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sheepskin..., animal cruelty?!
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post Dec 30 2004, 03:06 PM
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how come so many people consider shaving sheeps for their wool animal cruelty? THEY DON`T KILL THE ANIMALS! anyway, they shave the skin in the summer. The sheep prolly like it better because they dont have to have all that fur on their back in the heat. Explain to me how this is animal cruelty, because I really want to know.
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 03:13 PM
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i agree/ blink.gif its not torturing them at all. its just taking their fur off, which doesn't hurt. their skin isn't being cut off. so, i don't get it.
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 03:13 PM
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there's a difference, sheepskin is when they kill the sheep, sheep wool (which is what you're talking about) is what they shave off...i'm against real fur coats, boots, blankets, and etc _dry.gif


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eww i just read the post under mine, i guess either way is't animal cruelty...that's disgusting sick.gif
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 03:15 PM
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SOMEONE CALL PETA!

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http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=72
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Wool.
From sheep. Used in clothing. Ram lambs and old "wool" sheep are slaughtered for their meat. Sheep are transported without food or water, in extreme heat and cold. Legs are broken, eyes injured, etc. Sheep are bred to be unnaturally woolly, also unnaturally wrinkly, which causes them to get insect infestations around the tail areas. The farmer's solution to this is the painful cutting away of the flesh around the tail (called "mulesing"). "Inferior" sheep are killed. When shearing the sheep, they are pinned down violently and sheared roughly. Their skin is cut up. Every year, hundreds of thousands of shorn sheep die from exposure to cold. Natural predators of sheep (wolves, coyotes, eagles, etc.) are poisoned, trapped, and shot. In the U.S., overgrazing of cattle and sheep is turning more than 150 million acres of land to desert. "Natural" wool production uses enormous amounts of resources and energy (to breed, raise, feed, shear, transport, slaughter, etc., the sheep). Derivatives: Lanolin, Wool Wax, Wool Fat. Alternatives: cotton, cotton flannel, synthetic fibers, ramie, etc.

lol (yes, i'm actually laughing)/
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 03:16 PM
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^ what she said...sheep skin is animal cruelty...they're cutting the sheep's ksin out for the love of god! but i think the sheep appreciate it that the people shave them. who wants to carry around all that wool in the summer? i don't wear any kind of animal though...
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 03:54 PM
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shaving = ok..doesn't hard
skinning.. = *roar* that s just not right!
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 04:00 PM
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QUOTE(xsweetxcandyx @ Dec 30 2004, 3:54 PM)
shaving = ok..doesn't hard
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actually most sheep farmers do hurt the sheep when they shear them, they cut the skin, not caring. Just wanting the wool for a profit. I read an article somewhere, I'll try to find it
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 04:00 PM
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skinning is bad.
live skinning is WORSE.
shaving is.....okay. i guess.
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 04:02 PM
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It's sad to know.. that my sister is wearing slaughtered sheep on her feet... her UGGS. >_<"
 
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QUOTE(Just_Dream @ Dec 30 2004, 4:02 PM)
It's sad to know.. that my sister is wearing slaughtered sheep on her feet... her UGGS. >_<"
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Ugh @ Uggs. They're overpriced anyway.
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 04:25 PM
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QUOTE(MissMata @ Dec 30 2004, 4:15 PM)
Ugh @ Uggs.  They're overpriced anyway.
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uggs are ugly sick.gif
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 04:32 PM
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QUOTE(Gypsy Eyes @ Dec 30 2004, 4:00 PM)
actually most sheep farmers do hurt the sheep when they shear them, they cut the skin, not caring. Just wanting the wool for a profit. I read an article somewhere, I'll try to find it
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hmmm...easy for you to say what farmers do to their sheep, even though you're not one.
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 06:29 PM
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Sheep wool shouldn't be considered animal cruelty because they shave their coats off but mindless farmers hurt their sheep in the process, so peta declared it animal cruelty.
Shep skin is animal cruelty because you kill the sheep for their skin, simple as that.
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 06:34 PM
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um...........i like expensive things. dont we all?
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 06:36 PM
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Poor sheep! Baaaa!

Lamb meat is really really good. Oh..I shouldnt have said that huh?

I kid I kid laugh.gif
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 06:38 PM
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Yeah.. that's not really animal cruelty, it's more like helping them cool off in the summer.
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 06:41 PM
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it depends on the sheep
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 06:42 PM
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Don't some poeple eat sheep body parts?
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 06:42 PM
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QUOTE(Honorguard @ Dec 30 2004, 6:29 PM)
Sheep wool shouldn't be considered animal cruelty because they shave their coats off but mindless farmers hurt their sheep in the process, so peta declared it animal cruelty.
Shep skin is animal cruelty because you kill the sheep for their skin, simple as that.
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peta declares everything animal cruelty.
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 06:43 PM
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QUOTE(caytexo @ Dec 30 2004, 4:32 PM)
hmmm...easy for you to say what farmers do to their sheep, even though you're not one.
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see thats kind of funny, my uncle was one until he died. I had to watch him do that. So keep your mouth shut, cause you are starting to aggrivate me wink.gif
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 06:52 PM
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QUOTE(caytexo @ Dec 30 2004, 4:32 PM)
hmmm...easy for you to say what farmers do to their sheep, even though you're not one.
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Didn't you ask for this to be explained to you?

Anyway, sheep skinning is animal cruelty, the farmers kill the sheep. Sheep shearing is also animal cruelty because many farmers injure or hurt the sheep because they are very rough with the animals and only want a profit.
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 07:56 PM
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QUOTE(caytexo @ Dec 30 2004, 4:32 PM)
hmmm...easy for you to say what farmers do to their sheep, even though you're not one.
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i guess it depends on the farmer
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 07:56 PM
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Alternatives: cotton, cotton flannel, synthetic fibers, ramie, etc.


hmmm... someone should tell PETA...

cotton is grown in fields, which evict local wildlife.

if you buy cotton you're supporting the habitat destruction of millions of squirells!

boycott all plant fiber clothes!! and all animal derivered clothes.

sythetic fibers are tested on animals to make sure they don't do anything strange.

boycott those too!!!
 
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post Dec 30 2004, 09:04 PM
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sheep are made to be used by humans... if they werent used then thed die because of all their wool...
 
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post Jan 1 2005, 06:37 PM
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QUOTE(sadolakced acid @ Dec 30 2004, 6:56 PM)
hmmm...  someone should tell PETA...

cotton is grown in fields, which evict local wildlife.

if you buy cotton you're supporting the habitat destruction of millions of squirells! 

boycott all plant fiber clothes!!  and all animal derivered clothes. 

sythetic fibers are tested on animals to make sure they don't do anything strange. 

boycott those too!!!
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Have you been reading Maddox?

But sheep skin isn't much worse that leather and all that. I use lots of leather products so you can probably see where I'm coming from, Van, all leather seats, car, leather seats, sofa, love seat, chair, all leather, computer chairs x3 all leather. The animals die anyways. They might as well help us in some manner. Plus the cows or sheep don't go to waste, their meat is then sold to hungry people everywhere.
 
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