PETA Activist Irritates Farmer by Claiming That Wearing Wool Is Cruel | This Morning

we have to share the Sheep at least once a year if we don't share the Sheep it actually is is worse for the Sheep it's cruel actually to leave the wool on because they become much more prone to fly strike and maggots in the wall which eventually after a day or two if you don't spot it and treat it get into the skin and cause all sorts of serious damage also as the year gets warmer oh we we the Sheep become prone to eat stress as the wool gets longer and the coats become become heavier they get eat stress and then it makes them uh sort of sick and prone to illness that way so it is absolutely essential that we we do that to prevent them uh getting poorly actually well we'll come back to you in just a second let's let's put all of that to uh to Elisa here obviously you can't you can't fail but to be shocked by that video which was uh covertly taken in Australia but you're looking at the sheep that were sheared there on Charles's Farm um do you have a problem with that uh well I would say that if what Charles is saying is true he is a anomaly he is a diamond in the rough because that is not indicative of the industry as a whole how much we actually done on the industries yeah and we uh we have done undercover investigations at more than 30 shearing sheds and Farms across three continents and what we saw on every single one of those investigations was sheep being mutilated and being abused the footage that you saw that was only one small clip and I have to say that was actually the most benign part of it and if anyone has any doubt about the cruelty in the wool industry I really challenged them to look at the footage sheep were punched in the face they were stomped on there was even a sheep that was so roughly handled that his neck was snapped I I would say that most people wouldn't have the stomach to watch even half of that footage and if you can't watch it we're just saying don't buy it just choose something else instead because there's so many great Alternatives that are warm that are stylish that it is actually essential for the health of the sheep so how can you argue with that well I I shouldn't delude ourselves because it's not as though sheep were just dropping dead left and right before humans invented the shearing process and in the natural Order of Things sheep would produce as much wool as they need to protect themselves in the winter and then they would shed part of that wool all by themselves in the summer months but of course animal agriculture is greedy and so farmers have genetically engineered sheep to produce far more wool than nature ever intended is it greedy Charles are you are you shearing your sheep for profit absolutely not I think I've just heard the biggest load of rubbish ever from from the young lady in in the studio um to quote that they've got videos from 30 sheds and it's absolutely right through the industry when they're are absolutely hundreds of thousands if not millions of sharing systems and sheds throughout the world is a very very small percentage so I don't in my tiny brain I can't see how you can actually collate a few instances it to being widespread throughout the industry but let me just put the economics facts absolutely absolutely compare to all your audience it cost me one pound fifty to share a sheep every year I return one pound 25 for the value of the wall so actually I'm losing money on every sheep I share so therefore there is no economic incentive to share them I do it because it's absolutely essential and necessary for the Health and Welfare and the well-being of my sheep so let's just put that to Lisa so nothing to do with greed there it's actually costing him money to do it why would he do that well come on um Charles is in this business to turn a profit he's not in this out of some sense of uh humanitarian goodness and you know the thing to remember here is uh it's 2017 we actually don't need to drape ourselves in the skins of animals and the hairs of animals because there's other options available so what are the other options what do we what do we put ourselves in oh if you go up to the High Street or from designer racks uh there is cotton there's bamboo there's hemp there's recycled polyester uh when it comes to leather we're actually seeing leather being made out of pineapples out of apples out of mushrooms the possibilities are really endless from every price point on every High Street shop so the boycott the wool this winter and put Farmers like him across the country across the world out of business it's not not very friendly well look um as powerful animal rights movement is social change doesn't happen overnight or very rarely does it happen overnight we see change over the course of years over the course of generations and it's not unrealistic to think that farmers can retrain that this industry can evolve that's the way that it's always isn't it better if if you if you were fighting for a tighter regulation of the industry rather than a ban well you know it's like saying how can we make this cruel thing slightly less cruel because at the end of the day we are still exploiting these animals for uh for their hair for something that belongs to them not to us and also let's not forget that these animals once their wool production wins once they're no longer seen as commercially viable they're sent to the slaughterhouse they don't have a happy retirement and you compare us wearing wool now to the fur industry 40 years ago say yeah you know and as I said the video footage that we uncovered this wasn't doctor footage this is actual footage of what happens in shearing sheds across the world and it is sickening is every bit as violent and as bloody and as Grim as anything we've seen in the first well it didn't look like that on Charles's Farm what do you say what do you say to that Charles it's like the fur industry um look I I to be perfectly honest Phil I'm not an expert on the fair industry um and I know that people have campaigned for a long time to stop that practice of of animals being kept in cages I certainly wouldn't be a fan of that sort of behavior either but what I want to make people aware of is that I keep sheep yes I do make it to try and make a profit and and one year in three I do and sometimes I may break even sometimes I lose money but wool is a naturally occurring product it's a far better for the for the environment than man-made fibers in my opinion and actually we should get behind and we should support the wool industry because if we didn't have a viable farming industry we wouldn't have these great Landscapes and the green fields and the Moors and mountains that people in this country continue to want to to visit and enjoy it's actually farmed agriculture that has created that landscape and will do into the future I believe because it's essential that we utilize those resources to feed and clothe the growing global population

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Length: 6min 56sec (416 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 27 2017