article_snippet.sent: The disturbing clips showed Australian shearers kicking, stamping and mutilating the creatures before stitching up the creatures butchered wounds with a needle.
article_snippet.sent: The investigation posted on PETA's website states that this gruesome behaviour was observed in 19 shearing sheds across Australia. '
article_snippet.sent: Shearers are often paid by volume, not by the hour, which encourages fast, violent work and can lead to severe cuts on sheep's bodies,' it said. '
article_snippet.sent: Large swaths of skin were cut or ripped off the bodies of many sheep by Australian shearers.'
article_snippet.sent: The disturbing clips showed Australian shearers kicking, stamping and mutilating the creatures .
article_snippet.sent: Everyone keeps forgetting that there is a video that documents shearing leading to severe cuts on sheep's bodies,' she said. '
article_snippet.sent: Large swaths of many sheep's skin were cut or ripped off by the shears.
article_snippet.sent: Workers didn't give sheep any painkillers before using needles to sew up Workers flesh to try to close gaping, bloody wounds caused by shearing while sheep writhed and kicked out in pain.'