afallenwolf:

brunhiddensmusings:

gayahithwen:

brunhiddensmusings:

fattyatomicmutant:

Seriously they are just weird

the year is 2018- how am i getting this much use out of this photo? is there this much ambiguity about a basic craft which has been practiced before humanity figured out mud bricks that people are still confused about how sheep work?

A lot of people today have extremely limited understanding of how anything rural works, thinking only of animals in the abstract.

Hence people who don’t understand that cows can continue to give milk way longer than their calves need it, or that you don’t have to kill sheep to get their wool, or who think that a good way to save the bees is for everyone to stop eating honey.

Like, if people don’t want to eat meat because they don’t want animals killed, and want to avoid eggs because of the cruelty prevalent in that industry, or milk because yeah, there are a fair number of issues with the dairy industry too… I will support that 100%.

But then there are people so woefully misinformed I can’t take them seriously at all.

its baffling- if you assume wool requires a sheep to be killed, thus each sheep in its lifetime will only provide one ‘crop’ of wool, then how freaking expensive would you then assume yarn to be? youd assume mutton would then be exceedingly common in the meat market as well

they make a logic tangent, and obviously abandon it two seconds after it passes where they want to go because thinking too hard will reveal that to be stupid

Isn’t it like dangerous for a sheep/lamb ect to go unshaven? 

It is! Domestic sheep do not shed their wool so they risk overheating and spinal problems due to the weight of their own wool if they don’t get sheared.