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ymfingsteadilyon: beatrice-otter:alexseanchai:ruffboijuliaburnsides: taibhsearachd:ruusverd:godesssiri:darkvioletcloud: sabelmouse: This fake yarn is supposedly better for sheep. Aimed at people who don’t know where wool comes from, it’s 100% plastic. Yes, plastic. So any garment you wash will release microfibres into the sea. It’ll never decompose. You’re supposed to believe that sheep shearing is violent and cruel. There are imbeciles out there that work in an unprofessional manner while shearing, but that’s not the case overall. Sheep don’t suffer from having their fleece removed. Left on, the fleece can become a home for fly eggs and the subsequent maggots which can eat the sheep. Chemical treatments are available to prevent that happening. It’s much better for the sheep, the land and the farmer to avoid chemical use. Don’t be fooled. Wool is a sustainable material, one we should make more and better use of. Any garment you wash will release microfibres into the sea. It’ll never decompose. This is very important. And you need to wash acrylic wool garment more often than natural wool. They get stinky way more easily. In my almost-decade of owning sheep, there have been exactly two(2) bad shearers try to start up in the area. Know what happened? The first farm they went to called every other shepherd in the area and said “This guy cut one of my sheep and didn’t think it was a big deal, don’t hire him.” And neither of them ever did business in the area again. Some farmers are less conscientious than they should be about taking care of their stock, and the occasional tiny nick will happen, but no one is going to hire a shearer who is a) incompetent enough and b) uncaring enough to actually injure the animals to the point of bleeding, let alone the kind of horrors the internet claims.Also, most breeds of sheep will literally die if they go too long without being sheared. PETA (and let’s face it, most of this anti-wool stuff can be traced back to deliberate misinformation from PETA) doesn’t care if sheep die, they have openly stated that they would prefer every domestic species that can no longer survive without humans go extinct rather than live in “"slavery.”“ Humans and sheep have lived together for over ten thousand years, they’ve been domesticated longer than dogs! Their lives consist of doing whatever the heck they want (for the most part they only want to walk, eat, sleep, play, and make lambs) while being fed and cared for, for the low price of having their hair cut once a year. Why would anyone boycott this natural, biodegradable fiber humans have been using for so long to the benefit of both species, in favor of plastics that are killing the planet?? …sheep absolutely have not been domesticated longer than dogs, but that’s beside the point, just an anthropological quibble. I fully agree with everything else in this post. (we potentially domesticated wolves as far back as 33kya! but yes, goats and sheep were probably not too long after that, evolutionarily speaking. And the rest of this post is spot on!) [image: several skeins of Happy Sheep 100% acrylic yarn. the label assures us “No sheep were sheared to make this yarn, so rest assured they’re all warm and snuggly in their own wooly jumpers tonight.”].I hate to think of sheep who grew a nice full coat over the winter having to still wear it in the summer. I really do. poor overheated sheep. In the Hebrew Bible, the same word means both “sheep” and “goats.” There is no distinction made between the two animals. Why? Because they were originally the same animal. Goats are what you get when you breed for hardiness and meat and milk. They’re the base animal, much closer to the original wild animal, and in fact there are still wild goats out there that have never been domesticated.Sheep are what you get when you say “the ONLY thing that matters is wool, we don’t care if they get dumb as fuck and fragile and don’t produce much meat or milk, all we care about is that they produce a fuckton of quality wool.” If you take goats and breed for wool, eventually you will end up with sheep.Sheep do not exist in nature. There have never been wild sheep. The animal was created by humans for its wool. That’s it’s purpose in life. It cannot survive in the wild alone without human care and shearing. Agree with the rest, but Ovia aries (domesticated sheep) and Capra hircus (domesticated goat) are definitely descended from different species, they even have a different number of chromosomes. Mhmm, sheep and goats are totally different species but! they kinda have a point still in that wild sheep look more like goats and don’t have wool so… Right answer for the wrong reason? -- source link
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