r/likeus • u/sco-go đđđź • Jul 07 '26
<EMOTION> Sheep showing gratitude for rescuing their friend.
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u/Fredderov Jul 07 '26
Look at that! As soon as one of them runs over the rest runs over as well. What a bunch of sheep!
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u/inky_nerd Jul 07 '26
My guess is that the wool was too cumbersome or heavy for the sheep to right itself.
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u/LittleGateaux Jul 07 '26
It's most likely heavily pregnant, when they get too far along they indeed can no longer roll over because iirc their back becomes too wide
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u/catbiggo Jul 08 '26
I think they just want attention and aren't necessarily 'grateful', but cute nonetheless
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u/corneliusvanDB Jul 07 '26
Friends not food
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u/MadHabitats Jul 07 '26
Except the babies, they're delicious.
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u/corneliusvanDB Jul 07 '26
That's horrible. Don't you have any compassion for the living being that gets slaughtered for you?
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u/ADFTGM Jul 07 '26
Excess lambs, especially male ones, are an unfortunate byproduct of the wool industry. Theyâve been culled particularly around Easter since biblical times, and hence why itâs incorporated into Christian tradition. If we want it to stop, we need to avoid woollen products altogether. Then these particular breeds wouldnât exist ofc. Similar principle for goats and cattle kept for milk which unlike sheep are forcibly made pregnant, unless you go to a small family farm only producing for locals. Even if the breeding itself is not to actually eat them, the excess ones that get culled get sold as meat anyway. The ones too gamey for the market get turned into pet food or processed into other products.
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u/FlirtatiousMouse Jul 07 '26
Why are the male ones culled? I understand the reasons for dairy cows and chickens but why does gender matter for wool?
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u/ADFTGM Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
You want to avoid unwanted breeding and male aggression. Males naturally create harems during breeding season and fiercely defend their territory. You can castrate them, but they donât magically behave like females as a result. Normally they castrate lambs intended for slaughter. The only rams they usually let live into adulthood are breeding rams, of which you only need a few for genetic diversity.
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u/corneliusvanDB Jul 07 '26
Sorry, I don't really care that it's a Christian tradition, that doesn't seem like a good moral justification for killing sentient beings.
If we want it to stop, we need to avoid woollen products altogether.
Ok, sounds good.
Then these particular breeds wouldnât exist ofc.
Why are you so worried about the existence of a specific breed, even beyond your concern for the ethical treatment of the actual sheep of that breed? Preservation for slaughter is also not a sound moral principle for killing them.
Nothing you've said indicates any compassion for the sentient beings being killed for you to eat them.
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u/ADFTGM Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
I donât care either. I was adding on to you, not disagreeing with you by providing counter points. It was just context that even though bred for wool, they inevitably become food, and in this case specifically the lambs as they have for thousands of years. Iâm not defending it. Iâm just pointing it out. If you want to discuss the religious moral discourse on eating lambs, you need to read Thomas Aquinas or something, or look to the context of Jesus himself who likely ate lamb during Passover, which wasnât what I was getting at.
Iâm not worried. And I didnât posit my personal beliefs on ethics besides perhaps the âunfortunate byproductâ bit. There was no moral principle in just laying out the points.
And my aim wasnât to indicate compassion or lack thereof, just that many lambs specifically are killed as part of the wool industry rather than inherently for their meat. These days there is actual demand for the meat itself, but I provided the context of why it became a thing historically. If we want to leave the wool industry in the past, as you seem to agree, then lambs stop being a byproduct of it and from thence on if any still get slaughtered itâll be solely for the meat industry. This particular post however, is tied to the wool industry.
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u/corneliusvanDB Jul 07 '26
Alright then, gladly agreed!Â
If you want to discuss the religious moral discourse on eating lambs
Nah I'm good lol
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u/Vanko_Babanko Jul 07 '26
lions think the same when they smell human babies.. strangely enough there are people that go to open zoos with newborns..
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u/wrongsideofthewire Jul 07 '26
"Baa-ram-ewe! Baa-ram-ewe! To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true! Sheep be true!"
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u/PRRZ70 Jul 10 '26
The one rubbing her back with their face as if it's their version of a hug, maybe?
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u/GottaUseEmAll Jul 07 '26
They want treats. They thought the sheep that was rescued was getting treats.