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 ...

And unless the industry can explain to customers why mulesing — teamed with pain relief — must continue in some environments, it risked “losing its reputational capital”. Wool Producers of Australia ...

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 ...

Humane Society International (HSI) Australia has launched the latest edition of its ‘Better Wool Guide’ which features over 200 brands that are part of the growing movement to phase out the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian Wool Growers Association chairman Martin Oppenheimer said he expected Australian producers to have found alternatives to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Woolgrowers have been slammed for abandoning a deadline to end the controversial practice of mulesing. Agriculture lobby group AgForce ...

Non-mulesed wool is more important to European markets than Asian and Australian buyers and mulesing is less of priority across the board than other sustainability factors like using recycled ...

The plan, released last week, outlines the challenges and opportunities for wool, but never directly references mulesing. That’s despite growing consumer backlash against the controversial sheep ...

Mulesing is now banned in all major wool-exporting countries — including South Africa, Uruguay and Argentina — except Australia, the world’s largest merino wool producer. The shift follows the global ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. PETER CAVE: Animal welfare groups and rural lobby groups have attacked the decision by the Australian ...