Sheeps

The lambs are cut from the flesh, cut and cauterized the tail by fire or with a hot blade, all raw, without anesthesia. Tail mutilation is an extremely painful procedure: sheep feel the pain of having their spine, skin and flesh amputated. Rings are placed tightly around their scrotum, still without anesthesia, which is extremely painful, so that their testicles wilt and eventually fall out weeks later. When the testicles do not fall out fast enough, shearers cut them with their shears. They also cut off pieces of flesh from their rumps. Mother sheep witness the scene and frantically cry out as their twisting and crying lambs in pain are mutilated.

Next, the workers would drop the lambs to the ground or onto a blood-stained carpet, where many of them fell heavily on their bloody wounds. Many people die of hunger or bad weather before they are 8 weeks old.

Paid by volume, the shearers work at an infernal pace and severely slash the sheep (large pieces of skin are cut), summarily stitch up their wounds on the disgusting ground where the shearing took place, without painkilling.

As the sheep panic, they are pinned to the ground and the shearers stomp on them and stand on their heads and necks, compress their throats, and kick their stomachs. They violently manhandle frightened animals, twist their necks and limbs, and strike their heads and bodies on the hardwood floor. Shearers also punch the face, goad them, and hit them on the head with metal cutting clippers. Throwing sheep from a certain height causes injuries and fractures to their necks, limbs etc.

No pain relief is given to sheep when they are pierced through the skin with a needle, which was not sterilized, to somehow sew up bloody wounds caused by violent and hasty shearing. Some animals suffer from mastitis (a painful infection of the udders), uterine prolapse (a descent of the uterus towards the vulva, even its exteriorization) and bloody hooves. Injured or sick sheep do not receive veterinary care. Many sheep die during shearing from some kind of cardiac arrest. We drag the sheep which are unable to walk into a shed where we let succumb.

We cut the throats of fully conscious sheep, with a knife, then we break their necks. The sheep show overt signs of acute distress and pain for almost a minute as the keeper twists his head and neck and slits his throat. Some sheep kick for two minutes.

Sheep deemed undesirable by industry are loaded into extremely overcrowded freighters and sent on a terrifying journey to the Middle East or North Africa, where they are butchered, often fully conscious.