That video is of salt water crocodiles. They’re a fair bit more aggressive than Alligators.

I don’t for a second believe that religion was required for people to have good morals. It was required for control.

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Nah we have white eggs here too.

Obvious bait.

Even citing certain statistics is likely to earn a ban. It isn’t hard to imagine what, given that they are notoriously thrown around by actual racists.

Pretty damn sure you would argue that quoting certain statistics would be racist.

Very US defaultism of you.

Are these best shearers not still commoditizing the products of the body of another thinking being?

What does that have to do with the question of whether or not the process of shearing is violent?

How do we know your claims of non-violent sheering are true?

How do you know PETAs claims are true? (“As reported by PETA, one eyewitness to the process said”)

I’ve been an eyewitness to the process, and I’m not idealogically biased the way PETA extremists are known to be.

Where is the sheep in this shed, now?

What? This sentence just doesn’t make sense. The sheep don’t live in the shed.

The females of the breeds I have observed don’t have horns, and their tails are docked to prevent excrutiatingly painful death by flystrike.

The alternative to wool production in Australia is cotton, which is even more environmentally destructive than sheep are, mostly due to the sheer amount of water required for cotton production. People need clothes so these industries aren’t going away.

Shearers have an interest in not causing unecessary harm to sheep, because it is counter productive. That’s my experience.

The rest of your argument is moralising which I am uninterested in.

Have you seen how wool is actually collected?

Yes, in a shearing shed and not on youtube.

It is not violent when done correctly, and the best shearers in the industry who can smoothly and quickly sheer a sheep without injury are highly sought after.