Reply #29: Vegans have three problems with wool [View All]

[jmowreader]

It's using an animal to fulfill a human need--hence exploitative.

Factory sheep farming is cruel. Sheep are animals designed to live on hills, but it's easier to raise them on flat land. This causes all sorts of problems. In England, people eat a lot of lamb so there's a financial motivation to overbreed, to force them into heat with hormones, and of course to butcher lambs at a very early age. (There's also the Easter Lamb problem--the traditional Easter meal in GB seems to be lamb. If the ewes were allowed to reproduce as nature intended them to, the lambs would be born after Easter. Not good for business.)

And when you shear a sheep, it generally gets cut to hell.