mercurialmilk:mercurialmilk:peta at it again….. you just cant cure stupid. and for those curious if
mercurialmilk:mercurialmilk:peta at it again….. you just cant cure stupid. and for those curious if peta is right, here’s a comment from this thread: Sheep VERY rarely die from heat exhaustion. Wool has a very high specific thermal resistance which means sheep can survive in quite high temperatures. Its true you should shear them once per year, in spring, however they could probably survive 3 - 4 years without shearing.Also saying they are now bred for producing an unnatural amount of wool is quite far from the mark. For it to be saleable it needs to be strong and as white as possible, if there is too much wool on the sheep it becomes brittle and weak. In poorer countries the Sheep arent actually bred for the wool, more the milk. Romania for example.The amount of research PETA has done into this is laughable. Also on other points from them, the better the Sheep is treated, the more money the farmer will get. So they are actually very well looked after on the whole.Of course there are cases of cruelty, but these are certainly not the norm, as with anything you get some people who dont have a moral compass, but this will never change, they should be focusing their efforts specifically on these people and not the whole industry.Wool itself if natural and biodegradable, we have to shear the sheep, so why not use it? It certainly has a much lower environmental impact than cotton and man made fibres. Cotton uses so much water its mad 8-10,000l per kg.Sheep were domesticated & selected for more wool production liiiiiterally more than 10,000 years ago. What do they expect to happen, us to cull all the sheep that don’t match the genetics that PETA thinks they should have? Are they proposing sheep eugenics?? Oh what am I saying, of course the do. Just like how they run ‘animal shelters’ with the purpose of killing lost (or stolen!) pets bc they explicitly do not believe in the domestication of pets. -- source link
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