Sheep & Goats on Factory Farms

Young sheep, called "lambs," are usually killed for meat before they are one year old. These helpless little animals are taken away from their mothers and sold at stockyards and other markets. Being separated from their mothers is very frightening for the tiny lambs.

Today's sheep grow much more wool than they ever would have in the wild. All this wool, is usually sheared by people who want to use it to make clothing and other products. Shearing is very scary for the sheep who are often cut and injured when this is done.

When older sheep stop growing as much nice wool as they did when they were younger, they are usually killed for meat.

Millions of goats are raised for meat on farms in the United States and 500,000 more are raised for milk. Many are raised on large farms that are beginning to look a lot like factory farms.

The lives of many goats are taken using a kind of killing called "Halaal slaughter." Goats cannot be stunned at slaughterhouses that do this kind of killing, and so they often suffer horribly when they die at these places.

Some goats are also used as living "lawnmowers" and are often let loose in dangerous places where they do not have protection from wild animals, bad weather or other things that could hurt or kill them.