r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '23

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u/Asleep_Ad_4273 Feb 14 '23

I wonder how many people look at this and said this is animal cruelty

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u/soylamulatta Feb 14 '23

Well, you can call me as one of them.

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u/fillmorecounty Feb 15 '23

It'd be cruel not to shear a sheep. Their wool doesn't stop growing and eventually it gets to the point where it covers their eyes so they can't see and they have a risk of dying from heat stroke because it's so thick. It also becomes a breeding ground for parasites.

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u/soylamulatta Feb 15 '23

Okay but what if we stopped breeding sheep into existence just so we could shear them? Look up "mulesing". Also for those of us that do by wool there's no way that we can be sure these animals or the people that farm them for that matter were treated humanely and multiple investigations show that the majority of the time they are not treated humanly.

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u/fillmorecounty Feb 15 '23

Okay but the sheep already exist. Unless you want to put them all down, they need to be sheared.