No More Lamb Torture in Australia!
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Sponsor: The Animal Rescue Site
Farmers in Australia are torturing lambs by cutting off parts of their skin to rid them of pests. But there are alternatives.
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.
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Write to Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott asking him 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.
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