[identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com 2010-01-19 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
That's the wool on sheep grown for their meat though (or rather for the meat of their lambs). If you are considering a future where we eat much less meat, it's not inconceivable that we would be either raising wool breeds but eating them anyway, or raising old-fashioned breeds that do both. I am not an expert in sheep husbandry though; I've got to the end of my thinking on this. So I could just be wrong.