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No it's not. No it doesn't. You're just making that up. If you want to make an extraordinary claim, provide evidence.
by WorkerBee28474 3y ago
No it's not. No it doesn't. You're just making that up.
If you want to make an extraordinary claim, provide evidence.
- nightfly 3y agoThey aren't making it up, but ar propogating a lie they've seen elsewhere
- uhtred 3y agoA lie, really? Check yourself. https://www.woolfacts.com/ https://www.woolfacts.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/16/secret-videos-reveal-workers-beating-sheep-on-english-and-scottish-farms https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/16/secret-v... https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/horrific-footage-emerges-claiming-to-show-scottish-shearers-punching-sheep-in-the-face-558505 https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/horrific-footage-e... https://www.thestatesman.com/supplements/8thday/the-violent-sheep-wool-shearing-process-1502759047.html https://www.thestatesman.com/supplements/8thday/the-violent-...
- nightfly 3y agoMy family raised sheep for like 10 years...
- sillystuff 3y agoI had no "sheep knowledge" before some quick googling... They are not making it up, extreme gratuitous cruelty has been documented in commercial sheep shearing if you care. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeKbMRlJUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeKbMRlJUU That video link was from: https://www.woolfacts.com/wool-and-animal-welfare/shearing/ https://www.woolfacts.com/wool-and-animal-welfare/shearing/ That article goes on to state that the same investigators uncovered cruelty at 117 separate operations, so does not appear to be an isolated incident by, "a few bad apples".
- thebooktocome 3y agoThis has nothing to do with a homespun wool contest. This isn’t a commercial setting. As your link mentions, these sheep have been selectively bred to require shearing.
- Gordonjcp 3y agoActually no, the fact that you can shear sheep comes out of the fact that sheep have evolved to shed their wool. When it gets into warmer weather and it's time to shear them, their wool starts to thin, and you get a "rise" - a layer about 5-8mm deep where the individual hairs are about half of their normal thickness. In the wild, these hairs would break and the sheep would shed all its wool in great chunks, but it also makes it a lot easier to shear. If you've tried cutting the "normal" fleece with hand shears you'll know how hard it is, and it will absolutely destroy mechanical clippers. That's not to say that sheep haven't been selectively bred to have a good rise, as well as other desirable characteristics - it's not dog breeding, no-one is trying to select for a deformed snuffly nose to please a dog show judge - but the rise was there before they were domesticated, or they likely wouldn't have survived.
- uhtred 3y agoThey have been selectively bred to produce much more wool than is natural, for human benefit. Their ancestors did not require shearing by humans to survive. If you believe otherwise you're an idiot.
- Gordonjcp 3y agoNot really, no. If you look at wild sheep, you'll see they do just the very same thing. Scottish Blackface are about as close to wild as you can get, and they're famed for their wool.
- archgoon 3y agoThere are over a hundred thousand sheep farms in the US alone. That's 117 in 6 countries, what percentage of farms had bad practices and how were the ones that were audited chosen? Given that this is PETA, I would not assume good faith here. Finally, the original poster makes a universal claim about the nature of sheep farming, which your above anecdotes do nothing to support.
- uhtred 3y agosillystuff provided the evidence for me, so no I'm not making it up. ha ha bad luck old chum. Yes your wool sweaters are cruel.