Ultra-fine Wool (Battery Sheep) Cruelty Exposed

Over 10,000 sheep across Australia are confined to single pens inside wool factory farms. This investigation footage taken in 2011 at the "Wool Factory" in Victoria shows the extent of their misery.

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[essene8]

How sad, inhumane and terribly cruel. For what? Fine wool? There are plenty of alternatives yet this disgusting practise continues. These profit hungry criminals make me sick.

[bsrmybbs032206]

How many of us have never THOUGHT to question our food/clothing sources? Most of us are raised with meat, cheese, dairy, eggs, and other animal byproducts in our food, along with the wool, silk, leather, fur, pig skin, furs such as mink, fox, cat, raccoon, dog, rabbit, etc. plus teeth, claws, and various other "part" items. We were "groomed" by our parents to fit society's standards. We were taught to not queation. Open your mind, face reality... The animals are dying waiting...

[cluney96]

some people need to make a living. You obviously have not lived a bit and gone out on a farm you stupid city folk

[JADEAV]

They need to be outside eating the fresh grasses and air not being trapped inside and unhealthly....you idiot!.....

[operacat1]

@NoraJones24 Uh....the question of alternatives to wool is VERY complicated. I just posted about the fact that I'm a professional knitter, and always try to use ethically produced yarns....which makes my stuff more expensive but that's another story. I don't use man-made/synthetic fibres EVER, because the environmental cost is even higher...

[operacat1]

This is interesting....and worrying. I'm a professional knitter....and one of the things that distresses me in the UK where I live, is that most sheep are reared for meat, not for wool, because it's not 'economically viable', apparently.....and I always use what appears to be ethically, humanely produced yarn....mainly wool, but sometimes mixtures, eg. mix of wool and silk....... I wasn't aware of the extent of factory farming in the wool industry......

[xachublog]

Where's the feed to produce this ultra fine wool, even if this is real it's not profitable, a sheep eats about 3% of her body weight if those sheep weigh on avg. 130 lbs they need 3.9 lbs of food everyday, nowadays hay and corn is well over 15 cents a pound usd. It would cost $238+ dollars a year to feed them. Not considering the costs of labor and facilities. the Avg price for fine wool now is $ 5 to 10 per lb. Even if they sold theirs for $20 double the price, getting 10 lbs of a sheep, They

[DemonAMVs]

This is a tiny amount that this happens to, yes its cruel but he makes it sound like every sheep in Australia is like this. Very misleading.

[JacintainCairns]

This is a very misleading and unnecessarily emotive video. I doubt the truth of the message and it should be noted that there are millions of sheep produced in Australia that graze in open pastureland.

[LeoAsc]

So much for visions of sheep in Australia grazing in open green fields. It seems there's no limit to man's ability to think up new ways to inflict cruelty and suffering on animals, to maximize profits.

[essene8]

How sad, inhumane and terribly cruel. For what? Fine wool? There are plenty of alternatives yet this disgusting practise continues. These profit hungry criminals make me sick.