It doesn't make her rich, but she can live like that

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A two week old lamb is bottle fed

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Guido Kirchner / dpa

"Yes, yes," she says, "of course I slaughter them myself. I've helped them into life, and I'm ending their lives."

You and Kerstin Riek stand in front of 120 young sheep in the barn, the animals bleat occasionally and do not know that they are among those who will be slaughtered next.

You see a dark-clad figure that you have seen before and from whom good things usually come.

They do not know that this figure also appreciates lambs as roasts.

That she, the shepherdess, speaks about her future.

The modern city dweller, no, not only the city dweller has a strange relationship with sheep.

He loves and celebrates her, like Shaun, the cartoon sheep who is smarter than his farmer.

He knows them as cuddly toys, he counts them when he cannot sleep, he counts himself among them if he is pious to the Bible: "The Lord is my shepherd".

He thinks: Oh, sweet lamb!

And thinks: Ah, delicious lamb!

He doesn't think that something takes place in between and that it has to do with him.

D rather not.

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