*Sheep have been selectively bred for production to the point that they will die if not sheared.
By buying wool you're funding the shearing of sheep with one hand, and creating the conditions that make sheep require shearing to function with the other.
I'm a bit disappointed in the lack of dialectics being applied I'm seeing here chapos.
In your example just "giving them a haircut once a year" would be more humane, but your example is not reflective of the real world, and is a strawman of what I said. It is neither "just a haircut" nor "just a haircut"
What I said was "buying wool creates the conditions that make sheep require shearing" when you buy wool, you are funding another sheep being bred for that purpose. This is not the same as saying we should go out and exterminate all domesticated sheep.
Humane options would include selectively breeding sheep back to their previous state, and simply not allowing them to breed.
We've dug ourselves a deep hole here. The solution is not to double down and keep digging.
Domesticated sheep do not shed wool by themselves and the wool will accumulate until the animal die from the stress of the heat or the weight. Search up Shrek the sheep on google images.
My grandpa raises sheep, I've been helping out since I was like 4. They need to be sheared bc they do not shed. On top of that wool gets pretty gross. Basically if left unsheared they get a bunch of infections and maggots and overheat.
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Sheep will die without being sheared
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*Sheep have been selectively bred for production to the point that they will die if not sheared.
By buying wool you're funding the shearing of sheep with one hand, and creating the conditions that make sheep require shearing to function with the other.
I'm a bit disappointed in the lack of dialectics being applied I'm seeing here chapos.
So is the solution be to exterminate all domesticated sheep or just have people give em a haircut once a year which seems more humane?
In your example just "giving them a haircut once a year" would be more humane, but your example is not reflective of the real world, and is a strawman of what I said. It is neither "just a haircut" nor "just a haircut"
What I said was "buying wool creates the conditions that make sheep require shearing" when you buy wool, you are funding another sheep being bred for that purpose. This is not the same as saying we should go out and exterminate all domesticated sheep.
Humane options would include selectively breeding sheep back to their previous state, and simply not allowing them to breed.
We've dug ourselves a deep hole here. The solution is not to double down and keep digging.
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Domesticated sheep do not shed wool by themselves and the wool will accumulate until the animal die from the stress of the heat or the weight. Search up Shrek the sheep on google images.
Yeah so maybe we should stop breeding these animals who live a life of pain and suffering instead of buying socks to continue it.
They don't live a life of pain if you shear the wool off.
The world is more complex than that.
My grandpa raises sheep, I've been helping out since I was like 4. They need to be sheared bc they do not shed. On top of that wool gets pretty gross. Basically if left unsheared they get a bunch of infections and maggots and overheat.
Can't eat plants, it requires the labor of bees to pollinate.
Bees do that without having to be bred, mutilated or imprisoned. You're not even depriving them of the fruit of their labor when you let them polinate