Super Fine Wool - Intensive Sheep Farming

The general view is that sheep live a life of contentment in lush green paddocks and undergo the occasional shearing to obtain their wool. That's certainly not the case for some sheep who are kept in intensive conditions to protect their fine fleeces. We speak to Lyn White from Animals Australia who visited such a farm to see what life is really like for these sheep. http://www.animalsaustralia.org/

Taken from Animals Matter, broadcast on channel 31 Melbourne 2005. http://www.animalsmatter.com.au/

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Intensive
• Sheep
• Farming
• Australia
• Animals
• Matter

[happykiddo1234]

at least this is better then killing them :-)

[cdavidiain]

An outrageous way to keep sheep and along with all factory farming outlawed immediately. I think that animal farming should play an economic and ecological role in the landscape and, consequently I am not vegetarian but the way in which animals live out their lives is an issue which has to be adressed on both ecological and, above all, humane values.

[MrHappyebby]

she is concerned about a small percentage of sheep.most of the sheep,millions of them, are turned into gyros for the arab markets.what about that lady?

[snedie69er]

Doesn't the guy who started PETA eat meat?

[dogpup23]

Even the smallest thing like being able to move around in the barn instead of being put in small individual pens, in a barn, make the hugest difference. They would get to interact with each other, walk around and over all avoid bordom. There is really no comparison between a herd of sheep in a barn and the way these sheep are living in the video. Sure some sheep are happy living in the barn sometimes but the sheep in this video are clearly NOT happy :/

[kinburncattle]

work with sheep every day they seem happier in the barn

[kinburncattle]

and get eatten by coyote's

[kinburncattle]

nazi is to jews is in approite be against it but write that

[dogpup23]

thats sad, poor sheep. sheep should be put in a pasture so they can have excercise and graze.

[DrewDawg50]

Good point, we are humans, and they are animals. Now we all know that there isn't anything wrong with harvesting animals.