A sheep that is not sheared, dies.
Slowly. Wetly. With flies in the fleece and a temperature it cannot regulate.
The modern sheep, descended from twelve thousand years of selective breeding, no longer sheds its fleece naturally. It cannot. If left unshorn, the fleece keeps growing, traps moisture against the skin, attracts flies, develops fly strike, and kills the sheep slowly and unpleasantly over the course of a wet summer.
Shearing is not done to the sheep. Shearing is done for the sheep.
The shearer arrives in May. The sheep is held still for ninety seconds. The fleece comes off in one piece. The sheep stands up, shakes itself, and walks back into the field roughly four kilograms lighter and visibly relieved. The fleece becomes a jumper that will outlive three of your phones.
The alternative, the one being marketed as compassionate, is acrylic. Polyester. A petroleum-derived plastic spun into fibres that shed microplastics into every wash, every wear, every breath of wind, for as long as that garment exists. Which is forever. Acrylic does not biodegrade. It only breaks down into smaller pieces of acrylic.
The sheep needed shearing. The oil rig did not need drilling.
Have a think about which one is actually cruel.
@pnwguerrilla@veryvirology You need more than 3.
I started with 30 five years ago and am down to 15. They are terrible parents, They hide their nests so you can’t find the eggs to hatch out yourself. Mine love to stand in the road and play chicken with cars. They lose often.
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@bratterstein is so incredibly shallow and desperate to be relevant that she makes sure to use the preferred pronouns of an actual butcher of humans. This proves without a doubt that her channel is not about honoring victims, it’s about making money. Fucking gross.