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Take Action: No More Lamb Torture in Australia!
Farmers in Australia are torturing lambs by cutting off parts of their skin to rid them of pests. But there are alternatives.
Goal: 30,000
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Progress: 20,660
Sponsored by: The Animal Rescue Site
In Australia, rural farmers are taking part in a practice called mulesing that involves painfully mutilating lambs and sheep. An infestation of maggots has taken hold of many sheep populations on Australian farms, and farmers' first line of defense is to slice large portions of skin off of the poor animals in attempts to rid them of the pests. No anesthetics are used in this process and the lambs are often permanently wounded. They can even bleed to death.
The saddest part about this appalling practice is that alternatives exist. One such way is to breed sheep that don't possess as wrinkly skin so that the flies that lay the eggs don't have anywhere to hide on their bodies.
Write to Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard asking her to require farmers to begin breeding tactics that will make the lambs' skin less accommodating for the flies so that no more innocent sheep are unnecessarily mutilated.
Dear Prime Minister Gillard,
I was appalled to learn of the lamb mutilation that's taking place on farms in Australia. It's utterly wrong and inhumane to continue a process that renders these creatures wounded and bloody. Mulesing is so cruel that the lambs aren't even given an anesthetic before the procedure takes place. They also run the risk of bleeding to death.
I realize the dangers of allowing a pest to run rampant on a farm's animal population, but the reality is that there are alternatives to mulesing that are not currently being utilized as much as they could be.
Sheepskin is often wrinkly and prone to folding, which is what attracts the flies — it's a warm place to lay their eggs. But, with some time and effort, farmers are able to breed sheep that do not possess such wrinkly skin.
I am writing to ask that you require sheep farmers to adapt advanced breeding techniques that will eventually phase out mulesing altogether.
Sincerely,
Petition Signatures
May 14, 2013
Catherine Burbury
May 14, 2013
Lytha Lee
May 14, 2013
Dorthey Hentz
May 14, 2013
Lisa Rex
May 14, 2013
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May 14, 2013
Judy Talley
May 14, 2013
Christina DeHaro
May 14, 2013
Meri Paunonen
May 14, 2013
Emily Brown
May 14, 2013
Chris Martino
May 14, 2013
danielle rubens
May 14, 2013
Tracey Crans
May 13, 2013
Diana Dupree
May 13, 2013
sandra houghton
May 13, 2013
Alexandre Cavalcanti
May 13, 2013
Susan Cavalcanti
May 13, 2013
Jo Pagnac
May 13, 2013
Cecelia Samp
May 13, 2013
Laurice Helmer
May 12, 2013
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May 12, 2013
Carol Dreeszen
May 12, 2013
Stefania Nobile
Barbarism... this is what it is... and it's plain wrong. Stop it!
May 12, 2013
Nicole Matier
May 12, 2013
Jennifer Cook
May 12, 2013
süheyla muş
this is not right how do you do that to those beautiful creatures, law MUST protect animals and their wellbeings. procedurs like this can not be accepted PLEASE DO SOMETHİNG.
May 12, 2013
Patricia Porter
How can you be so cruel and unfeeling?!!
May 11, 2013
lynn gray
May 11, 2013
Ingrid Hartman
May 11, 2013
Carie Delgado
May 11, 2013
Jacqueline Robinson
May 11, 2013
Kirsty Bingham
May 11, 2013
aleksandra srbinoska
May 11, 2013
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May 11, 2013
Tracy Schofield
This is cruel and barbaric I thought your country had progressed!!
May 11, 2013
LEIRE ELOSEGI
May 11, 2013
John LaRochelle
May 11, 2013
michel raciti
May 10, 2013
JOHN FUENTES
May 10, 2013
Raluca Lucaciu
I read many things here but this really makes me sick...What is wrong with you people...I wish i could be the farmer and the lamb those persons who do such an horible thing...only then u will realize what feels that little innocent animal!
May 10, 2013
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Please stop this inhumane practice...use the alternative method. Have a heart and cease harming these precious animals.
May 10, 2013
Brenda Morris
May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
Kirk Shellko
May 10, 2013
muriel roberts
time to boycott Australian lamb in Britain and other countries now that we know this is cruelty is happening
May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
Pamela Scott
May 10, 2013
Jane Parker
May 10, 2013
Bruce Forster
May 10, 2013
Lynda Hughes
May 10, 2013
Natalie Beens
