My ex thought the only way to get llama wool was to kill the llama. For some reason, this logic only applied to llamas, she understood sheep wool didn’t require the same sort of blood sacrifice.
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Required processing through a Cessna propeller blade
Same.
that’s actually not true. All wool sheep go to slaughter. When they’re no longer useful, they end up dead and on someone’s plate.
I mean they are certainly shorn more than once before that happens, so I wouldn’t exactly say it’s a blood sacrifice.
never mind that they often get cut quite badly because the shearers are on such a tight deadline.
Once again, they are not skinned alive to make a sweater so not exactly what my ex pictured happened for yarn products.
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Your non-sequitur is bordering on badgering at this point. We got it the first time. You’re smarter and kinder than us.
Natural lifespan? What natural life span? Sleep are unable to survive in the wild for more then a few years before the amount of wool they grow will cause their bodies to cook themselves. They are dependent on humans sheering them to live out their “natural” lifespan. Ultimately they, along with all animals we have breed for service are not natural any more.
yeah, because we bred them that way. there are nautrally occurring sheep that don’t need to be shorn all the time, and they do just fine.
Poor guy never figured out how to make shears in Minecraft 😔😔😔
F in the chat please, boys
One of the cutest things I’ve ever seen was at a county fair. A woman was combing this enormously fluffy angora rabbit, and spinning the fluff directly into yarn. I have never seen another bunny reach such cat-worthy levels of smug satisfaction in my life.
They used to do that at our county fair too! Only it was three old ladies who looked very much like they might have just been visiting our realm from a story book about witches. One was combing the rabbit, the next was carding the fluff and the third was spinning on, I’m pretty sure, Sleeping Beauty’s actual spinning wheel. There were a bunch of rabbits just lazing about at their feet, waiting for their turn. It was my favorite part of the fair.
Animals bred for wool typically end up getting slaughtered for meat as soon as they stop being profitable, so they’re actually not wrong.
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How do you know the wool came from animals that are now too old to produce?
Plus depending on your location, they are barely profitable for wool, so it doesn’t take much for one sheep to cost too much.
What do you think we do with sheep once they no longer provide a sufficient amount of wool?
I think the joke is that those aren’t sheep. They’re goats.
I thought it was that fur includes the skin of the animal. Wool (which is used in yarn production) does not include the skin of the animal.
The joke works on multiple levels which is nice.
Force them into an unending elder care program designed to squeeze every last penny from them, while providing the bare minimum of care possible?
Kind of related? I used to work at an elder care facility that had “therapy goats.” Lil baby goats that needed bottle feeding. We’d bring them to the residents’ rooms for cuddles and they would get to take turns feeding them. They were so delighted buy them, it was damn cute.
Yeah, uh, in mass production they’re treated like garbage, cut up during shearing, abused, crammed into tiny shitty conditions. They’re not inherently killed to produce wool but they do often die in relation to being treated as raw material for production.
And when they stop being profitable (by not producing top-quality wool as they age), they do get slaughtered for meat.
