Urge Australian PM to Stop Lamb Mutilations!

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Prestigious retailers and fashion designers – including Abercrombie & Fitch, H&M and dozens of other major retailers across Europe and the US – have joined the movement to stop buying wool from lambs who have endured mulesing mutilations. 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. And each year, millions of 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 are often dragged off trucks by their ears and legs, tied up and beaten and have their throats slit while they are still conscious.

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

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Dear [ Decision Maker ],

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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 implement long-term, humane alternatives. Instead of taking real action, the Australian wool industry has turned to cheap and cruel plastic mulesing "clips", which are as cruel as hacking lambs' skin and flesh away with shears and are equally ineffective against flystrike. There is overwhelming scientific evidence that mulesing is so cruel that it adversely affects lambs for months, and the "clips" also cause great pain to the lambs. Viable, humane alternatives are already in use by many Australian farmers. There's simply no reason for the Australian government to continue to allow cruel mulesing mutilations and live export.

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

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