Wrinkly Skin on Sheep Arses

"Swedish animal rights activists have stripped off in an effort to get Swedes to boycott Australian wool, saying the way it is produced is cruel to sheep.

The group, from the Swedish branch of international animal rights group Peta, carried out the naked protest in front of the Australian Embassy in Stockholm on Monday.

They were demonstrating against a procedure known as mulesing, in which strips of wrinkly skin are removed from lambs in order to prevent infestation by maggots.

"There are plenty of alternatives, but the farmers don't choose them because they are more expensive and because they are tied to tradition," Ludvig Lindström, a Swedish animal rights activist, told The Local.

Lindström added that Australian sheep have been bred with extra-wrinkly skin in order to produce more wool, something he said makes the sheep more vulnerable to flystrike, or maggot infestation.

Stripping was a good way to let the public know about the issue, Lindström told The Local.

"We want to bring attention to this cause and show the naked truth about the Australian wool industry," Lindström said, adding that "a lot of people who came up and spoke to use were surprised at what we told them."

The Australian Wool Growers Association has said it is committed to phasing out mulesing by 2010, and is researching the alternatives."

"We want to bring attention to this cause and show the naked truth about the Australian wool industry," Lindström said, adding that "a lot of people who came up and spoke to use were surprised at what we told them."


I bet they were surprised, and it had nothing to do with wool.

Do they really get that small?

"The Australian Wool Growers Association has said it is committed to phasing out mulesing by 2010, and is researching the alternatives."

We can ALL go naked instead, problem solved

Are people here advocating cruelty to animals

Animals should be treated as humanely and if there is an alternative to suffering of dumb animals, well why is it not being used.

there is no need for cruelty.

yeah Naked men in winter is cruel....on the eyes.

Well all the norwegians can put their clothes back on....

the problem is solved now...

due to the drought in Australia..

all the farmers are being forced to leave their land...

and are forced to shoot their sheep...

one good outcome i guess is that the norwegians wont get frost bite on their dangly bits

The point of my post was actually cruelty to animals

yep my point too...

but if i was a sheep...

id rather a nip and tuck...

than to be fly blown..

geezzz look at all the people having nip and tucks ..

no one complains about that...

They can find other means to deal with this problem.
As a matter of fact they already have other ways to treat this problem.

Stop the cruelty to defenseless animals.

weve found a new method...

weve all adopted a sheep...

and got its back covered...

we even take them for a sunday ride...

Oh the senselessness of it all...makes me wanna send the Swede's some velcro gloves for the holidays

When it comes to cutting half a sheeps arse off, I think it should be stopped,and it really shouldn't be that hard to change...
There are alternatives, but they cost more...

Cutting half a sheep's arse off?

Where do you get your info from?

For goodness sake, you need to pull something out of somewhere ...

i guess it all comes down to economics...

farmers get $2.30 a kg...

they need to pay for water...wich costs more than petrol

and feed....

so can you google how much a nip and tuck would cost for a sheep please..

I can`t , I`ve used up all my google vouchers for this month already.

I stripped for someone once - but it cost him more than a sheep...














Jess642

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I can't believe it, there have already been more responses to the possible mistreating of sheep than there were to the post about a week ago where an Australian Boy was found dead in a suitcase. I guess if a dead sheep was found in a suitcase there would be total outrage. No wonder this world is so screwed up

Garden, I responded to the first thread brought up about that issue.

It is, I agree, a more outrageous thing that a young child was murdered.

Half of the posters are newbies, in this thread, and would not be aware of that thread.