It is often believed that it is ethical to wear wool because sheep need to be sheared. However, this is only true because we have selectively bred them in such a way that they no longer naturally shed their wool for the warmer months like wild sheep do. In essence, we have changed them physically to maximise the amount of money we can make from them, and then we mutilate them to try to reduce the incidence of a condition that is a problem precisely because we have selectively bred them. Then, to top it all off, we claim that the reason we mutilate them and literally carve off chunks of their
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