Animal welfare groups and a rural lobby group have attacked the decision by the Australian wool industry to abandon plans to phase out the controversial practice of mulesing. Mulesing involves cutting ...
To mules or not to mules — it is a vexed issue for any woolgrower. Loading... The controversial practice involves removing the skin around the breech, or anus, and the tail area of the sheep. The ...
Lamb mulesing as depicted by a video produced by animal rights group, PETA. Debate about the controversial practice of mulesing is set to be reignited again with prominent animal rights group, People ...
THE Australian wool industry has dumped a long-standing pledge to phase out mulesing by the end of 2010, a move that has outraged animal welfare groups and led to criticism by some farmers. The ...
Textile Exchange (TE) has updated the drafted Responsible Wool Standard (RWS). In TE’s second stakeholder review of the RWS, clothing brands told the nonprofit they would ban the standard if it ...
In signing the Four Paws letter, Mango joins more than 90 international fashion brands and retailers such as Adidas, Zara, Patagonia and Kathmandu that have agreed to eliminate mulesing from their ...
Following months of deliberations, the Australian Wool Exchange has decided not to make any changes to the National Wool Declaration’s (NWD) current definitions for non-mulesed and mulesed wool. The ...
Britain's leading fashion retailers are threatening to boycott Australian wool from sheep farmers who use the controversial practice of "mulesing" amid animal cruelty concerns. The move follows an ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Australian Wool Growers Association chairman Martin Oppenheimer said he expected Australian producers to have found alternatives to ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. IT BREAKS the heart of sixth-generation western Victorian woolgrower Ben Duxson to hear his industry condemned as cruel while European ...
Wool growers face hefty fines for failing to treat mulesed sheep for pain relief, under new animal cruelty regulations drafted by the Victorian Government. Under the draft regulations released for ...
THE Australian wool industry has dumped a long-standing pledge to phase out mulesing by the end of 2010, a move that has outraged animal welfare groups and led to criticism by some farmers. The ...