Lamb, Eaten

A lot of lambs are slaughtered because a lot of people want to eat lamb. Lambs for eating are killed early in life, and so they do not experience a full life.

Humans’ eating of lamb, as well as occurring for ‘ordinary reasons’, also happens from being a custom in some religions. An association exists between festivity and eating lamb.

It is not only humans who eat lamb. We know that the dog is a predator of sheep, that dogs out of control can cause sheep stress, harm or even death. But there is another dimension in relation to dogs and sheep. This is that among food which providers offer for dogs is lamb - delivered in various configurations.

Lambs to be eaten do not have much of life, or much of a life. They are being deprived of a large portion of life because of humans’ and dogs’ desire to eat them.

In relation to lambs, Eastertide is a time of contrast and somewhat grim irony. Traditionally, lamb is eaten then. Out in fields, meanwhile, are many lambs, enjoying their young lives (and having feeding and care from their mothers whom they are with).

Can it possibly be right that lots of lambs should lose life, and so soon in the life cycle, for purpose to be food?

It is a gladsome thing that some lambs do have a full life, in that they are not slaughtered in infancy. It is additionally gladsome if, as well as not having been slaughtered in infancy, lambs have not been made to suffer in other ways during their infancy. 

Lambs who are not slaughtered when young, are: those lambs which humans keep to give the lambs adulthood and entirety; those lambs which are kept to grow up to be adult sheep and to breed lambs; those lambs which humans keep to increase the number of sheep which they have. 

Sadly, for a quantity of lambs, they neither get to experience the full span of life, nor do they have much good or joyous existence as lambs.