yeah real funny.
"In Australia, the most commonly raised sheep are Merinos, specifically bred to have wrinkly skin, which means more wool per animal. This unnatural overload of wool causes animals to die of heat exhaustion during hot months, and the wrinkles also collect urine and moisture. Attracted to the moisture, flies lay eggs in the folds of skin, and the hatched maggots can eat the sheep alive. To prevent flystrike, Australian ranchers perform a barbaric operation
mulesingor
carving huge strips of flesh off the backs of unanesthetized lambs legs and around their tails. This is done to cause smooth, scarred skin that wont harbor fly eggs, yet the bloody wounds often get flystrike before they heal.3
Within weeks of birth, lambs ears are hole-punched, their tails are chopped off, and the males are castrated without anesthetics. Male lambs are castrated when between 2 and 8 weeks old, with a rubber ring used to cut off blood supplyone of the most painful methods of castration possible.4 Every year, hundreds of lambs die before the age of 8 weeks from exposure or starvation, and mature sheep die every year from disease, lack of shelter, and neglect.5 Faced with so much death and disease, the rational solution would be to reduce the number of sheep so as to maintain them decently. Instead, sheep are bred to bear more lambs to offset the deaths."
thats so silly, want to see a picture of mulesing? its hilarious.

ugh