a very worthy campaign

[Guest guest]

as many are aware PETA in the USA has started a campaign to boycott Australian

Wool

and target wool producers to stop Mulesing and live export,

well the campaign has picked up speed

here ya go

 

 

 

ITALIANS AGAINST MULESING

 

Special service by AGI on behalf of the Italian Prime Minister's

office

ENVIRONMENT: ANIMALIST REPORT, SHEEP TORTURED IN

AUSTRALIA(AGI)

Rome, Italy, December 13 –

The soft, warm wool coming from Australia hides an un

atrocious secret: Sheep and lamb on the fifth continent undergo

" atrocious mutilations and maltreatments " says a dossier with a

shocking film presented by Animalisti Italiani " .

 

The images clearly show atrocious violence " , said Ilaria Ferri, of the Captivity and Environment Marine Sectors if the

Association of Italian Animalists underlining that " they show how

every year 80 pct. of Australian sheep undergo a cruel and

mutilating practice called " mulesing " :

 

The sheep are put on their back, with their legs blocked by metal

bars, and they with no kind of aesthetic, with a pair of scissors,

breeders cut the flesh around the tail, thus creating a large injury

the size of a dinner plate, so as to obtain a smooth area with no

wool, to stop insects nesting " .

 

But things actually go differently as explained Ferri again, " the

injury needs over a month to form a scar and exposed as it is it

is an ideal substrata for infections and insects. Because of this

barbaric mutilation, animals cannot walk for days and

researchers have scientifically proven that they feel extreme pain

manifesting consequent behaviour " .

 

There are many alternatives to 'mulesing', warn the Animalisti

Italiani, practiced by 20 pct. of more sensitive breeders:

insecticides, preventive vaccinations, controlling insects in the

environment and specific diet.

 

But the horrors do not end here. According to the dossier of the

animalists, when sheep are no longer used for wool (circa 7

million a year) they are put on enormous cargos heading for

Arab and African countries where those surviving the extenuating

journey " are in any case destined to die brutally " .

 

The Animalisti Italiani have asked for an urgent meeting with the

Australian Ambassador Peter Woolcott to show him the dossier

and ask his country to forbid once and for all these sheep. In

case their request is not accepted, they suggest boycotting

Australian products in Italy.

(AGI) -132038 DIC 04