Victory for sheep - Adidas drops mulesed wool

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ADIDAS is the latest clothing business to refuse to buy wool fromAustralian sheep that have been mulesed.It will not even use wool from sheep that have been subjected to clipsthe Australian wool industry has developed as an alternative totraditional mulesing.The company declared its position this week in a letter to the Peoplefor the Ethical Treatment of Animals in the United States, which hasbeen successfully pressuring clothing labels to boycott Australianwool since 2004.Last month, the federal Minister for Agriculture, Tony Burke, wrote toAdidas, saying Australia was developing alternatives to mulesing, butmillions of sheep would die agonising deaths if it was stoppedimmediately.-- full story:http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/adidas-boycotts-sheep-mulesing/2008/06/05/1212259007018.html http://pets.Fortheanimals7/join http://www.myspace.com/fortheanimals7