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Wool producers clash over deal with PETA
10 Aug 2005
The Australian Wool Growers Association said it reached an agreement with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals over a plan under which sheep farmers in Australia would gradually phase out mulesing merino sheep in Australia by 2010. The agreement also calls for an end to live exports to the Middle East if animals are not slaughtered there in the same way as in Australia. AWGA is a minority wool lobby. Other wool industry bodies in Australia, such as the South Australian Farmers say the AWGA/PETA agreement is irrelevant. Wool Producers, another industry lobby, said PETA, an activist, US-based consumer lobby, had backed down.
The Advertiser, 10/08/05
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