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Some wool growers seek talks with PETA
1 Aug 2005
Wool growers are becoming divided over the best approach to confronting the lobbying by the US-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against the practice of “mulesing” young sheep. The practice - under which farmers cut skin from a lamb’s rear - reduces the incidence of fly-strike. The Australian Wool Growers Association said court action by some other wool growers, through the dominant industry body WoolProducers, was a waste of the compulsory industry levy paid by wool growers. PETA said it was hopeful of a workable solution. WoolProducers said the AWGA negotiations with PETA were “fundamentally wrong” and said PETA’s objective is to “seriously damage and then ultimately shut down the Australian wool industry.”
Financial Review, 01/08/05
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