heirop:underthehedge:ruusverd:godesssiri:darkvioletcloud: sabelmouse:This fake yarn is supposedly
heirop:underthehedge: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?? Also loving the “the sheep will be snuggly warm tonight” like… You shear sheep in the spring, when the weather warms up and they no longer need it, and they grow it back for next winter. Also, you literaly NEED to shear sheep multible times a Year or they fucking Overheat and die in their own wool Behold him, Chris the sheepOne day, Chris got a wild hair up his ass and decided he wanted to be a feral sheep and just ran off, and was almost never seen again. For an unknown amount of time (at least a few years) he was wandering until he became almost immobile, which was when someone found him with 78 pounds of wool growing on himHe was recovered and shorn asap by a champion shearer (oh agriculture and your championships for every aspect). He would die 4 years later at a sanctuary. Shearing is literally lifesaving for these animals jfc. “Oh but they wouldn’t be that way if not for us!”Okay and your solution is what? Let them all die off being crushed and suffocated to death by their own coats to kill the non-shedding gene? Idk man that sounds pretty fucking heinous to me. We made them. Rather than unmake them maybe we should just take care of them and give them fucking haircuts and find use for the hair. -- source link
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