Optimism grows for mulesing clip alternative

Despite healthy scepticism from various fields, those finding a mulesing alternative by 2010 are growing in confidence that mulesing clip technology can deliver. As seen on www.farmonline.com.au 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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[amugpunter]

It's a shame media outlets aren't moving their focus to what the Australian wool industry is doing with R&D to improve the practice of mulesing. They'd prefer instead to focus on the raving left wingers who think mulesing is more savage than a lamb with flystrike. I'm willing to bet none of the members of PETA and their supporters have even been to Australia to witness the devastation of flystrike which costs the industry close to $300m each year. Check the facts before you make lame comments!

[Tebesile]

Oh, PLEASE let's not get started on the "animals can't feel pain" thing. The question is not to whether they feel physical pain (because its pretty obvious that they do; even scientists accept this), but whether they feel "emotional pain" which I think youll agree isnt really the issue here.

[DontSpoilMyDinner]

If you have developed a humane method then show the actual process. Until you show the mulesing procedure that you maintain is humane, your position is not arguable.

[radonas]

@Ineke210000 oh i thought you ment vagatarian :P but you ment veganist but i wouldn't be able to not eat meat since i love it too much.

[Ineke210000]

Does this methode still removes skin or not?

[Ineke210000]

@radonas wool is an animal product/

[radonas]

@Ineke210000 this is for wool 

[Zachypants97]

@missapplebear yeah but overall it's very cruel

[missapplebear]

mulesing is awful but i would rather have bits of skin quickly getting removed by someone who has done it a 1000 times before then getting slowly eaten alive by maggots

[missapplebear]

these farmers are saving the sheep from a much worse diesease called flystrike which involves a sheep getting eaten alive by maggots growing inside it. this practice has nothing to do with money and infact most farmers would be happy with an alternitive but the fact is that this is the most successful technique i mean how many of you who are actually appalled by this technique have actually read up on mulesing apart from watching this video?

[missapplebear]

i hate how most of the people of watch this video can call this "sheep mutilation" its not like the farmers enjoy the extra effort doing this actually im writing a report on mulesing atm its so easy to critise something you dont actually understand,

[Ineke210000]

Just go vegan!