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.
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?
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.
https://youtube.com/shorts/JXEKXthKP0I?si=ilRjcdfUj1TaOSJv
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