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2005-06-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Beheadings okay, but don't shear the sheep

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Posted by muck4doo 2005-06-07 13:25|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The purpose of mulesing is the better welfare of the sheep. In humid/rainy weather, there is a strip of skin on the back end of a woolly sheep which remains wet with urine, dung and water and becomes fly blown. The maggots eat their way into the flesh and a painful and lingering death ensues if on-farm surgery (much more painful than the mulesing) isnt carried out. In practise a badly flyblown sheep is simply shot.
This is what anti- mulesing campaigners want to happen to these animals they pretend to care for.
FYO, mulesing is cutting away of a strip of skin on the back of a lambs leg, where it folds on itself and stays wet. The lamb goes baa baa for the few seconds it takes, runs off, shakes itself and is feeding happily minutes later. The wool never grows on the modest scar and the sheep is protected from flystrike all its life.
This is just a smokescreen issue from people who want to destroy the wool industry.

Posted by Grunter 2005-06-07 18:10|| 2005-06-07 18:10|| Front Page Top

#2 And I wonder if mutton full of maggots is haram.

Posted by Grunter 2005-06-07 18:13|| 2005-06-07 18:13|| Front Page Top

#3 You have to understand the culture....

They dont want shorn sheep for the same reason they wouldn't want to see any part of a woman 'uncovered'.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-06-07 18:53|| 2005-06-07 18:53|| Front Page Top

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