As we all know, sheep only exist to save our lives. At least, if you believe the livestock farmers. Wool is no longer profitable, and apparently sheep meat is no longer profitable either, so ecological livestock farming is the only option. And these sheep are all loved immensely, given names, bottle-fed, and then do their important work on dikes and save our lives. Let’s leave it at that.
- Why are the dikes breaking in the states with the most sheep (Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg)? No sheep on the dikes? Too few sheep? Maybe too many? Or is it simply completely irrelevant whether there were ever sheep on the dikes when such floods break over the country in the future?
- Will the sheep that secure the dikes be rescued from the flood that has been looming for weeks, or will they be left to drown?
- If, as is often the case in southern Germany and is expected to happen more frequently in the north in the future, the dikes break and are no longer available, what will happen to the hundreds of thousands of sheep that can no longer do their important work of protecting the dikes because there are no dikes? Will there be a big barbecue for the THW and fire service? Will the discounters have special offers at the meat counter? Or will they become avalanche sheep that will protect us all from snow and scree in the mountains?
I’m not asking for a friend, but for myself as a layperson. I wonder when the animal abusers will finally run out of excuses….