http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=559041&in_page_id=1770
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For years, enthusiasts have flocked to see a county's traditional
sheepshearing competition.
They are enthralled by the skill and dexterity of operators in
removing fleeces in as little as two minutes.
But now the event has been scrapped ... because anti-cruelty activists
claim the ewes and rams could be hurt by the electric clippers that
are used.
One protester declared: "Sheep have rights too."
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Ye gods.
