Hi There: Wait, what the actual fuck.

thebourgeoisiehobo:

slutmuffins:

Casually surfing the #knitting tag, as you do, and I came across a post that said ‘finally finished my vegan scarf! 100% acrylic!’

Whoa

Hold up there

Vegan scarf

Because it’s acrylic

Now I understand that the concept of being vegan means not using animal products

But did you know that if a…

Are sheep really these weird creatures who grow so much wool in the winter that they need help by humans?

Natural sheep, like the wild Dall Sheep pictured below, don’t need any help. They grown just enough wool to protect themselves from the cold in the winter and to keep cool in the summer. When it is time, they will shed their winter coat all by themselves.

Since domesticated sheep can not shed their fleece themselves, their wool will grow longer and longer while flies lay eggs in the moist folds of their skin. The hatched maggots can eat the sheep alive.

To prevent this from happening, ranchers will perform an operation called mulesing. Without anesthesia large strips of flesh are cut of the backs of lambs and around their tails.

Other procedures performed without anesthesia include punching a hole in the ears of lambs several weeks after birth, docking their tails and castrating the males. The castrations are done when the male lambs are between 2 and 8 weeks old, with the use of a rubber ring to cut off their blood supply.

Because shearing too late would mean a loss of wool, most sheep are sheared while it is still too cold. An estimated one million sheep die every year of exposure after premature shearing.

Another problem with sheep shearing is that the shearers are not paid by the hour, but by volume. They handle the animals very roughly and a lot of sheep get injured.

Want to learn more? 

i’d place a high wager on “slutmuffin” coming back all defensive and pissed even though you were nice and informative.

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