Yeah sure, they need to be bound, tortured, mutilated without anesthesia and butchered when they are "useless" for the heat, please...

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It's funny reading comments from people who have clearly never been near a farm in their lives.

If you know so much about farms you should know that the sheep have been genetically manipulated for centuries to produce more wool...

And this is the result, not their natural state.

Creation of human intervention... Wow, how deep. That's what they told you at the church?

What happens after a sheep is shorn? It wanders off confused and goes back to munching grass

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Wether you like it or not you shear it! Or the poor bugger dies of heat exhaustion, dehydration or maggots eating under it's skin.

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That's 60lbs, 10 times the amount used to make the blanket. Imagine carrying all that around on a hot summer day

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You might not like the practice but flystrike isn't any prettier. http://www.teara.gov.../p17443nsil.jpg

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Please tell me Thomas, what is your plan of action other than banging on about practices you don't understand? How would you fix it?

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There's always going to be sheep is what I'm saying, you either let it die horribly in the name of animal welfare or you give it a buzz cut.

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You can't just say whoops we f*cked up oh well we'll just wait for them all to die, no biggie

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@Thomas - So you have a problem. You have a species that is your responsibility because it is historically a creation of human intervention

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Church of Darwin- Nature isn't all cute animals; if you'd worked near it, you'd know that.

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In some respects I don't know who's side you are on but it's certainly not the animals.

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ha ha 4 people didn't like being confronted with the reality of being an unshorn sheep. Mulesing is ilegal in the UK before anyone starts.

Just because you're an ignorant does not mean that the sheeps do not suffer mulesing. Take your stupid b******t elsewhere...

nicola, almost 90% of the soy production is used for feed the animals on the farms. You're just talking nonsense, somebody had to tell you

Your hairdresser is doing this to you?

Yo must be a mad a*****e if you still going there for a haircut.

https://www.google.es/search?q=mulesing&biw=877&bih=489&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=E2m_VMCbF8mvUanAgcgH&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

Also sheep is the plural of sheep, not sheeps :P

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Mulesing is only practiced where there are wrinkled breeds like merino with blowfly problems, eg Austrailia, cos the alternative is worse.

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If you are so passionate about it, I suggest you get out there and dip the sheep yourselves, but boycotting wool will lead to more neglect!

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Shaving them is not harming them. And really this is what annoys me, you are all happy to b*tch about it but do nothing to help. Grow up!

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Those animals will still be there if you boycott wool or not, but at least they are not neglected and left to rot under farming.

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That lassie used brown sheep wool so this post has sweet FA to do with cruelty

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Silly spoiled little hipsters, who have never cleaned sh*t and blood of themselves. You have no idea how things work.

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To me this is an exercise in total lack of common sense.

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Sorry but I'm not talking nonsense. You work around animals, not house pets, you know they get diseases and the disease spreads.

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what do you think is in your tofu?

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The rest of the world thinks you're idiots because no one else mules their sheep. Yes I think it's abhorrent, but maggots eating your flesh?

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Apparently a lot of you are cool with animals dying from horrible disease. You probably believe eating soy doesn't harm the environment too.