SHEEP AND SHEARING
Sir, —I suppose that if some persons are money mad no ordinary considerations weigh with them; but the present inhuman practice of. shearing sheep before the last and usually the bleakest spell of winter, simply to get the highest prices on the London market, seems merely to be unrestrained gluttony. How can either ewes or lambs be healthy if the ewes are subjected to such chilling at a time of such a call on their strength? An elderly descendant of one early Canterbury family gave an interviewer (with complete complacence) the following revolting account of the treatment of sheep before the days of frozen mutton:—“When the flock needed renewing the old sheep were driven over a high cliff.’’ Comment on this is superfluous, but do the present Canterbury farmers’ methods differ much from this in essence? Unnecessary suffering is inflicted in each case.— Yours, etc., THE MILLS OF GOD GRIND SLOWLY, BUT— July 16, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27404, 17 July 1954, Page 3
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