Urge Australian Government to Stop Lamb Mutilations

In the Australian wool industry, farmers cut huge chunks of skin from lambs' backsides using instruments resembling gardening shears or attach painful, vice-like "clips" to their backsides until their skin dies and falls off.

This primitive process, called "mulesing", is a misguided attempt to control flystrike in sheep. It's abominably cruel – and it's not even effective. Recent studies have proved that sheep who are treated with insecticides and not mulesed show a lower prevalence of flystrike than those who are subjected to the mulesing mutilation.

In addition, prestigious retailers and fashion designers around the world – including Abercrombie & Fitch and H&M – have joined the movement to stop buying wool from lambs who have been mulesed.

However, despite overwhelming support for putting a stop to mulesing, the Australian wool industry continues to drag its feet when it comes to ending the mulesing mutilation. Rather than focusing its efforts on good animal husbandry and humane solutions such as bare-breech breeding, it allows millions of lambs to be partially flayed alive every year.

In addition, many sheep discarded by the Australian wool industry are crammed onto export ships to be sent to the Middle East. Sheep who survive the terrifying voyage often are dragged off trucks by their ears and legs, are tied up and beaten and have their throats slit while they are still conscious.

Please write to Australian Minister for Agriculture right now and ask him to ban mulesing mutilations. Demand that only effective, humane options be used instead, and urge him to put an end to the cruel live-export industry.

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the Hon.

David

Littleproud MP

Australian Government

the Hon.

David

Littleproud MP

Australian Government

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I was shocked to learn that Australian farmers continue to partially skin lambs alive, despite growing international pressure from retailers and consumers to ban mulesing and implement long-term, humane solutions.

There is overwhelming scientific evidence that mulesing is so cruel that it adversely affects lambs for months, while the practice of attaching vice-like "clips" also cause animals great pain. Viable, humane options are already in use by many Australian farmers, and recent studies have shown that sheep treated with insecticides have a lower incidence of flystrike than those subjected to painful mulesing.

Please help end needless suffering by calling for an end to the cruel mulesing mutilations of lambs. Please see that humane, effective options are used instead and bring an immediate end to the cruel live-export trade as well. Until these practices are permanently banned, I will refuse to buy Australian wool and will encourage clothing retailers, friends and family members to do the same.
Kind regards,

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Urge Australian Government to Stop Lamb Mutilations

In the Australian wool industry, farmers cut huge chunks of skin from lambs' backsides using instruments resembling gardening shears or attach painful, vice-like "clips" to their backsides until their skin dies and falls off.

Please write to Australian Minister for Agriculture right now and ask him to ban mulesing mutilations. Demand that only effective, humane options be used instead, and urge him to put an end to the cruel live-export industry.

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