...nursery rhymes such as Baa, Baa, Black Sheep have gone woke – with the words changed to reflect a kinder attitude towards animals.
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, which parents and teachers sing to children, traditionally starts ‘Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?’
But in a new version the sheep explains it’s ‘not cool’ to steal wool and refuses to provide any for the ‘pastor’, dame or little boy who lives down the lane.
*gasps!*
Meanwhile, the line in Little Miss Muffet which tells of a girl being ‘frightened away’ by a spider has been changed to say it ‘brightened Miss Muffet’s day!’
That'll go down well in DownUnderLand!
Miss Muffet has also become vegan – instead of eating ‘curds and whey’, she is ‘watching the bluebirds play’.
Ready the flaming pitchforks, Reader, we march on the nurseries implimenting these ...
Oh, wait.
The changes to the rhymes have been made by animal rights campaigners Peta who say the traditional versions promote unfair and outdated attitudes. The rewritten rhymes, which are featured on the Peta website, are part of a trend of woke children’s literature, which includes gender-swap fairytales.
It's a publicity grab by Peta. I bet no-one's stupid enough to read these to toddlers.
I'm only surprised it's not become a 'differently hued' sheep by now
ReplyDeleteIf it wasn't for 'stealing wool', there wouldn't be any sheep, as I'm fairly sure PETA isn't keen on mutton either.
ReplyDeleteI wonder who peta think will feed the sheep if it doesn't give up its wool? It'll probably go in the pot.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't steal the sheep's wool it falls off, they moult in the summer. Of course you wouldn't expect the idiots at PETA to actually know anything at all about farming.
ReplyDeleteThis is by no means the first Baa Baa Black Sheep row.
ReplyDeleteFor further details, read Stick It Up Your Punter!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stick-Up-Your-Punter-Newspaper/dp/0671017829/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AQBCS9Y09AXL&keywords=chris+horrie&qid=1652534489&s=books&sprefix=chris+horrie%2Cstripbooks%2C52&sr=1-1
Robert
"If you don't steal the sheep's wool it falls off, they moult in the summer. Of course you wouldn't expect the idiots at PETA to actually know anything at all about farming."
ReplyDeleteWhile there are some breeds of sheep that naturally shed their wool, if you don't shear most breeds (including all the breeds used for commercial meat production) their wool just gets longer and longer until they look like a small cloud. See the case of the sheep in New Zealand that managed to escape and lived wild for 3 years, avoiding being shorn:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-tuesday-edition-1.6431579/shrekapo-the-sheep-gets-a-very-public-haircut-after-3-years-on-the-lam-1.6432973
Thus not shearing a sheep is in fact cruel, they would eventually be hardly able to move. Not only that sheep with long fleeces are much more likely to get fly strike, which is where flies lay eggs in the wool and the resulting maggots burrow into the sheep's flesh. Not a pretty sight, and incredibly painful for the sheep.
https://www.westpointfarmvets.co.uk/flystrike-treatment-prevention/
Note regular shearing is one of the recommended prevention actions.
When the woke pendulum swings:
ReplyDeleteBaa, baa, black bloke,
Have you any skunk?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags o’dat junk.
One for a tenner,
Two for a score,
And one to stab a black boy
Whose mudder is a whore.
"PETA"
ReplyDeleteAs a reminder, or introdution for some, that acronym should be read as "people eat(ing) tasty animals."
"I'm only surprised it's not become a 'differently hued' sheep by now"
ReplyDeleteOvine of colour, bigot!
"If it wasn't for 'stealing wool', there wouldn't be any sheep, as I'm fairly sure PETA isn't keen on mutton either."
Since they don't love animals, but rather hate people, they'd be fine with that...
"Of course you wouldn't expect the idiots at PETA to actually know anything at all about farming."
It's never about animal welfare when PETA opine, is it?
"For further details, read Stick It Up Your Punter!"
Oh, yes!
"Thus not shearing a sheep is in fact cruel, they would eventually be hardly able to move."
But this is PETA and animal welfare is not - and probably never has been - what motivates them.
"When the woke pendulum swings:"
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