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Sentient Sheep
Although
the above photograph of sheep in deep snow on a
bright frosty morning makes nice wallpaper, it is
upsetting to see sheep out in extremes of weather
with no shelter or grazing. It had snowed heavily
over night, blizzard conditions and the Durham Dales
where covered in thick snow. These particular sheep
did eventually receive feed, but this does not
always seem to be the case for many sheep trapped in
fields and in the hills covered with deep snow and
no access to grazing or any kind of shelter.
Early
spring lambs. These photographs where taken in mid
February.
In nature breading happens
once each year, the ewe (female sheep) comes into season in the autumn
and sometimes in winter and gives birth when it is
warmer in the spring. Ewes naturally give birth to
one and more rarely two lambs. However modern farming
practices interfere with this natural cycle by the use of
hormones and controlled lighting whilst keeping ewes
confined to sheds in order to capitalise
on sales of lamb for Easter and lambs are born earlier,
sometimes as early as January even December. The
consequences of this abuse are dire; many of these tiny
lambs do not survive the cold and each year over one
million new born lambs die of exposure within days of
being born. For more information on
these issues please refer to
Liberate our sheep
and
Think Differently Go Veggie/Vegan
I do so
hate to see those numbers on sheep, in my view it is
abusive to treat animals as though they where
inanimate objects. I am told this is done in order
for the farmer to know which lambs belong to which
mother.
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