"...so the poor unshorn sheep face the prospect of parasites breeding in their wool and then eating them alive."

Don't let the media get you all upset until you know the entire story, Herga Kitty. For example, is actually meant by "clamp down"? It could be something as simple as weeding out men with criminal records or men who are using sheep-shearing as a way to escape from the law or financial responsibility.

(Can you really picture the entire wool production going down the tubes for want of shearers? Can you picture the farmers putting up with that?)

Beware of people (either newspeople, Internet posters or personal acquaintances) who get a sick feeling of power by getting other people upset.