About the animals - Lambs and Sheep
Angelo was born in the truck when his mum was transported to be butchered in the USA.
Nana was rescued with her 2 lambs by activists from the Animal Equality Open Rescue Team from a farm in Catalonia, Spain.
Elisabeth ambassador and maybe one of the only survivors of live transport of sheep from the UK to the continent.
There are over 1 billion sheep worldwide. The greatest numbers are
farmed in Asia and Africa. Sheep are kept for wool, meat, lamb and mutton, and
for milk. (Source : Compassion in World Farming)
Welfare problems:
- mutilations (castration, tail docking, mulesing, ...)
- artificial reproduction (semen milking by electroejaculation and insemination)
- factory farming (in individual pens)
- transport
- auctions (this link shows you images of animal abuse in auctions in the USA)
- slaughter