5 Lies You’ve Been Told About Lambs

LIE 1: Australian lambs are well cared for.The Australian sheep and lamb industry slaughters more than 30 million animals each year, but an additional 10 to 15 million lambs die – shivering and hungry – in icy winter fields.
Many sheep on farms are forcibly impregnated so that they give birth during the winter months and their babies can be weaned in the spring when the fields are the most fertile. Meanwhile, farmers have also selectively bred sheep over time in order to increa