One of the most common excuses that people chose to hold to, convincing themselves that it’s o.k. to exploit animals, mainly regarding to eating meat, is that it is natural. It is much easier for them to live with themselves, after they decided that it is o.k. for humans to use animals, regardless of their horrible everyday reality.
They don’t look for the truth but a superficial excuse to hold on to. No matter how ridicules it is, how inconsecutive it is, they don’t care as long as they got something to say when they are asked about meat eating.

Simple biology facts are off hand canceled when they don’t not feet with their wishes and convenience habits. Humans’ extreme alienation from nature is being forgotten when they are hungry or feel like buying new shoes. Then, all of a sudden every human is natural born hunter.

How can humans not be aware of this absurd argument? Especially when they claim while being in an elevator or their car! With an air conditioner! With a stereo system! With cloths on of course, sunglass and a cell phone! Very “natural” indeed.

There is a very little chance to convince such a fixated, low self aware, narrow minded, apathetic, irrational, selfish creature to even listen and maintain a rational conversation. Convincing someone to entirely change his lifestyle is very very rare.

Don’t convince yourself there is nothing to do about it, “because it’s a process”. Tell the dairy cows and the laying hens that they “have” to suffer until the one that just decided to become a vegetarian will decide to take the next step and become a vegan.

If you still act in a conventional ways, you are actually saying to the dairy cows and the laying hens to wait for the revolution. Tell the 45 billion crippled broiler chickens “there is nothing to do… it is a process you see…..”. how convenient that we don’t have to face them.
Their suffer is in the hands of selfish and greedy humans. Very unreliable hands. Get their fate out of humans’ hands. Elimination is the only way to free the world from their tyranny. Working with humans, hopping they’ll voluntarily give up their total control position, their god status, is stupidly naïve and morally dangerous.
We must tear the domination from them by all means. And you know what that means.

The wool industry is a felicitous example of the “it is natural” excuse.
In order to keep the conscience clear, humans seriously believe that shearing sheep’s wool is some kind of twisted symbiosis. They are right. It’s a symbiosis between the world’s two best friends, humanity and greed.

Many people believe that shearing sheep helps animals who might otherwise be burdened with too much wool, but without human interference, sheep grow just enough wool to protect themselves from temperature extremes. The fleece provides effective insulation against both cold and heat.

Sheep were domesticated about 10,000 years ago. They have been bred to suit human requirements and most sheep today bear little resemblance to their wild ancestors. Neither have they followed the same scale of intensification as other livestock and the farming of sheep has escaped major public criticism (save for the live export trade) because this limited concept of 'behavioural freedom' is deemed to equal good welfare.

Wool is not taken from sheep that live a gentle existence on a lush grassy knoll. Sheep are raised for financial gain (for meat). Wool provides extra income to perpetuate that industry. It is a misconception that wool is simply a by-product of the meat industry and that one might even be providing a service by 'using it up'.

Sheep are by nature nervous, shy animals and are often actually frozen with terror. They are roughly treated - grabbed for injections, up-ended for shearing, artificially inseminated, dipped, tagged, castrated and tail-docked. They die of cold, heat or thirst and suffer appalling ill-health, which itself often goes unnoticed.

To provide more surface area for wool, meaning more wool for greater profits, Merinos (a type of sheep) were bred for excess skin wrinkles, but extra skin meant extra suffer.

This unnatural overload of wool causes animals to die of heat exhaustion during hot months, and the wrinkles also collect urine and moisture. Attracted to the moisture, flies lay eggs in the folds of skin, and the hatched maggots can literally eat sheep alive. To prevent "flystrike", Australian ranchers perform a barbarous operation--"mulesing"--or carving huge strips of skin off the backs of unanesthetized lambs' legs. This is done to cause smooth, scarred skin that won't harbor fly eggs. Yet the bloody wounds often get flystrike before they heal; and despite the feeling by many that mulesing may kill more sheep than it saves, the mutilation continues.

The true horror of flystrike cannot be described or imagined. The sheep’s flesh is slowly consumed by thousands of swarming maggots until death finally results. In the meantime, the animals become so distressed they cannot eat, drink or sleep, sheep can die within a few days but many linger for up to several weeks, often in the burning sun without relief from shade. It results in millions of slow agonizing deaths each year.

Going through this barbaric operation, or have to suffer from the horrible disease of flystrike, either way the sheep lose

Can you imagine the public outcry if someone grabbed a dog and sliced away skin and flesh the size of a dinner plate from around her/his anus and tail with a pair of shears and without anaesthetic? Well Australian protection laws, whilst prohibiting such cruelty on companion animals, allow this gory primitive act to be carried out on millions of sheep each year.

Wool insulates sheep from the cold (in the winter) and the heat (in the summer) although specialist breeding ensures more wool than is actually natural or necessary. Whilst in full fleece, they find it difficult to cope with local irritations and usually week a post or rail (sheep rarely groom each other). In the absence of a suitable object to rub against they will roll on to their backs. When in full fleece or heavily pregnant they may fail to get up, and if not seen, will die. Not all the lambs recognise their mother without her coat and the ewe may not be able to count her lambs correctly. If shearing is to be done before lambing, the handling of the ewe close to her due date may cause birthing difficulties.

Wool is normally removed from sheep during the early summer. However, this can be during very early in spring or in winter soon after housing. The majority are shorn for the first time at 14-15 months old, and then annually. Wet, windy and cold conditions can result in severe chilling, and in some cases, death. It takes 7-8 weeks for the coat to grow sufficiently to protect the animal.

We’d like to believe that wool harvesting causes little or no discomfort, that the wool is shaved from the outside of the sheep, much like a haircut, leaving the animal cool and comfortable for the summer. After all, wild sheep have the ability to shed their own wool during the warm months and retain it during the winter. But shearing is nothing like shedding. The sheep are thrown on their backs and restrained while a razor is running over their bodies.
Whether sheared manually or mechanically, cuts in the skin are very common. Careless shearing can injure teats, pizzles, other appendages, and ligaments. Sheep are held in restraints with tight clamps on their faces when they’re mechanically sheared. Naked to the world, sheep are put back out to pasture where they can suffer severe sunburn or freeze as the heat is drawn from their bodies.

When shearing, speed is everything. Shearers are usually paid by volume, not by hour, which encourages working quickly and carelessly. Says one eyewitness: "the shearing shed must be one of the worst places in the world for cruelty to animals. I have seen shearers punch sheep with their shears or fists until the sheep's noses bled. I have seen sheep with half their faces shorn off."

Death can occur when the shearer is rough and twists the sheep into an organ-damaging position, when the health of the sheep is already poor, or when being stripped of wool is a shock to the sheep’s system.

Under natural conditions sheep will reproduce every spring after a five month pregnancy. Ewes are physiologically designed to produce a single lamb with each gestation (twins are relatively rare in nature). But genetic selection and intensive feeding have created a situation whereby twins and even triplets are commonplace. Although they only have, two teats and can only feed one or two lambs.

Lambing time has also been manipulated. Instead of taking place in spring, between 10% and 15% of the annual lamb “crop” is now produced between December and the end of February. The aim is to get the lambs to market ahead of competition. Within days of their birth, many of the surviving youngsters are turned out to face the winter weather.

Lambing time has also been manipulated. Instead of taking place in spring, between 10% and 15% of the annual lamb “crop” is now produced between December and the end of February.

The aim is to get the lambs to market ahead of competition. Within days of their birth, many of the surviving youngsters are turned out to face the winter weather. During lambing "spare" lambs are forced to be adopted by ewes with a spare teat. One way that this is done is to skin a dead infant and put the skin over the "spare" lamb - it is hoped that this will persuade the ewe that the new lamb is infact her own. The ewe may also be held by her neck in 'stocks' for up to three days to prevent her from rejecting the newly born lamb.

The oestrus of each ewe may be manipulated so that they give birth at the same time. A much more convenient option for farmers. Progestagen sponges are inserted into the vagina and around two weeks later ewes are artificially inseminated. Damage may be caused by insertion of the sponge. Sponges are left in for two weeks and then pregnant mares' serum gonadotrophin (PMSG) is injected into each ewe.

Teaser rams are often also introduced into the flock to help the whole process along. Semen is collected from rams using an artificial vagina. Breeding rams have their semen extracted by giving them painful electrical shocks via a probe that's driven deep into their anus. Each ejaculation will give 2 ml of semen and can be used to impregnate 40 ewes.

Statistics show that one in five lambs born do not survive and the reasons are simply bad welfare.

Weaning
Ewes' colostrum transfers temporary immunity to disease to the lamb, provides a highly concentrated source of energy and acts as a laxative to ensure the digestive system works properly. Feeding colostrum using a stomach tube should not be carried out on very weak or moribund lambs because there is a risk of the tube entering the wind-pipe. If the lamb does not receive colostrum during the first two to three hours after birth, it is prone to hyperthermia. Scour (diarrhoea) outbreaks are on the increase in young lambs and adequate colostrum is a vital factor in its prevention.

The practice of placing newly-weaned ewes on minimal rations and restricted water supplies to dry off milk production has been carried out for many years, supposedly to reduce both discomfort and the potential development of mastitis, there is no scientific basis for this

Shortly after birth, lambs are subjected to two painful mutilations: castration and tail-docking.
Males are castrated in order to prevent unplanned breeding, even tough many lambs are slaughtered before they reach sexual maturity, and to reduce aggression.

Castration is usually carried out by the following methods:

The application of a tight rubber ring carried out without anesthetic under one week of age. The application of a bloodless castrator such as the Burdizzo. Surgical castration involving cutting the skin carried out without anesthetic up to three months of age.

Hemorrhage and local infections are always a risk and may lead to death. It is just as painful on the day of birth as several weeks of age.

The castration technique most commonly used is to restrict blood supply to the testicles through the use of a tight rubber ring, causing them to wither and drop off within a few weeks.

The tails of all lambs are removed, mainly to reduce the urine and faeces staining, which attracts sheep blowflies. Tails are either cut off with a knife, or made to drop off by applying tight rubber rings.

Sheep are identified by the following methods: Ear notching which is carried out from a few days of age up to about 8 weeks causing bleeding.
Ear tattooing at a few months which may cause the formation of haematoma. Ear tagging at any age may cause infection and fly strike around the tag hole particularly in the summer.
horn branding when sufficient horn has grown at about 12 months of age which may cause pain if not carried out on the insensitive part of the horn.

Aging sheep are subjected to "tooth-grinding", an unanesthetized procedure that sheep farmers claim reduces tooth loss and extends the sheep's productive life. A battery-operated grinder is used to wear down the teeth. Another method involves using the edge of a disc cutter to cut right through the teeth near the level of the gums. This terrifying and painful procedure exposes the sensitive pulp cavities inside and causes the teeth to bleed profusely faced with such vast amounts of death and disease, the rational step would be to reduce the numbers of sheep so as to maintain the existing ones decently. Instead, sheep are forced to bear more lambs by the administration of drugs. Malnourished ewes are taken into laboratories and placed in climate-controlled chambers to determine how much exposure they can withstand before they die.

Lameness
Lameness is a major health and welfare problem in all sheep producing countries and it is unlikely that lameness could ever be totally eradicated. It is generally regarded as the greatest cause of pain and discomfort in sheep.

One of main causes of lameness is foot-rot and research has shown that foot-rot in sheep can result in higher death rate and increased susceptibility to fly strike. It is spread from sheep to sheep via pasture or bedding contaminated with bacteria from the feet of infected animals (which may be symptomless carriers).

Farmers Weekly writes in February 1997 that lame sheep were found in 92% of flocks covered by a Royal Veterinary College survey relating to 758,252 ewes and 427,277 lambs.

Like other "commodities," animals can fall victim to fluctuations in the economy. A data that illustrates the treatment toward sheep - In 1990, 10 million Australian sheep were shot and buried in mass graves when they became practically valueless due to a lingering drought and low wool prices.

Like other "commodities," animals can fall victim to fluctuations in the economy. A data that illustrates the treatment toward sheep - In 1990, 10 million Australian sheep were shot and buried in mass graves when they became practically valueless due to a lingering drought and low wool prices.

Wildlife "Scapegoats"
Sheep aren't the only animals who suffer as a result of the wool industry. The Australian government permits the slaughter of approximately 5 million kangaroos a year because it views them as "pests" who eat grass ranchers want for their sheep and cows. Ninety percent of kangaroo killers are "weekend" hunters, killing by the most expedient methods available: running kangaroos down in trucks, poisoning their water, beating them to death, even impaling them on stakes and meat hooks and skinning them alive. The standard kangaroo hunting technique, as recounted by Paul and Anne Erlich in their book Extinction: “The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species, is to "spotlight" them from cars at night. The kangaroos would freeze in the light and were shot with rifles. Some were killed immediately, but some hunters purposely just wounded them--sometimes leaving them to suffer for hours or days so that their meat would remain fresh until they could be collected." According to Dr. Susan Lieberman of the Humane Society of the U.S., joeys, or young kangaroos "are not considered to be worth the cost of a bullet...and are often killed by being thrown against a tree or car bumper or kicked in the head."
In the U.S., coyotes, vilified for allegedly preying on sheep and other livestock, are poisoned, shot and burned alive by the hundreds of thousands every year by ranchers and the U.S. government.

Their tails are docked; they are impregnated, castrated, sheared, prodded, packed, shipped and slaughtered.
Adult sheep are kept alive to produce wool and lambs, year after year, until they are too old to be cost-effective and are sent off to slaughter. Every year, ewes experience the labor of lambing, the love of mothering, and the loss of their frightened babies when they are taken away and sold to the local butcher or nearest slaughterhouse. And every year the ewes are impregnated all over again. Every year, lambs experience harsh weather, body mutilations, separation from their mothers, and slaughter.

If a species is capable of doing all that and a lot more to innocents animals, just for fashionable preferences, there is no argument that this species has got to go!