Woolworths is importing a range of clothing from Australia called Country Road. Australian lambs supplying the wool industry are forced to endure a gruesome procedure called mulesing, in which huge chunks of skin and flesh are cut from the animals backsides, without any painkillers. When their wool producing years are over millions of these sheep are then shipped to the Middle East on crowded multilevel ships. These journeys, which can last for months, are to countries where animal welfare standards are non-existent. The suffering sheep are dragged off the ships, loaded onto trucks, and dragged by their ears and legs to unregulated slaughterhouses, where their throats are slit while they are still conscious.
Many international reatailers and designers such as Hugo Boss, Marc Bower. H & M and Etam in Europe, Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, Aéropostale, Timberland, Indigenous Designs, and Limited Brands in the U.S. and New Look and George in the U.K. that have pledged not to use Australian merino wool until mulesing and live exports end.
Tell Woolworths that we will not support this barbaric industry and would prefer wool products made locally, where lambs are not mutilated or subjected to the horrors of live export!
