they look to eat him so im just moving him off the side of the road so that if any scavengers come they dont get hit also. So. Pamela produces some two hundred first per year though she doesnt fund all of them herself. Sometimes she buys them from george going to. Get thea. George is a butcher by training and sells furs on the song today pamela is collecting on you. You know remember every year or. So this is your flesh board george soros hes cowhides from the start of you know from your very beautiful. Oh yeah
thats right look this is from free. Work these recoups were shot by a hunter but pamela prefers road kill oh thats what you just. Call your great and your sweet so which ones are mine and you want to. Hear one of the grocers these are all broken or their story. Our think this one. Yeah this one this is a good one. Its a pretty color that gray in there thats really pretty so im just looking at the different colors here and the patterns. Because if i can match them then i can make those Big Neck Muffs and i would. Take it and essentially i put them but to but they come around. Nose to nose Something Like that. Pamela lives in south bridge of former industrial tall near boston today the old factory buildings are generally. And she set up her studio you know good for each factory. Her labor is called peace for. There are two things i like about this. One. One is doing something that matters providing a real option something that Animal Activists Who care and love animals can get on board with and something about for industry can get onboard with im not demanding
the end to their industry im simply suggesting another Sourcing Methodology these are baby gear obviously this one is a bit bigger you can see right here where he got great on the road and see where he got a little injury right there let me show you this girl i picked this girl up in New Hampshire and you can see you see right here she had actually been hit when i picked her up off the road and her whole back hind quarter was really severely damaged so i had to cut around it so when i dont get to it in time and its a little bit rotten. The bacteria has had a chance to work and the hair slips out and you get these big giant bald spots so thats why timeliness matters we only do it in the winter thats when i collect the animals its essentially november to march. Turns. Run over martin into a cute scarf and a possum into
a pair of gloves her accessories sell for between eighty five and Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars she wants to cater to customers who would normally never dream of buying up for a product. This was something that would make a difference in the world that would provide a third option you could have biodegradable sustainable and jarius heirloom material and you wouldnt have animals dying for fashion or in cages or anything like that but it can be done with old gloves thats part of her concept at the Open Air MuseumOld Sturbridge Village pamela demonstrates how to kill she will never forget the first time she did this. I had about six shots of whiskey and the raccoon was Putrified Liquid Inside and i was Semi Vomiting into my mask i had essentially a hazmat suit on at the time ive gotten
a lot more comfortable with it now because i know what im doing now she wants to get others comfortable with the idea of skinning roadkill. The little thing about him. He sees. The like now. So im just working on getting off some of the foreign thats still good. Just muscles i like that i live just around the corner here so were putting in the last demonstration is great advertising for her unconventional fur business shes convinced there is demand for her. So but first season is basically over theyre all shedding now you know theyre losing their fur after the winter and. That its a chance for them really to see animals killed on the roads to not be disgusted to be curious to see that theyre still of value and that theres something to be recovered from that animal and so its it becomes not just about fur in and of
itself but the the mindset that allows you to see value in something that others consider waste. Most parents were farmers if you grew up surrounded by nature. And human sitting around the puddle smacked. Recently she worked as a business consultant. After divorcing from her husband she bought her parents lend a little. Shes a single mom and used to take matters into her own hands just like your parents taught her. Growing up on a farm has influenced her way you see in treating animals for her their family only rarely does she feel animals to eat we had a goat and he started attacking my daughter and bruising her legs and i tried to work with him we tried to keep him in fencing hed plow through the fencing so
finally we ate him you know so thats thats the way it is. If youre not nice what is it be nicer be dinner. Be nicer dinner thats the rule i dont want them i think. You dont have to and thats why we work with other farmers locally. Bring women into the side so i can get at the gate. Later my horses are herded into the paddock. And. Pamelas always helps out around the farm her mom wants her to learn that Keeping Animals is a privilege but also comes with responsibilities right out. Of mud season you cant tell. Why i grew up on a farm and the rule was you cant eat it unless you take part in raising it and
then killing it and processing and so as a rule from when i was a little girl and i was very fortunate you know to have access to so farm and to see where my food came from. Final preparations are being made for a photo shoot him pamela studio shes hired a model and the photographer is so she can showcase her for products on her website multiple layers. So. Yeah a lot of these actually get him down on cape cod because there are living now in the. What you call it in the canal the authors are living in the canal and theyre coming up and theyre getting hit on roofs sex yeah. Turn a mean. Through. But dont look at her actually i want you looking eyes away i dont want you looking at the photographer. Close your eyes. There thats good thats good
my goal ultimately is to change the furnace tree for the better so that they can stay profitable and also that their clientele doesnt have to feel guilty about far and where it comes from because whether or not its my opinion or the furriers opinions a lot of urban living people dont want to be associated with caging and so im trying to be help the fur industry be responsive to that that critique. Pamela doesnt mind that some people go ahead and leo post all of her products because shes convinced shes running an ethical business. Thats helped out and then kris kross in front of there. And who knows maybe parallels the Road Kill Business really will help revolutionize the fur industry. Over. How can we free the Pacific Ocean from plastic waste. And young dutchman is pointing the way he said calls for a world full of plastic trash floating off the coast of california because ocean freeing up system is like a Garbage Truck for the high seas the maneuver is not without its risks. Will his
mission succeed. Tomorrow to me and thirty nine d. W. Ford. To know that Seventy Seven percent. Are younger than sixty five. Thats me and me and. And you know what its time old boy says i got part. Of the Seventy Seven percent he told me you should stop. This is where it comes from. The Seventy Seven percent this weekend on d w. Hows your view of the world. Where i come from the dollar that glitters just go its just like those chinese food thats measure of where i am its always reminds
me of home after decades of living in germany chinese food is one of the things i miss the most but that taking a step back i see things a little of difference with knowledge of many of the words first as american nations that exist as a part of the old havent been implemented in china thats new for a lot of Chinese People wondering if theyre going to say that if people have the right to learn the culture that is this is their job a job that of them how i see it and thats why i love my job because i try to do it exactly it is hour a day by day with the uninsured and i work added up your. Claim