Elisa Allen, director at PETA, wrote to Wool Parish Council asking for the 1,000-year-old village to be renamed 'Vegan Wool'.
She must be baarmy.
The people of Melton Mowbray must be bracing themselves.
She'll be apopletic when she hears about the place outside Richmond on Thames
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I can’t believe Wolverhampton has lasted this long
Talking of sheep and nutters!!!
Yes, that is a 6ex toy............
You'll have to explain what's goin on it that pic, natrix.
Or, er, maybe don't.
director at PETA
That's your answer right there.
I do so wish PETA and their ilk would just die in a fire (as an organisation). They're well-meaning but stark staring bonkers and do more harm than good half the time.
They certainly know how to drum up publicity.
Not sure I want to know what's going on in Natrix's pic, TBH. But I'm sure it was OK because the sheep needed culling/fisting anyway.
You’ll have to explain what’s goin on it that pic, natrix.
Is that Dealta Bloodram?
Is that Dealta Bloodram?
I don't know but she's giving me the horn 😉
Don't explain the pic, lets all use our imaginations ....
You couldn't make i tup.
quality
If she thinks taking their wool is cruel, wait till she hears about Ramsbottom.
You’ll have to explain what’s goin on it that pic,
Hen party with that American celebrity hunter, hunting sheep in Norfolk (WTAF!) posing with 'toy' from the night before.........................
That is the most exciting thing to ever happen here apart from the petition not to build some houses nearby.
If this gets through i'll have to find another job as I am not working somewhere associated with Vegans!
What do i do if I encounter a militant vegan while out riding my Spearfish?
Any Vegan approved bike names?
She shot a sheep then rubber-fisted it?
How very odd.
What do these vegans do when confronted with a warm Gregg's sausage roll? You can't honestly tell me they would refuse it?
She shot a sheep then rubber-fisted it?
And you're very, very lucky, she did it in that order.
The place-name 'Wool' is first attested in Anglo-Saxon Writs from 1002 to 1012, where it appears as Wyllon. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it appears as Wille and Welle, and as Welles in 1212 in the Book of Fees. The name means 'springs' in the sense of the related word wells.
So it doesn't even mean wool.
What do these vegans do when confronted with a warm Gregg’s sausage roll? You can’t honestly tell me they would refuse it?
I'm not vegan and I'd refuse it.
WTF is the story behind that photo? Did she use the fist of fury before or after it died? What’s wrong with her?
Did she beat it to death with a rubber dong?
Maybe she should visit ****t. Or not.
Another 'anti-PC' outrage-goading headline?
First the OP's linked article (Bournemouth Echo) headline makes the bold claim that Peta are demanding the village changes it's name. Sounds insane and dictatorial.
Then we read the article and it seems that Peta merely suggested to the village that change the name to raise awareness of non-animal 'wool' alternatives.
Now it sounds merely naive, but it certainly isn't as nutty or nasty as them wot writes the news are making out. I'm sure Daily ****** readers will lap it up too. Home-goal for animal welfare/ anti-cruelty groups? Or were they misquoted? You get to decide.
https://www.peta.org.uk/media/news-releases/will-everyone-in-the-village-of-wool-get-a-free-blanket/
After you've been primed by the tabloids, of course.
Remember, every story has at least two sides.
(PS I have worked with sheep farmers, and I have seen some stuff like this (kicking heads, manhandling, pulling off the trailer by legs resulting in ripped flesh from old equipment, sharp edges, hazardous environment etc), workers taking out their stresstosterone and anger on the sheep. I have no idea how widespread it is and do not claim that it is or isn't. I'm guessing the same could be said for all nearly everyone who is reading this?
It's only fair that Wool should be a place name; Nylon is. More accurately, it's two place names, New York and London.
I live in a town called Mixed Fibres on Hand Wash Only Street
Funniest post from Mervern Rider! Brilliant 😂
It’s only fair that Wool should be a place name; Nylon is. More accurately, it’s two place names, New York and London.
*Qi Klaxon sounds* 👍
So rumours that Richard Bacon's been forced into hiding are also an exaggeration?
Wool is a by product of shearing a sheep. NOT shearing sheep in the UK is perhaps the most cruel thing you can do. I well trained shearer will very very rarely have cause to get annoyed with a sheep. I have probably seen a few hundred thousand sheep shorn, and shorn a few 10s of thousand myself. Can honestly report zero cases of animal cruelty yet. PETA don't half spout some bollocks for the gullible to feed on.
Just wait till they drive through Killmahog...
Sheep farmers spout more bollocks, as usual. Sheep have been selectively bred to grow more wool than is healthy. So yes, the whole sheep farming industry is the most cruel thing you can do.
Sheep shearers are paid for the amount of wool they produce. They are going to try to do the job as quickly as possible, even if the sheep are injured during this.
Meet the greatest threat to our countryside: sheep https://www.spectator.co.uk/2013/06/meet-the-greatest-threat-to-our-countryside-sheep/
Sheep farmers spout more bollocks, as usual. Sheep have been selectively bred to grow more wool than is healthy. So yes, the whole sheep farming industry is the most cruel thing you can do.
Sheep shearers are paid for the amount of wool they produce. They are going to try to do the job as quickly as possible, even if the sheep are injured during this.
Meet the greatest threat to our countryside: sheep https://www.spectator.co.uk/2013/06/meet-the-greatest-threat-to-our-countryside-sheep/
Do you have any experience or first hand knowledge of sheep farming or are you just regurgitating stuff you have read? My village is surrounded by sheep farms and the sheep farmers are well known to be decent people. I often find that people that make comments like above turn out to be people that live in cities and don’t have the slightest idea about farming or the countryside.
Also that article is about sheep on the fells and hills but the majority of sheep farms are not hill farms. The usual suspects for getting rid of sheep in the hills is The National Trust and The Woodland Trust, two organisations of very dubious morals when it comes to getting their own way.
Try looking in the mirror if you want to see an example of the species representing the greatest threat to our countryside. And spare me your propaganda. You obviously have no idea about anything to do with farming. Feel free to come and visit and try and find something cruel about sheep farming. Talk about cruelty in intensive pig farming and poultry if you like. But sheep farming is easily the least cruel livestock industry on the planet. By a country mile.
And a shearer is paid per sheep, and not in any way by the amount of wool. He gets the same whether the fleece weighs 50 grams or 2 kilos. It also costs more to shear a sheep than the value of the wool. Hence selective breeding these days is aimed at producing sheep that shed their wool so do not need shearing at all.
We have deciduous sheep? Awesome.
PETA don’t half spout some bollocks
TBH, that's the takeaway from that post.
Malvern Rider, I think I love you
To quote John Shuttleworth:
"She lives in Hope, but she used to live in Barnsley..."
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Sheep farmers spout more bollocks, as usual
Meet the greatest threat to our countryside: sheep
There’s a picture of her on page 1
It looks like the hunter made a fair fist of the job...