Allowing livestock to graze under renewable developments gives farmers a separate income stream, but solar developers in Australia have been slow to catch on.
    • growsomethinggood ()@reddthat.com
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      3 months ago

      I’m all for the humane treatment of animals, but domestic sheep need to be sheared or they end up like Baarack here. Meanwhile, wool is a sustainable textile source, unlike synthetic fibers.

      If we want domestic sheep to live good lives, it requires humans embracing sustainable practices quickly to address the climate crisis.

            • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Sheep genocide! Woohoo!

              Even if we stop, what do we do with the ones we still have? Sanctuaries for millions of animals are far too expensive.

              How about we keep shearing them and let them graze under our solar?

              • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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                3 months ago

                You can’t, and I’m not recommending, get rid of sheep overnight. That’s a scenario you made up on your own.

                If you would castrate all domestic sheep today, that would be akin to what we do to cats and dogs. Slowly the population would dwindle.