How is this uplifting news? They're carting a lamb around like a human baby until he's a year old and they decide whether to shoot or slice him to death.

“There is a growing population of people in our community who have met this particular lamb,” said Purinton-Brown. Meaning, would it be hard to explain [to them] what happened to Nugget, after he lived to the size at which lambs become meat? No, not that. “I would not shy away from that conversation. We have that conversation all the time.”

Uhh.

At North Star, the Websters have a whole pen in the barn designed for the bottle-fed lambs, who have each other for company and artificial milk from a bottle or a bucket. It’s not cheap to feed these forlorn creatures – he said a $42 bag of formula is needed for each of them – but the point is to help them survive until they either become breeding stock or reach the age to be slaughtered (no more than a year).

They kill the boys when they're no more than a year old.. Sheep's natural lifespans are 10-12 years. Sick that they pretend these animals are family. If someone snuggled their puppy in their bed and then shot it when it was 1-2 years old, we'd think they were horrific psychopaths. But these people do this on the regular and people are like nah, all good.

This subreddit is so questionable sometimes.

edit: I care zero about downvotes, but for those who feel compelled to, I'd love to hear your reasoning.