Mulesing
Mulesing deadline alive again
Weekly Times January 2, 2013-01-05 Sarah Hudson ANIMAL activists have set a new deadline for Australian wool growers to cease mulesing. Animal Liberation NSW executive director Mark Pearson has demanded producers abandon the controversial practice, where skin is removed from … Continue reading
Values key to agriculture’s social licence
Stock Journal | BY DEANNA LUSH | 16 Jul, 2012 LIVESTOCK farmers are being urged to reclaim the moral high ground in the animal welfare debate by understanding that values – not science – drive the public’s perception of agricultural … Continue reading
Building trust to benefit agriculture
The Land | BY COLIN BETTLES | 20 Jul, 2012 Australian agriculture could soon benefit from having a local branch of the highly successful US Center for Food Integrity (CFI). CFI chief Charlie Arnot outlined plans to establish a similar … Continue reading
Mulesing – Retail position paper
The following ‘position paper’ was issued in the last week of February 2012 and is signed by 17 trade organisations representing European and North American textile apparel manufacturers, retailers and brands on the practice of mulesing in the Australian … Continue reading
A new generation of breeders
Weekly Times Brian Clancy | October 31, 2011 If the prices paid for Merino rams this season are any guide, the trend is back to big wool cuts. But there is also more, according to South Australian stud breeder Andrew … Continue reading
Musesing Declaration ‘innocent’ mistake
Rural Press BY TERRY SIM |18 Oct, 2011 03:30 AM A TREND among Australian woolgrowers of incorrectly declaring their sheep as not mulesed was “innocent”, according to AWEX quality and technical manager Dr Kerry Hansford. On-farm inspections by AWEX between … Continue reading
Patagonia pushes traceability
Rural Press TERRY SIM 27 Aug, 2011 OUTDOOR clothing company Patagonia gave its full support for wool traceability and unmulesed wool production at the Merino2020 conference in Wagga Wagga last week. While outlining the development of the company’s NewMerino® … Continue reading
British Retail Consortium policy
The British Retail Consortium have indicated that they were misrepresented in the article written by Brian Clancy of the Weekly Times dated 11/8/2011. Below is their stated policy. British Retail Consortium (BRC) members are committed to sourcing wool and woollen … Continue reading
UK heat off mulesing
Weekly Times | Brian Clancy August 10, 2011 BRITISH retailers are no longer telling Australian wool growers to stop mulesing. But they want to be informed of what practices are being used on farms, in an effort to appease animal … Continue reading
Ludwig’s social licence
Weekly Times Brian Clancy | June 24, 2011 WHETHER it was thought up by Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig or the Government, “social licence” is on the farming agenda. Senator Ludwig referred to a social licence when questioned last week … Continue reading