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 ...

AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has been unable or unwilling to detail an estimation of the productivity benefits associated with ...

Agriculture Minister Tara Moriarty introduced the amendment bill to the state parliament on Thursday. “The bill requires that a pain relief product, registered with the Australian Pesticides and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Australian Wool Growers Association chairman Martin Oppenheimer said he expected Australian ...

Researchers say it may not be possible to completely end mulesing and still prevent flystrike in Australian conditions – but the practice can be improved Flystrike starts in the greasy folds of skin ...