A few other things:
1. If sheep aren't shorn, they get skin infections
2. If cows aren't milked, they get sore udders. Though, this point is up for contention since they're artificially inseminated but...
So this isn’t me arguing- you’re right and it is infuriating to listen to people with little or no experience living around animals and away from environments curated for their survival Al try to speak on things they just can’t know about. It’s like taking advice on raising a human baby from a dog. Different species different lives.
But, all of these could be a point of contention. Deer overpopulation is primarily a problem because humans took much of their habitual leaving less places for them to eat and live, and we killed off most of the natural predators that would have checked their numbers.
Sheep need sheared because we specifically bred sheep that required it. They produce excessive wool and generally do t shed the way wild sheep naturally do.
You point out cows as well. So all these things aren’t necessities of nature, their man made issues. That said- it is what it is. We bred freak sheep and so long as those sheep live they need sheared. It isn’t really
practical to give back the land to the deer or to grow the populations of predatory Carnivores like wolves and pumas that eat large game like deer by the tens of thousands and introduce them to the rages the deer live. For many reasons the least of which should be the obvious reason we wiped out so many predators to begin with.
So it isn’t as simple as to say “it’s all our fault” because the practical answer is “.. and?” Yeah. We created the problem but asides hunting the deer- what is there to be done about it? Asides letting all the sheep we bred die and eradicating the breed and then dealing with wool shortage- what can we do asides shear them? The ultimate and innocent morality says “so right at any cost” and I’m not going to fault anyone with that childlike righteousness that says the consequences don’t matter if you’re getting a results doing “wrong” or hurting others…
.. but I see a lot of people who might say that morals beat pragmatism but oddly so few of those people are to be found when enacting their high minded morals means a personal cost or sacrifice. It’s common for people to speak against a wrong that they are all to ready to benefit from and not too keen on giving up those benefits. It suits them to be able to place a moral burden on others o supplying the things they demand and doing what is unpleasant but necessary to create the world they want to live in. I wonder how many people cry to cut military spending, and then I wonder, if Russia was firing missiles and sending troops into their home town and they were crowded into a makeshift shelter, at that moment would they still think the thing they needed most was free tuition or would they wish we had more military strength..?
1. If sheep aren't shorn, they get skin infections
2. If cows aren't milked, they get sore udders. Though, this point is up for contention since they're artificially inseminated but...
But, all of these could be a point of contention. Deer overpopulation is primarily a problem because humans took much of their habitual leaving less places for them to eat and live, and we killed off most of the natural predators that would have checked their numbers.
Sheep need sheared because we specifically bred sheep that required it. They produce excessive wool and generally do t shed the way wild sheep naturally do.
You point out cows as well. So all these things aren’t necessities of nature, their man made issues. That said- it is what it is. We bred freak sheep and so long as those sheep live they need sheared. It isn’t really
So it isn’t as simple as to say “it’s all our fault” because the practical answer is “.. and?” Yeah. We created the problem but asides hunting the deer- what is there to be done about it? Asides letting all the sheep we bred die and eradicating the breed and then dealing with wool shortage- what can we do asides shear them? The ultimate and innocent morality says “so right at any cost” and I’m not going to fault anyone with that childlike righteousness that says the consequences don’t matter if you’re getting a results doing “wrong” or hurting others…