Urge Australian PM to Stop Lamb Mutilations!

Prestigious retailers and fashion designers—including Abercrombie & Fitch, H&M, and dozens of other major retailers across Europe and the U.S.—have joined the movement to stop buying wool from lambs who have endured the mulesing mutilation. In addition, Australia’s own New South Wales Farmers Association has called for an immediate ban on mulesing, and the Western Australia Department of Agriculture has announced that its own research flocks will no longer be mulesed.

Despite this overwhelming trend, the Australian wool industry continues to drag its feet on developing humane alternatives to the mulesing mutilation, instead allowing millions of lambs to be partially flayed alive every year in a cruel attempt to control flystrike.

Rather than focusing its efforts on good animal husbandry and long-term humane solutions like bare-breech breeding, the Australian wool industry wastes time and effort on cheap, cruel flystrike-control methods, like painful plastic mulesing “clips.” These so-called “alternatives” are ineffective, inhumane, and unacceptable to retailers and consumers around the world.

Please write to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd right now and ask him to ban mulesing mutilations and demand that only effective, humane alternatives be used instead.

Original Source : http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/australia_lamb