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Sheep Shearing
Like animals in all of the Ekka exhibits the sheep section including the Poll Marino Rams also proved to be just as inadequate in caring appropriately for their animal’s basic needs. The pitiful exhibit of sheep shearing displayed a number of animals with deep gashes to their flesh from the shears. Surely, the men responsible for this were more careful than usual due to an audience, therefore injuries incurred generally would be far greater when time is money rather than a romantic, cultural display of rural skills.
What they don’t show you:Mulesing describes the procedure whereby Australian farmers mutilate lambs without any painkillers by carving large chunks of flesh from the animals’ upturned backsides in an effort to reduce fly strike. These sheep are then shipped thousands of miles through all weather extremes, standing in their own waste on open-deck, disease-ridden, multitiered ships to the Middle East, North Africa, and other places, where their throats are slit while they are fully conscious. Many sick and injured sheep, treated as mere cargo, are thrown overboard or ground up in mincing machines while they are still alive. Like other farmed animals at the Ekka, sheep also endure general day to day mass violence such as transportation without food, water or shade, castration and slaughter. |
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