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Sheep are bred for meat and for their wool and skin. A lot of people ask themselves why wool is cruel.

HERE IS WHY:

Without human interference, sheep grow just enough wool to protect themselves from temperature extremes. The fleece provides effective insulation against both cold and heat. Wool was once obtained by plucking it from sheep during their molting seasons. Breeding for continuous fleece growth began after the invention of shears. As long as there are domestic sheep, shearing must be practiced for the health and hygiene of each individual animal. Domestic sheep do not naturally shed their winter coats. In the industry sheep are unable to shed. If a sheep goes too long without being shorn, a number of problems occur. This can cause sheep to become overheated and die. This unnatural overload of wool causes animals to die of heat exhaustion during hot months, and the wrinkles also collect urine and moisture. Attracted to the moisture, flies lay eggs in the folds of skin, and the hatched maggots can eat the sheep alive !!

Because there is so much death and disease in the wool industry, the rational solution is to reduce the number of sheep who are used for their wool in order to maintain them properly. Instead, sheep are bred to bear more lambs and grow more wool in order to offset the deaths. 💔 Ranchers perform a barbaric operation called “mulesing,” in which workers carve huge strips of skin and flesh off the backs of lambs’ legs and the areas around their tails. This is done to produce smooth, scarred skin that won’t harbor fly eggs, yet the bloody wounds often get flystrike before they heal. Sheep are sheared each spring, after lambing, just before some breeds would naturally shed their winter coats. Timing is considered critical: Shearing too late means wool loss. In the rush, many sheep die from exposure after premature shearing. Shearers are usually paid by volume, not by the hour, which encourages fast work without regard for the sheep’s welfare: they get treated brutally and get cut... This is abuse and severe animal cruelty !! Other kinds of wool: It may be called wool, mohair, pashmina, shahtoosh, or cashmere. But no matter what it’s called, any kind of wool means suffering for animals.

Info and truth on the wool industry (Graphic content): 🐑 https://www.peta.org/…/animals-used-c…/inside-wool-industry/ 🐏 https://headlines.peta.org/wool-videos-prove-sheep-suffer/ 🐏 https://www.google.be/…/cruel-treatment-of-sheep-exposed-in…

source: https://www.facebook.com/AFAallforanimals/

Just a reminder that a) love isn't compatible with exploitation, torture and slaughter; and b) you don't have to love animals to recognize the fact that all sentient beings deserve to have their most fundamental rights respected. Ultimately, animals don't really need your love; they just need you to leave them the fuck alone.

There is nothing "humane" about treating nonhuman animals as if they were mere commodities. There is nothing "humane" about violating the fundamental rights of vulnerable sentient beings, especially when that violation is being carried out in the name of something as trivial as your pleasure and convenience.