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Australian Wool Organization Working on Response to U.S. Associations' Mulesing Concerns

The Federation of Australian Wool Organizations Inc. has responded to a June 9, 2010 letter from U.S. apparel and retail associations on their continued concerns over the Australian animal husbandry practice for sheep known as mulesing. The Federation stated that…

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the Australian industry is committed to a strategy that removes the need for mulesing to prevent flystrike in Australian sheep and that it would formally respond to the U.S. association concerns in August.