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Blogger’s Note: Marx discusses how Industrialised Farming mass produced animals to create cheap meat amongst the workers. Prior to this, only the rich could afford – or were permitted – to consume meat. Meat eating was rare amongst the masses – which existed on various types of grain and fruit. As a result, animals are fed-through a hideous machine-led system which treats them as temporarily living dead-bodies – which are treated terribly due to the fact that the Judeo-Christianity teaches that animals possess “no souls” (the reason why Jews kill animals in their temples in the most cruellest of ways). Of course, no person or animal has a “soul” in the Christian sense, but we do possess a “psyche” in the Greek sense (the “breath of life”) – as in a bio-chemical process which gives rise to a conscious life. This is the special arrangement of matter as defined by USSR scientists. Throughout most of Western academia, the Greek “psyche” is mis-termed as the Christian “Soul” – as the early Christians first used the Greek term “psyche” before superimposing the Germanic term “Soul” over it when discussing spirit as opposed to matter, etc. Today, the two terms are deliberately conflated even when discussing Plato, Socrates, and Plotinus, even though none of these thinkers knew of – or even supported – theistic dogma and bigotry. I hope this mother-sheep and her lambs wil be spared the horror of the slaughter factory. ACW (22.4.2026)

Sheep gives birth to five lambs at Swinton Estate in Masham

The Northern Echo

By Anna Barnes – 21st April 2026

A North Yorkshire estate has been left astonished after a sheep gave birth to five lambs at once in what is believed to be a “one in a million” occurrence.

Six-year-old Quincy gave birth to five healthy lambs on Saturday (April 18), on the Swinton Estate near Masham.

Landowner Mark Cunliffe-Lister said he has “never seen anything like it before” after more than 30 years of lambing experience.

Mark, who looks after a flock of 20 sheep, said he was expecting a routine delivery before he quickly realised something unusual was happening.

He said: “Normally we might have the odd triplets, but generally it’s twins or singles. I was keeping an eye on her and thought she had two, which was fine.

“Then there was a third, and I went back in and came out again and found four. I was thinking, gosh, I’ve never seen that happen.

“Then suddenly she had a fifth one. We really weren’t expecting that to happen at all.

“I’ve worked in lambing when I was younger and seen triplets, but this is the most I’ve ever seen.”

Mark said that despite the “one in a million event”, all five lambs were born safely.

However, because a ewe would struggle to feed five lambs, three of the newborns were taken to a local farmer where they could be fed, while the other two remaining lambs stayed with the mother.

While multiple births are not uncommon in sheep, four sheep are considered to be a rare occurrence, and quintuplets are considered exceptionally rare with a “one in a million” chance, according to farmers.

The landowner said: “Thankfully all of them are doing really well.

“The ewe is back out with the others, and the lambs are healthy, which is the good news.

“They’re all growing as they should and are now happily grazing in the field.”