Wm.sonJan 11

#Rams #RainbowWool #Wool #BaRamEwe

One out of 12 rams (male sheep) is uninterested in females and prefers the company of males. They are deemed “non-procreative” (worthless to a farmer) and sent to slaughter. So this German farmer, Michael Stücke, rescues the gay rams and forms the company Rainbow Wool, selling wool from the gay sheep. Collaboration between Rainbow Wool and Grindr resulted in a fashion show called I Wool Survive. It featured 36 unique looks by designer Michael Schmidt, made entirely from the wool of the gay sheep, and celebrating queer identity through knitted and crocheted archetypes like Fireman, Sailor, Jock, Daddy and more. Proceeds from sales went to LGBTQA charitable organizations.
In a culture of Stephen Miller and Peter Thiel, be a Michael Stücke or a Michael Schmidt. Make art, make beautiful things, make people laugh, promote inclusivity, promote fabulousness- and find a way to accept whatever you consider “useless sheep.” Maybe instead of killing them, help them become Rainbow Wool. RESIST. And do it in style, if you can.

https://rainbow-wool.com/

Rainbow Wool

Rainbow Wool is the first fashion made from the wool of gay sheep to support queer projects across the globe. #🌈🐏

Rainbow Wool Shop
Show threadwebhatJan 11
@Sfwmson as someone who is vegan, I don't support the use of wool. And also, I think it's wonderful that these gay sheep were rescued from slaughter. Let's hope their lives are good
Show threadWm.sonJan 12

@webhat

May I ask why wool, which must come off the animal, I think, would be unusable to you?

Genuinely curious, I understand the meat part.

Show threadBrianJan 12
@Sfwmson @webhat they can't consent to any part of their body being used. They are a being which deserves respect, not to be used for human desires. If your hair isn't enough, try asking a fellow human adult if you can use their hair when they don't have a use for it anymore. It's their wool and they've been selectively bred to produce more of it to be more profitable to humans. Stop objectifying other beings.
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 18

am sorry, but this is… illogical.

sheep need to be sheared. they are domesticated and need humans to survive. if you don’t shear them, they could die of infections, or even suffocated under the weight of their own wool.

it never ceases to amaze me how many folks do not seem to know anything about farming.

plus, wool cloth is way better for the environment than the petroleum, oil-based polyesters that replaced it.

you can’t fast fashion wool.

@Brian @Sfwmson @webhat

Show threadwebhatJan 18

@blogdiva obviously, sheep need to be sheared. And rescued sheep, like these above would need to be sheared too. Exactly for the reasons you state

And it honestly ceases to amaze me that people think that modern industrial farming is anything like the pretty pictures of farms with sheep running happy and free in pastures. To be sheared sheep are fed through gates to shearers who don't take care of the skin or hair, they have a quota that they need to meet and if a sheep gets hurt they have a paintbrush to tar them with a disinfectant, or a dunked in a disinfectant bath. Sheep get hurt in the process, some badly. Some die during shearing, because shears cut into the animal, which is frowned upon by the farmer. Some drown in the sheep dip. Others die due to infections they develop during the process, which is just spillage

Industrial farming is a practice that leads to a lot of ecological damage, it has very little to do with the farming that most people think they know

If we were to do with dogs and cats, what we do to some of our domesticated farm animals, we would probably be sent to prison

cc: @Brian @Sfwmson

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 18

INDUSTRIAL.

when Europeans invaded the Américas and went on to try to exterminate one line of my ancestors so they could end up enslaving and importing my other line of ancestors; they did so by calling us, our lands, our flora & fauna as savage, wild, untamed.

BUT TAINOS PRACTICED PERMACULTURE BEFORE A WHITE MAN COLUMBUSED IT. all of the Américas were conucos of one form or other; including alpaca & vicuña wool farming.

DECOLONIZE your concept of farming.

1/2

@webhat @Brian @Sfwmson

Show threadwebhat
@blogdiva @Brian @Sfwmson I have decolonized it, that why I went vegan
Jan 18 at 7:28pmWeb
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 18

some Nazis practiced veganism. Janseism is one of the ideologies behind the rise of fascism in India. there’s a big contingency of vegans in the fascist MAHA/MAGA movement; inspired by 19th century eugenics. then there’s the very real oxymoron of vegan capitalism.

no. veganism doesn’t decolonize you or your food.

if you cannot imagine a world without private equity owned factory farming of veggie patties; then you need to rethink the culture part of agriculture.

@webhat @Brian @Sfwmson

Show threadBrianJan 18
@blogdiva @webhat @Sfwmson first sentence proves you don't know what veganism is yet are still trying to make a point with it (I think?). You can't be a vegan nazi, it makes no sense if we take veganism to be respecting the rights of non-human animals. Applying basic consistency would show there's something faulty going on. You can't discriminate against one minority and uphold another, that is inconsistent and undoes your supposed trying in the second case, thereby discriminating against them, too. This is seen in parallels between veganism and anti-racism and feminism (And…just basic logical thinking.).
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 18

FWIW: when a contingency of MAHA fascists call themselves vegans, pay attention. why would they do so?

the point is, when you say plants or animals can't consent, you are expressing a worldview that alienates Humanity from nature.

eating isn't a moral dilemma.

capitalism, colonialism, ecocide are moral dilemmas.

we don’t need capitalism, colonialism, ecocide to survive. we need to destroy them to save us all.

don't make eating the problem when it’s greed.

@Brian @webhat @Sfwmson

Show threadBrianJan 18
@blogdiva I think you're seeing ghost posts because your replies aren't making much sense to me. But to reply, because they want to? How am I supposed to know? Lots of reasons could be at play. I don't think it matters what someone calls themselves in such a case. I could call myself a Trump supporter. So? What about it? Anyone can call themselves whatever, that doesn't suddenly change the definition of words. Plants can't consent, though. Animals can consent in a broad sense, but a passed out human can't. A lion could maybe consent to things with other people who speak their language, but they can't give consent to humans. What people eat is a moral dilemma, we live in a society, everything a human does has externalities, you're not living in a vacuum.
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 18

a cooperative point of view of Life wouldn’t see eating as an existential crisis; but as part of our continuum within Nature. and yes, farming is part of nature because humans are part of nature. so we should be doing it not against nature.

all forests are gardened; even the Amazons. the Great Plains were gardened and to this day historians are reluctant to admit that the genocide of Native Americans and buffalo ecocide, caused the Dust Bowl once industrial farming hurt the land.

@Brian