Sheep things?

I think I know a few things.

[ellmovy]

noisy birds abundant in my undisclosed rural hometown in South East Queensland, Australia

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[summerofofelia]

THE LESS EVIL CUNT HAS WON

[kaiserouo]

i love ghosts

[pangur-and-grim]

sketches based on the idea ‘you are what you eat!’

crimson sunbird + hibiscus

australian bushturkey + mycena

sword-billed hummingbird + passionflower

regent honeyeater + eucalyptus

[kt--extinction]

Ouessant sheep are so fuckin tiny

The sheer unsize of these beasts

[blatantescapism]

ohhhhhh my god

[cristalplanetheart]

[bogleech]

I love contemplating how actually scary this is. Nothing in horror movies affects me anymore but I get the most wonderful chills from the idea of these beautiful, haunting, mindless things just hovering in this murky water like a minefield for anyone foolish enough to go swimming or unlucky enough to fall in. How it’s still not as bad as being a fish small enough for them to paralyze and consume. How they regularly paralyze and consume fish but evolved before anything like a fish ever existed. A fish is such a complex creature that can see and think and navigate and be afraid but sometimes it touches these brainless, boneless, ghostly things that were just already there, millions of years sooner, and it dies and it never understands why that is. The thing that killed it and ate it doesn’t know either, it doesn’t know anything. It doesn’t have enough of a brain to even realize it has killed and eaten something. Some of its cells simply fired little harpoons into the cells of the other thing, and squirted deadly chemicals into them, and hauled up the paralyzed body to digest it. It’s a spider’s web without a spider but it still fills things with venom and eats them. :)

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[rongzhi]

Investigating where cashmere comes from

English added by me :)

Also, since it frequently gets commented on in other posts: the choice of bgm is because Jingle Bell Rock doesn't necessarily have the same cultural significance in China (or at least not to OP) so it's not particularly recognized as a holiday/winter song

[anais-ninja-bitch]

this man is so important to me. he is out there living his best life, loving what he does, getting screamed at by medium sized herd mammals, and educating the world about small but fun and important things.

thank you, OP, so much for the translations!

[lamaenthel]

shoutout to paris hilton for not abandoning her ‘micropig’ 

when it turned out that it was a normal piggy who grew up to be a big fat fatty piggu

[chupicronian]

Actually that’s pretty standard size for a micro pig. Pigs are ENORMOUS, dude. The average pig on a farm is 7 feet long and over 700 lbs. A normal pig would be much bigger than Hilton.

EDIT: This is a photo of the world’s smallest recognized breed of pig, the kune kune. I’m sorry cartoons lied to you all.

This is the pot bellied pig, another famous “small” breed.

This is your average adult pig.

[catbountry]

Big ole’ pigs.

[kamiyu910]

Wild boars can feed people for a very long time! I believe this one was 1800 lbs. (largest piggy ever was about 1,984 lbs)

[annabellioncourt]

I NOW KNOW WHY WILD BOARS WERE SO DANGEROUS IN THE DARK AGES HOLY SHIT; RICHARD III I TAKE BACK ALL THE TRASH I TALKED ABOUT YOUR HOUSE CREST GOOD GOD THAT’S TERRIFYING.

[normal-horoscopes]

Fun fact:

You need special spears with a cross brace for killing boar because they’re so fuckoff tough. If you stab a charging boar through the mouth it will simply keep charging at you. Hence the cross brace.

[scoutsmoocrew]

What's the biggest sheep breed you know of? I'd never really thought of them for anything but wool or meat :o

I guess it’s the Lincoln sheep

Or the Suffolk

[19-16-deactivated20220207]

none of us knows what actually goes on in slaugherhouses, we all think it’s like the animals are a lil tight, other than that they have food and water ofc because they need to feed right, and then they just get quickly murdered at the end. but it’s nothing like that, most of them are injured, their illnesses are never treated and many of them are in constant pain. they are not given water. they are beaten and kicked by workers—and all of this of course makes the pigs realize they are being tortured, that their fate is not good, that they are in the hands of evil. so they are in constant panic. it’s not like the animals are fucking dumb and don’t realize. that’s the problem they know the whole time what awaits them. in their eyes is a look we have never had in ours. not to mention the workers aren’t pitiful of them, they let them scream screech, they don’t kill them properly at times before cutting them—and of course this is done in places that reek of blood, the animals watch each other die. imagine what that’s like, being at the hands of a species that has knives and tools and ugly evil faces and you watch other members of your species die horrible deaths….I just I can’t think about this anymore I just had to post this here. understand these animals are not dumb, they are fighting for their lives and they never had a fucking chance. I have never in my fucking life watched such terror. not in images of wars or even of rape and stuff, I have never seen this much panic in our species. 

[agro-carnist]

“Nobody knows what goes on in a slaughterhouse. Anyways let me tell you exactly what happens in slaughterhouses”

[scoutsmoocrew]

Having been in a slaughterhouse (for cows) it’s mostly

+ cows show up. cows get put in holding pens. Holding pens have water. They have hay if they’re in for 24+ hours

+ most slaughter cattle are 18 month old feeders, they’re young and healthy

+ you get your cull cows which are older and more likely to have problems but I mean. They’re getting put down.

+ cows get walked in small groups to stun box. If you’ve worked cows you know panicking cows are dangerous to work with so you try to keep them calm

+ cows go into stun box and get a captive bolt. It’s lights out from there. That is the end of their experience

[dogged-hot]

Genuine question - what was the scale of the slaughterhouse OP is referring to, versus the scale of the slaughterhouse the last responder is referring to?

If it’s a giant corporate slaughterhouse owned by a company the size of Tyson vs a small regional slaughterhouse, it would make sense that those are completely different experiences.

(this is from the pov of someone unfamiliar with this entire issue)

[scoutsmoocrew]

the one I was referring to was an industrial JBS plant

[champawattigress]

“I have never in my fucking life watched such terror. not in images of wars or even of rape and stuff, I have never seen this much panic in our species.” 

Animals in a slaughterhouse evoke more empathy from OP than images of actual human beings being murdered and raped. Gross AF.

[vet-and-wild]

I was on the kill floor of a small processing plant/slaughterhouse in undergrad. For poultry, but I also had to watch videos of other species for the entire process from unloading to carcass grading for my AnSci degree. And also in vet school too (normally we go in person but COVID). Plus I worked on a pig farm and we did have to load them onto transport trucks, and occasionally I’d help unload them at the plant too. This is such a load of bs. The animals do not know why they are there, they are not in constant panic, and the employees are not beating/kicking them. They will be stressed by rough handling or bad layouts but they don’t particularly act any different than when being handled on farm. Sometimes pigs would balk when we loaded them, sometimes they’d balk when we unloaded them. Sometimes they’d balk when we tried to get them into a new pen. If we weren’t aware of our body position, corners, lighting, distractions, etc the pigs could become stressed or scared. That’s why advances have been made for livestock handling equipment, chutes, flooring, etc. Farm animals deserve to be handled as low stress as possible.

Also sick/injured animals get condemned. Down cows don’t get slaughtered for human consumption. There are also very high first time stun rates that need to be achieved. If the animal happens to not be knocked completely insensible after stunning, they get stunned again. They don’t get “cut alive” or whatever. And stunning is just stunning, not killing. The stun knocks them insensible, it doesn’t kill them. (This is why you get the “but they’re alive when their throats are cut!” bs. Yes their hearts are beating, but they are not conscious for this and feel nothing). Sometimes ARA videos show dead animals “moving” and claim that they’re still alive but it’s not true. Involuntary movement happens after death. It happens when we euthanize pets, and it happens when we slaughter livestock. It’s common enough that I always tell owners it may happen because it is definitely disturbing if you’re not expecting it. But it’s just part of the body shutting down and does not mean the animal is still alive.

The first time I was on a kill floor I 100% questioned my diet choices. There’s that whole saying about “if slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian”. I just don’t agree, because I have seen dozens, if not a couple hundred classmates experience what a slaughterhouse is really like and none of them became vegetarian/vegan. No one likes watching animals die. A lot of people probably would be faced with the reality of where their food comes from and decide against eating meat, and that’s understandable. But that’s a personal choice based on individual morals. Slaughterhouses do have a lot of blood and death (because, duh) and that makes them inherently disturbing for a lot of people. But that doesn’t mean this creepy torture porn that ARAs are obsessed with is happening. Sorry if this is blunt, but it’s true; a large number of animals die in a relatively short period of time. It’s a lot for people to mentally process, and it’s perfectly reasonable if you come to the conclusion that you don’t want to be part of that system. But these weird torture fantasies are a lot more disturbing than anything that actually happens in the majority of processing plants/slaughterhouses in this country.

[soundlessseaturtle]

THIS, THIS, THIS! @dairyisntscary & @vet-and-wild

This is a very heavy subject. One that people in this industry do not take lightly. USDA inspected slaughter facilities put a priority on humane processing of livestock and poultry. The first post is pure crap

1.) Any animal that displays symptoms of disease detrimental to food safety cannot be processed into edible product

2.) Low gastrointestinal fill reduces the chance for contaminating edible product during the slaughtering process

3.) High stress in animals prior to slaughter leads to poor meat quality

4.) Sometimes reflexes occur after an animal is stunned. The stun renders the animal unconscious and insensible to pain. Exsanguination (bleeding) has to be fully complete before processing can begin. There is NO blood in meat (it would congeal and be like a jelly filled doughnut–no thanks) As a result, there is blood in processing plants

5.) Again, stressed animals=poor meat quality. Improper stunning/killing can cause meat defects

READ A *FACT BASED* BOOK!

[thatsbelievable]

[scoutsmoocrew]

WHAT BREED ARE THESE THESE ARE THE KIND OF SHEEP I NEED IN MY LIFE

[sheep-occasions]

They look like Jacob Sheep

[avoiding-claws]

The university of Cambridge is doing some amazing research on brachycephalic dogs and Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome (BOAS).

This is one of the newer infographics aimed at educating owners about the less obvious signs that their dog may have issues breathing.

[angelinajoliesbottom]

[squeemez]

[sighinastorm]

COW NAP COW NAP COW NAPS COW NAP

[dairymoos]

The truth about cows and environment

Cows account for less than 4% of GHG emmisions in the U.S. while crops produce 4.8%

Cows take worthless grass/cellulose (that people can’t digest) and convert to nutrient dense foods. Without cows, you would need significantly more plant agriculture/ and environmental resources i.e. land, water

As a result changing your diet to vegan will only reduce your environmental impact as much as reducing 1 transatlantic flight

People forget though that cows are an important part of the earths ecology and nessesary- they perform an important function.

Methane from cows remains constant in the atmosphere— 10-15yrs— while C02 from fossil fuels accumulate in the environment— C02 lasts 100yrs. The key to reducing our environmental impact is not from changing our diet but reducing our dependence on fossils fuels

Dairy farmers in the U.S. have reduced their environmental impact 63% over the last 65 years. They’ve been able to produce more milk with less cows.

And many farmers today are working to convert the methane to renewable energy. Implementing this technology on dairy farms will allow these farms to become carbon-negative. Meaning they’ll be pulling more carbon out of the system than they put in- while producing renewable energy and food.

Cows have the potential to be the great change makers in our society

Cows can change our world for the better 🌎 🐄 🌱

[ariassong]

@dairyisntscary

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