Alternative mulesing injection put to the test

A viable alternative to surgical mulesing may be closer to commercial availability than woolgrowers think and it has been developed on a small budget by NSW firm, Cobbett Technologies. As seen on www.farmonline.com.au - Check out our site to find dedicated web content as well as articles sourced from Australia's leading rural newspapers and magazines on industry and lifestyle issues affecting rural Australia. From agricultural news, weather, classifieds and market reports to properties for sale, job vacancies and rural events, farmonline has it covered.

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[waratahNSW]

Kirstie Clements opened the LOreal Melbourne fashion festival (LMFF) Designer awards with a bravo to Australian Wool Innovation.

Fashion starts with the fabric", wool is the best fibre, and we must get its message out to the world, preened style-setter Ms Clements, to a roaring round of applause from the trendy fashion elitists

Wool is a pleasure to work with. I love the light bouncy handle to suiting wool and it sews and presses so perfectly. There is no better fibre to tailor with.

[waratahNSW]

The Australian wool market this week saw good gains on the back of more spirited buying in the auction place. There was a

far more even spread of buyers which is a positive sign for prices in the lead up to Christmas. There were sales in

Melbourne, Fremantle and Newcastle with a total national offering of 45,527 bales of which 8.2% were passed in. The EMI

rose 17ac for the week to close at 867

[samstoner]

when mulesing is banned, it will cause more pain than mulesing has. more sheep will die of flystrike. if a local anesthesia is used the operation is basically painless.

[MajorShootinPayne]

PETA advocates spaying pets... organs are removed from the animal's body cavity on an outpatient basis.

Mulesing removes two small patches of skin under local anesthesia and the healthy skin heals quickly.

It helps prevent the animal from being parasitized by blowfly larva, causing gaping wounds that may not heal, necrosis, systemic infection, death...

PETA advocates major surgery to prevent stray pets, but threats this minor procedure as if it were torture.

OMG why?

[bolekys]

PETA- People eating tasty animals

[bolekys]

!!!PETA!!! People Eating Tasty Animals!!

[chinese5angel]

Retailer H&M boycotts Australian wool ONE of the world's largest clothing retailers has slapped a ban on Australian wool after pressure from a US animal rights group. Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) complained the Australian wool industry had "reneged" on a promise to phase out mulesing sheep by 2010. Mulesing is a now controversial technique used by Australian farmers to prevent agonising and fatal flystrike by cutting skin from around a sheep's rear end.