• @Braysl
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    531 year ago

    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.

    • aeternum
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      31 year ago

      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.

      • @Braysl
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        131 year ago

        I mean they are certainly shorn more than once before that happens, so I wouldn’t exactly say it’s a blood sacrifice.

        • aeternum
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          -11 year ago

          never mind that they often get cut quite badly because the shearers are on such a tight deadline.

          • @Braysl
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            181 year ago

            Once again, they are not skinned alive to make a sweater so not exactly what my ex pictured happened for yarn products.

              • @Sarmyth
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                111 year ago

                Your non-sequitur is bordering on badgering at this point. We got it the first time. You’re smarter and kinder than us.

              • @AlataOrange
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                31 year ago

                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.

                • aeternum
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                  11 year ago

                  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.