A lot of people think sheep were born to be sheared, but that is not the case. Sheep were originally domesticated for milk. They were raised in the wild and eventually found their way to a human farmer, but that wasn’t always the case. Sheep were used to being left in the field and let to graze. Eventually, they were sheared, but a small percentage of the population never got the chance. Sheep needed to be sheared in order to survive.
The first time I heard about the process of using shears to cut sheep, I thought they were really cool and I wanted to try it. Eventually I heard about the “shearing machine” that was developed in the 1800s. The machine consisted of two large pliers with a metal rod at the other end that was pushed up and down. The machine was designed to cut sheep into parts, but the sheep that was being sheared also had to be sheared.
Sheep were once common in the Middle East, but because of the rising popularity of livestock farming, the sheep industry had its own problems. During the Middle Ages the demand was so great for sheep that the people of the Middle East were forced to slaughter and export their sheep.
This is the story of how they survived. In the Middle Ages, sheep were a luxury that a wealthy person could afford to purchase. But these wealthy people did not want to give up their beloved sheep, and so they had their lambs sheared, along with their entire herds of sheep. Unfortunately, because they were sheared, they could not eat their sheep.
And so they were forced to export them and starve. What does that tell you about how our economy works? (Okay, we know the average American does not like to think that a wealthy person could starve to death.
As the economist Adam Smith observed, the poor don’t have the luxury of being able to eat their own food. So they must export their food to be able to eat. What a great way to keep the poor poor. And I’m all for it.
The economy of sheep has not changed much since Smith wrote his book on it, and the reason that sheep are so popular today is so they can sell their wool. The problem is that it’s very easy to export wool, but wool in general can be very hard to find. So sheep farmers must rely on other humans to give them their wool. This is how sheep farmers survive, as they are forced to export their product and starve.
And all of the sheep owners are desperate to sell their wool, as it’s becoming more and more difficult to find it in the wild.
And it’s not just sheep farmers who are going hungry, but anyone who sells their wool at a lower price. In the West, sheep are slaughtered for their meat from a few months before they’re born. In the East, sheep are killed years after they’ve been born. The problem is that once someone kills a sheep, he can’t sell it for food. So he can only sell the wool, which is very hard to find.
Once a sheep is sheared, the whole herd is now gone, and that’s when the shearer becomes a target. And once the shearer is a target, he cant sell his wool, which is very hard to find. So he can only sell the wool, which is very hard to find.
