• Animal rights activists demand Wool village change its name
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/22/wool-parish-council-forced-discuss-changing-name-vegan-wool/
I know a lot of animal rights activist groups are batshit and the papers love to do a good story on them, but the title is pretty misleading considering it doesn't look like they were actually 'DEMANDING' the village change its name as much as just doing it as a publicity stunt. Even if it's a dumb idea (The letter itself not the name change) that makes no sense it's equally dumb that people are getting worked up over it.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tuL4IaCf4qM/maxresdefault.jpg time for a name change!
I knew this was gonna be PETA as soon as I saw the title, they are just that bad.
Mrs Brooks pointed out that PETA had failed to do its homework, noting that the village name was derived from the ancient word “welle” and had nothing to do with the wool industry. Being a tad ethnocentric, there, PETA.
I thought sheep actually need to be sheared to live comfortably
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1379/bcf97a87-3a2f-44a4-8291-7a47c78556da/image.png This is what happens when a sheep doesn't get sheared for 6 years, I can't imagine it being ideal.
Stop calling PETA “animal rights activists”.
Let's be honest, it's because of farming that they became like this. How would sheep have survived before they were farmed for their wool? It's the same as there being no way a little chihuahua can survive in the wild, it's because we made them like that. But who the fuck cares if a village is named Wool, the people complaining just discredit Vegans as being whiney morons. PETA does stupid shit, more at 11.
Did this happen before domestication too, how did sheep live? Was their life expectancy just not very long?
Fuck's sake, towns actual name meaning aside, it's fucking Wool, a material name, it's not like they named themselves "Town of Sheepskin Slicing Shitfaire" or something.
Wool is probably the most animal-friendly produce, though. We get fabric and the sheep get to not sweat themselves to death in the summer.
That's true, but I'd guess the argument against that is that humans try to maximize the amount of wool we can get from sheep, leading to uncomfortable living conditions and etc.
i guess they have been selectively bred to grow as much wool as possible
If you haven't given voluntary human extinction much thought before, the idea of a world with no people in it may seem strange. But, if you give it a chance, I think you might agree that the extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species ... Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental. This is a legitimate quote from PETA's CEO. She supports the elimination of the human race entirely as a solution to problems that we can work on without resorting to, you know, genocide.
'syntheticfibrefabrichole' just doesn't have the same ring to it.
I've taken part in sheep shearing before and it's definitely not that harmless, they do get wrestled to the ground and get cut up a bit, but yeah it's not too terrible to them. Dude she cray, no wonder PETA always does this strange shit
Why stop there. Earthenasia would end everyone's suffering
hmm interesting, is that strain of sheep so heavily domesticated that it is screwed without human intervention? i can't imagine that being a good trait in the wild
http://thesource.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Snoop-Dogg-Eyes-Closed-e1458497815834-768x620.png
That's one of the things nobody really talks about because I don't think anyone has any good ideas, and maybe there aren't even any good ideas. But the sad fact is most farm animals cannot survive on their own, and releasing farm animals would result in them all suffering a slow and painful death from a variety of ailments. Or a swift death to predators, in which case they get eaten anyway, but with a lot more pain and a lot less efficiency.
'Releasing' farm animals is just as dumb and I don't actually think anyone advocates for that, obviously they can't survive in the wild. I think the closest thing to that which people advocate for is having animal refuges where they are looked after until they die naturally, but even that's quite over the top and definitely not economically viable. As someone who is against mass livestock agriculture for environmental animal welfare reasons, I think the most reasonable thing is to reduce demand and therefore supply overtime. There's pockets of extremists everywhere, luckily these ones are just annoying and not harmful. I think it's best to ignore them.
What a hypocrite. Advocates for the genocide of the human race so some leaves will be happy, can't even commit suicide to prove her own integrity. I am only half joking, that's genuinely hypocritical. But i'm sure she's one of the good and pure, and other people should die, not her.
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