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Just in time for wool season, PETA has released its latest billboard in which Alicia Silverstone agreed to pose nude. Her message: Be kind. Leave wool behind. (And admire her behind while you’re at it.) My question: Be kind to whom?
Kind to the sheep, who allowed us to domesticate them 7,000 years ago in exchange for a guarantee of food, water, and shelter, and whose wool must now be removed each year for their health, safety, and well-being?
Kind to the soil that is enriched by the nitrogen in wool as it quickly biodegrades?
Kind to the firefighters for whom wool uniforms and a wool blanket can mean the difference between life and death?
Kind to our planet, which is currently being killed by excess carbon dioxide—a carbon dioxide that sheep effortlessly sequester massive amounts of in their fleece, and at a rate higher than that of cotton or regenerated cellulose?
Kind to our waterways, our birds, whales, fish, even, yes, our own intestines, which are carrying microplastics whose environmental and health damage we are now only beginning to comprehend?
Kind to the hard-working men and women who have dedicated their lives to sheep—for whom this is a family business, for whom their flocks are core to their lives, for whom sheep and wool represent not only their futures but those of their children?
I am all for a reasonable and well-informed debate on the issue of wool and animal welfare. There’s a lot going on here, with multiple standards being established and enforced around the world. I know smaller producers who care for their flock better than they do their own family. And I even know a few sheep farms that have committed to never send their animals off to slaughter.
As I said, there’s a lot going on here. And to dismiss it all in a single billboard of a naked actress telling us wool isn’t kind, well, it may actually be the least kind thing we need right now. #stoppickingonwool
I have yet to find a single synthetic or natural fiber that can replace the versatility of wool. Raising sheep for wool is not inherently abusive or exploitative
Adam and Eve are banished from the garden of Eden after eating the forbidden fruit [6000 B.C.]
Ok I know this meme is like 50 years old, BUT I just love oddish so much and have been eating a lot of root vegetables lately, so there you go.
mountain dew sounds like something a gentle witch would feed to her pet field mice to bless them but in reality its like drinking battery acid