#wool industry

[thewondermentofillustration]

George Washington Lambert - Weighing the Fleece, 1921, oil on canvas George Washington Thomas Lambert ARA (1873 – 1930) was an Australian painter, illustrator, and cartoonist. He is remembered as a portrait painting and as a war artist during the First World War. Lambert was born in St Petersburg and raised in Württemberg, Germany and then Somerset, England. At the age of 14 (1887), he migrated to Sydney, Australia with his grandparents. The young Lambert worked as a jackeroo on rural station properties and developed an appreciation for horses and rural scenes. In 1894, he first started exhibiting his paintings and in the next year he started to contributing cartoons to the Bulletin. Between 1896 and 1900, Lambert studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney. He spent a year in Paris (1901) before moving to London where he exhibited at the Royal Academy. Lambert was appointed an official Australian war artist in 1917 during the First World War. He visited in Gallipoli and Palestine. Lambert then returned to Australia. Much of his work was focused on portraiture and, in in 1927, he won the Archibald.

[severelynerdysheep]

But sheep aren't killed for wool!

While the process of sheering itself doesnt kill sheep (though they are comonly brutalized in the process and we do know that sheep have been killed by shearers) By purchasing wool you are indead supporting the slaughter of sheep since the meat industry props up the wool industry!

When it comes to the sheep farmed for their wool, it's important to recognize that these animals are almost always sold to be slaughtered after they are no longer profitable enough to the farmers for the wool they produce. And this happens at a fraction of their natural lifespan. A sheeps natural lifespan is up to 17 years; but farmed sheep are slaughtered, usually befo,re they reach six years old.

And by purchasing wool you are also supporting the slaughter of lambs since the lambs of these farmed sheep are commonly sold to be slaughtered as “lamb meat”. This is not only standard industry practice, but is in fact where a large percent of the income for wool farmers come from. Take the UK for example, where the majority of the income for wool farmers actually comes from selling lambs to be slaughetred, not from wool. This means that the wool industry relies on slaughtering animals for profit to survive. 

Buying wool =  Directly funding sheep and lambs being brutally slaughtered for profit. Both the lambs of sheep farmed for their wool and “spent” wool farmed sheep.

[sarahthecoat]

BBC Radio Scotland - The Archives Programme, 09/01/2020

Looking back over 40 years of Broadcasting in the isles.

I just don’t want anyone who might be interested to miss out on this. Radio Shetland archive/history, posts intermittently, streams for a few more weeks. A bit of lovely trad music, and lots of stories about early-mid 20th c life in Shetland, including the wool industry.

[livekindlyco-blog]

Anti-Wool Billboard Targeting Forever 21 Arrives in Times Square

Actor Joanna Krupa appears on a new anti-wool billboard that urges Forever 21 and the public to ditch wool due to the animal cruelty in the industry.

To reflect the cruelty of the industry, Krupa herself was “stripped bare” and wore makeup to suggest she had been “beaten” like the animals. “Sheep beaten and abused for wool need someone on their side, too,” Krupa said in a statement. “My PETA ad may be shocking to look at, but I hope it will open people’s eyes and encourage them to choose kind, wool-free fashion.”

[fashionbooksmilano]

Rich and Rare The Story of Dawson International

Jackie Moore 

Henry Melland, London 1986,  110 pages

euro 35,00*

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The Scotland-based company, with a rich history stretching back to the 1870s, sells the luxury material to brands including Chanel, Hermès and Dior.

Dawson was founded by Bradford mill owner Joseph Dawson after being inspired by a visit to the Indian province of Kashmir

It was once an international giant owning the labels Pringle and Ballantyne, and employed thousands of staff across the world.

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[severelynerdysheep]

But sheep need shearing!

While yes, unfortunately, the wool of domesticated sheep need to be sheared due to being genetically engineered for the purpose of maximizing wool production. This is not a justification for continuing to breed these animals into existence in mass to exploit and slaughter for profit. Nor is it a justification for supporting this industry as a consumer.

Nobody is saying that it's okay to just leave these farmed sheep to suffer in these bodies without sheering. The actual solution to this problem of these animals that require human intervention due to domestication is to boycott the wool industry and refuse to support such cruelty. So that fewer and fewer sheep are bred to be farmed as demand for wool decreases. The solution is the abolishment of this industry so these sheep aren't bred into these bodies so harmful to health and these lives of suffering and slaughter.  So they don't need to be sheered in the first place. 

Some links: 

~  I would absolutely recommend checking out this article by @acti-veg and Bitesizevgegan and also a great short video on the topic (here).

~  Some links to recent investigations into the wool industry here. and some of the most recent investigations here, here, here and here.

~ Viva report on the wool industry here

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