Do you think animals get hurt when we shear their coats of hair?
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“If you shave an animal’s fur and use it, is that considered animal cruelty?”
That depends on the context.
In the case of sheep, being shorh is why they live. Only a tiny proportion of the sheep alive today would have been born if they were not in a productive relationship with human economic systems.
Working for human beings works out well for the sheep because the humans largely protect the flock from predators. Certainly, the sheep end up dead once their teeth start deteriorating so that they cannot eat efficiently but that’s little different to dying for the same reason in the wild except that the killing may be more humane. Meanwhile, though, the average life expectancy of the sheep is far higher than in the wild.
For the sheep the relationship is not all that different to the average human being who must spend much of their life working for another’s benefit while being recompensed the minimum their employer can get away with.
Most human beings seem to think that far better than trying to survive in the wild and we might surmise that sheep might make the same choice if they could.
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