Is this something people really thought happened?
Several animal rights groups have claimed sheep are killed for wool.
I mean, they are eventually killed but not killed for their wool.
that’s just if you don’t have shears its an early game thing
Weird they aren’t familiar with renewable resources.
They rather people use fibers that create microplastics.
Just all around stupid then. Makes sense.
Actually we’d rather you didn’t use either, neither of these things are good for the environment.
I’ve had all sorts of vegans tell me I could replace animal products with petrochemical based products including plastic.
Yeah again I wouldn’t recommend it, it seems a bit unnecessary. There are a huge number of environmentally friendly vegan clothing options.
I get omnivores telling me I can replace my vegan food with literal corpses. Dead animals are definitely less environmentally friendly than what I’m eating.
Do you have any sources for that? I’ve googled and couldn’t find any.
I’m not a fan of PETA either but that source doesn’t say anything about animal rights groups claiming sheep are killed for their wool. Why lie dude?
https://www.peta.org/features/sheep-killed-wool/
Right there on their website Peta says all sheep are killed for their wool.
They literally had fake mutilated sheep in their add campaign, what the fuck do you call that?
Yeah, actually I agree with you. PETA isn’t a good source, they’re like the fox news of veganism.
I’m curious which ones?
PETA put out bloody and offensive ads about it once.
PETA also thinks owning pets is animal cruelty
PETA is a garbage organisation.
I prefer Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment.
MEAT?
Weren’t they also the organisation involved in pushing animal euthanasia widely?
Yes.
I heard PETA also started the plague and fellated Hitler.
Seriously, the campaign against PETA must be one of the most successful examples of propaganda in history. Even people whose views are aligned with the goals and actions of PETA hate PETA. Because they’ve read somewhere (but can’t quite remember where) that PETA are evil hypocrites, deny the holocaust and kill animals for fun.
Disclaimer: I’m vegan, btw.
I hate things like this because I feel like they misrepresent the issue. Yes, I’m sure there’s some morons out there that think you have to kill the sheep, but that’s not what the vast majority of vegans think. Also it’s great if this person is treating their animals well but that’s absolutely not the case for the vast majority of commercial wool farms where practices like un-anaesthetised tail docking, mulesing and castration are common. And given the sheerers have quotas to make the sheep are often handled roughly and injured and when they get older and the wool quality deteriorates they’re still sent off to a slaughter house all the same.
Sure there’s some tiny farms out there that take good care of their animals and practice ethically and I’m all for it, but videos like this give a really skewed look at the problem by misrepresenting the complaints vegans have and also the practices on an industry scale.
Peace.
Here some video of an actual professional shearer at work.
I grew up on farms, I know what good shearing looks like. And even if every single shearer was perfect it still does nothing about the other points I made.
Well you just exacerbated the problem by putting all sheep shearers into one bucket. As you know there are many types of vegans and there are many types of farmers. If we are to go after commercial farms, let’s make that the focus.
Not the video of the woman clearly trying to make a living with a need that is supplied by her goods. How do we know how many are out there hurting sheep? What is the percentages? And even if we did how are we supposed to change them?
I didn’t do that, I just communicated why I thought the video misrepresented the issue.
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please reread
Especially infuriating given it can be corrected
I’m excited Lemmy lets us edit titles. I haven’t had the opportunity to try that yet, thanks for reminding me, should I need to do that sometime.
You should edit one of your posts so the previously correct title is no longer correct.
My conscience couldn’t bear it. Hey but look! Sometime over the course of our conversation today, OP finally edited the title!
Depends on the farmer. Some are really rough with the sheers and end up cutting the skin. Some really throw the sheep about and aren’t really looked after well.
Farmers don’t shear sheep, professional shearing gangs shear sheep and they don’t cut the animals
In the long history of farming, and knowing a few frugal farmers, I’d bet a substantial sum that a farmer has sheared their own sheep and has nicked a few in the process.
