Do vegans wear wool? It's an animal product, but the animal is not killed to obtain it.?

No, they do not. Wool is on the animal to keep them warm.

Remember, vegans object to the exploitation of animals for human benefit/comfort (some vegans do accept life-and-death uses of animals). While it doesn't kill the chicken to lay an egg, the chicken doesn't make the egg for other animals to eat, so vegans don't eat it. Wool is the same thing.

A person who is a total or strict vegetarian (the terms people use here vary somewhat) will follow a diet that is 100% plant-based (a vegan diet) but is not a full vegan and will use animal products in other situations (clothes, for example).

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Vegans don't wear anything derived from animals and some vegetarians too, like me. In some (or many) cases, yes animals are killed for wool or do suffer animal abuse/cruelty. Check these sites for more detailed information:

http://vegforlife.org/wears_fabric.htm#wool

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulesing

No wool is an animal product so vegans do not use it.

You don't know the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan, do you? A vegetarian will eat/ use anything an animal wasn't killed for, but a vegan won't use anything from an animal what-so-ever.

Yes. Many vegans wear wool. Especially in the colder climates.

No, vegans are against the exploitation of any animal. The way wool is obtained is certainly exploitation. And, I'm assuming you'd be surprised how many sheep actually die in the process of "harvesting" wool.

NO! No wool, leather, or silk. The only reason why some sheep need to be sheared to keep from overheating is because they have been cross bred to produce more wool. Many breeds naturally shed their coats.

Do a search for "sheep shearing cruelty" "or "mulesing" and I bet you will never wear cashmere again.

I'm probably the only person who is going to answer you, who is an actual farmer. I raise sheep and goats. There are only 11 sheep currently in my herd (but over 100 goats).

No, vegans do not wear wool, nor eat honey. To them it's enslavement, and harming of the animal, even if something is produced in abundance, and can be harvested safely from the animal.

Ranches where hundreds, even thousands of sheep are shorn must so so very, very fast. It is hard on the sheep. Not so many die though, as some on here would have you believe.

Sheep can be cut deeply by the electric shears. Especially at the back of the front legs, and the front of the back legs where they join the body. The sheep have extra skin, just as you do between your thumb and index finger which is easily cut into. Male sheep sometimes end up with horrible wounds, when their penis or testicles are accidentally run over by the shears. Professional sheep shearers rarely make those kind of mistakes.

A professional sheep shearer can shear a sheep in two minutes. It is extremely fast. By the way, the sheep is on it's hind end (butt) most of the time, with it's body resting against the shearers legs. It is not the violent act some would have you believe.

I on the other hand am extremely slow at it. I take nearly an hour just to shear a single ewe. I'm wrestling with an animal which weights as much as I do. So which would the sheep like better...to have someone take careful measures and wrestle with them for nearly an hour, or a quick two minutes and have the job done? (The sheep want the fast job, trust me)

If a domestic wool breed of sheep is not shorn, it will die. The wool continues to grow year after year. Since sheep do not shed their wool, they can be shorn whenever the farmer desires, not in the dead of winter as some who answered you would have you believe.

Sheep are generally shorn in the early spring, just before lambing time. This way the ewes do not overheat during lambing, because of all that thick wool. The lambs are also able to then find the ewe's udder. The wool can be so thick on unshorn sheep the lamb will be unable to find the udder and will starve to death.

In the part of Idaho where I lived, where thousands of sheep are raised, the ewes are put in giant long barns after shearing. The weather is still too cold to allow newly shorn ewes outside, or allow ewe's to lamb outside. During lambing time, there are multiple Basque herders with the sheep 24/7, making sure that no lambs are lost. They work in shifts, and stay in bunkhouses near the barns. It would be rather stupid of ranchers to allow their newly shorn sheep to freeze to death, wouldn't it? A rancher that did that wouldn't stay in business very long.

In other parts of the world (like Australia), they are simply not dealing with spring snow blizzards. The newly shorn sheep do just fine.

Indeed, right after shearing the sheep usually act fairly silly, running, jumping, springing up into the air. They are able to move in ways the wool prevented. Newly shorn sheep are usually as frisky as lambs.

Having the wool shorn also means the sheep can scratch an itch really well for the first time in months. It also give ranchers a chance to treat the sheep for any biting insect, like sheep keds (think giant fleas).

A sheep's most valuable wool crop is it's lamb crop. The very first wool ever shorn from the sheep will be the most valuable it produces it's entire life.

After that, sheep produce the same wool crop every year, even into very advanced old age. Sheep are not culled because they get old and stop producing so much wool (because that doesn't happen). Sheep are culled out of the herd, and sent for slaughter when they start to loose their teeth. They become known as "broken mouths" then. Then they cannot feed themselves, nor graze enough to produce milk for lambs. Same term (broken mouths) also applies to cattle.

My oldest sheep just died this past winter. She was in her 20's. An extremely advanced age for a sheep. Normal lifespan of a sheep or goat is 10-15 years.

Remember, sheep made a pact with humans (willing or not). Humans would protect the sheep, take them to food, shelter, salt, minerals, clean water, but most of all, protect them from predators. In return, we take meat, and wool from the sheep. Because of this, domestic sheep number in the millions.

Wild sheep number in the thousands.

Domestic sheep cannot shed their wool. They would die without humans to care for them.

They are working on drugs (injections) to give to sheep, which will make all of it's wool peal off at skin level after just a couple of days. Then the wool is longer (which makes it more valuable) and no electric clippers need ever touch sheep again.

Personally I'm against these drugs.

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

1. Sheep are sheared to obtain wool. This is not done in a nice, calm manner, but rather done quite quickly. Many sheep are cut deeply by the shearing instruments. Not only does this hurt them, but the wound typically becomes infected and the sheep dies.

2. A sheep's coat is thickest in the winter to protect it from the cold. For this reason, the sheep is sheared during the winter because the wool is the thickest during this time. Because the sheep's main source of warmth has just been taken from it during the coldest part of the year, many sheep die from the cold.

3. Sheep that die from either infection or cold, or just stop producing as much wool, are still eaten.

4. Even if 1, 2, and 3 didn't occur (but they do, and that's terrible), it's still not our right to take it away from the sheep. Sheep grow their wool for a reason. It's not the same as us growing out our hair and just having it cut. The wool serves a function to the sheep. Just because we CAN take it doesn't mean it's RIGHT that we do. Imagine if you had a roommate that started taking your clothes. They wouldn't be harming you, but they would be taking something of yours without asking. Is that fair? They're your clothes, your roommate shouldn't steal them even if your friend doesn't cause you harm.