Vegan who stole lamb from farmer almost killed it in attempt to hand-rear

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1. “Three weeks later, he received information that his lamb had been taken by Murguia. When the lamb was recovered, it weighted just 5.8kg, while its twin brother, hand reared by the Ludwell family, weighted 9.95kg. A vet concluded the lamb had been given inadequate nutrition.”

   Bring on the “Farmers are horrible people who don’t look after their animals” brigade.

2. Odd that this is news but the way animals are routinely treated day-in, day-out, horrendously for the avoidance of doubt – only makes it to the papers on the odd occasion. 

   Not a vegan myself, but this just feels like bait. 

3. I mean, we’ve only got her word she’s actually a vegan. Maybe she was just tried to get a jump on the Easter Sunday meal?

4. Puzzling inclusion of an alcohol rehabilitation order… pissed and stole a lamb?

5. The path to hell is paved with good intentions. I wont pretend that the farmer just raises sheep to frolic in fields though.

6. So are they going to do stories on each of the 245,000 sheep that were slaughtered last week, or is this one having a bad time more heartwrenching?

7. Funny how they’re trying to make the vegan look bad.

   “Instead of being killed it almost died” lol ok

   Still got better treatment than it would with the farmer. The farmer is just looking at the lamb as a product not a life.

8. people hate people who actually have convictions with their morals, so any mistake, idiot or something gone wrong has us frothing at the mouth to discredit them. the world of animal farming causes suffering on a level we cannot even begin to comprehend. if you think that’s justified or not is another conversation, but the incredible pain and suffering is just a fact. that makes us uncomfortable, so lets deflect by making those who want to do something about it the villains.

9. Almost!? Let the farmers show the vegan how it’s really done!

10. ‘Vegan who stole lamb from farmer almost killed it, before the farmer definitely killed it’

    This is a story?

11. Might not have been just a vegan but a crazy person. Because he stole property and then couldn’t properly look after the animal. He could have looked up Internet instructions or he could have given the lamb to an animal sanctuary. These are red-flags to me in regards to his mental abilities.

12. “Come on Dolly let’s get you back to the slaughterhouse”

13. This is more or less how The Deep got that dolphin killed 🤣

14. When I first read the headline, I thought hand rear meant this vegan fisted the animal

15. Someone remind me what the farmer was going to do with the lamb?

16. But leaving animals with livestock farmers who most of the time mistreat them and always kill them in the end (often as babies even) is completely normal in society.
    I don’t know if I took the wrong colour pill or something but to me it doesn’t make sense.

17. Not a great move by the activist, but it’s going to have what 18 months then get its throat cut anyway. Let’s not pretend farmers are animal lovers.

18. Malnorishing an animal is good intentions, whereas caring for, looking after, medicating if needs be, and giving a lamb a nice 1-2 years is bad intentions? Explain

19. Previously worked on a farm, large part of why I left was because of animal abuse.

    Supposedly one of the better ones in the UK.

    All inspections and visits are known well ahead of time, the industry is sugar coated.

    I even have video evidence of some things.

    Fair to say, it’s made me question eating meat.

20. Someone was going to satb it and eat its legs anyway, at least the vegan was trying to help, and before you say farmers look after their animals let’s remember they do it for profit only, they stick their hands in to them, wank them off, remove their babies, and send them to be killed.

21. I’d rather be almost killed than definitely killed tbh. If I’m ever reincarnated as a lamb, give me the incompetent vegan over the competent farmer every day.

    Edit: Should mention that I have also illegally rescued a baby lamb. Not before the farmer had mutilated him, sadly. His testicles and tail had been removed in a barbaric fashion, and without anesthetic.

    I took them immediately to a sanctuary. Seen by a veterinary professional ASAP. Raised and looked after by people who know what they’re doing, rather than by me who just wanted to save their life and knew fuck all about caring for them. Years on and that lamb is now a happy sheep part of a huge flock. They’ll live a long happy life, but guess what, the media would vilify me as much as this incompetent vegan had I been caught (and it was a slow enough news day). It matters not what we do, why we do it, or how we do it. We’re always made out to be the bad guys by the media.

22. Sheep by the way are so domesticated they don’t shed their wool. They need shearing.

    Otherwise it’ll just keep growing and growing and begin to present health problems or risk danger to them

    They are reliant on humans to periodically groom them

    Not sure what they were hoping to even achieve

23. A wise poacher once said “Better a sheep than a lamb.”

24. Wtf is this headline? Almost killed it?

    The farmer was definitely going to kill it if it stayed at the farm.

    The irony of this is that someone with no skills looking after animals actually increased its chances of a long life. Usually it would be killed as an infant.

25. If there’s ever been a cause that has damaged the vegan movement, it has been vegans themselves. Truely staggering

26. Good thing to, 5.8kg is going to make a shit lamb chop

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