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Sheep of Fools: A BLAB! Storybook

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Sheep of Fools is such an important topic, thank goodness someone is writing on this subject to educate the general public of the abuses animals raised for their meat and their skin endure. Society has become numb to feeling compassion for beings other than human, especially en mass. The lonely lamb wandering the fields searching for it's mother kindles a soft spot in many a person's heart. But raise that lamb in a factory farm, lined up with hundreds of other sheep, their fate to end up on our plates as lamb chops, and all we can do is salivate. We have become a nation in which "ignorance is bliss" defines our reaction to the pain and suffering we inflict daily on animals. Sue Coe, Monte Beauchamp, and Judith Brodey, will hopefully open some eyes to the atrocities we excuse as satisfying our palates, and that one day soon, we will all realize that these animals are not put on this earth for human beings to exploit, rather they are sharing this world with us and the sooner we realize that, the sooner the violence can stop.

The definition of a great book surely includes the ones not just that you couldn't put down, but the ones that will change your lives forever.
Buy this book=- you'll never again think of buying a wool sweater.

Thank goodness for truth-tellers like Sue Coe. As in her earlier books, she sees past industry propaganda and tells the truth about how animals are abused out of the public's view. Such creative and gripping story telling - no, make that truth telling - are in short supply today. I love her images, even though they make me shudder and sometimes cry. If you never thought about where your wool or lamb chopes come from, this is a book that will expand your understanding and awaken your compassion. Thanks to all three authors for writing and illustrating this honest look at the sheep industry.

I too once wore wool and subsidized abuses to sheep (like eating lamb chops), until I had the opportunity to actually meet a ewe, and her baby, many years ago which changed all that.

I wish that a book like this had existed when I was growing up so that I could've had a head start on a cruelty free lifestyle.

This is a must read for every compassionate person out there!

Seldom does one pick up a book that they can't put down and then rush to order one for all their friends.

Such is the case with Sheep of Fools.

Sheep are fantastic wondrous animals and it is too bad that we (before this book) lacked the opportunity to question whether or not we should be eating/wearing them.

I know that I will never again want to cause them harm and will proudly go forth in my fleece (cotton!) sweaters and my tofu has never tated so good.

Sue Coe is an amazing artist and her drawings and paintings of the cruelty that humans impose on other animals is very frightening and upsetting. The book is designed in a format similar to a child's picture book but the images between the covers are disturbing and consciousness raising. Some of the pictures would certainly upset a child since they certainly upset adults. Sheep are the primary victims of man's cruelty in this book. The images are accompanied with text by Judith Brody and tell a story of how mankind moved from a life of connection to sheep primarily for their wool to a factory farm where slaughter and other cruelties are imposed on the poor animals in routine fashion. The images of pregnant sheep being slit open so that the fetus can be extracted, killed, and skinned for Persian lamb coats is horrifying. The book raises consciousness about how we kill other mammals and the manner in which we kill those animals so that the general public does not know about the cruelty we impose on those who share the earth with us.