PETA Global 2018 Issue 1

MY SECRET LIFE AS A SHEEP SHEARER By Don Gaines

I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I'm a computer guy who spends hours at a time staring at a screen. I didn’t know a whole lot about sheep. If I thought about them at all, I thought they were kind of cool, in a “shepherd tending his flock” sort of way. But I no longer enjoy that blissful ignorance – because what I discovered while working as a PETA

Wool texture: © iStock.com/Roman_Gorielov

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eyewitness in sheep-shearing sheds was that sheep are suffering – greatly – just so that their stolen wool can be made into coats, sweaters, and scarves.

“I was in shock as I watched a worker twist a sheep ’ s neck over and over again until it broke.”

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