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Good News for Sheep in New Zealand
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Check out this photo from yesterday's demonstration outside the New Zealand Consulate-General's office in Sydney, Australia. The demo was humming along nicely when lo and behold, former New South Wales Premier Bob Carr (Note to Americans: New South Wales is a state in Australia and a "Premier" is, like, a governor) walked up. You can tell from the photo that the girls were enjoying themselves and the coy smile on Mr. Carr's face tells me that he quite enjoyed the surprise of seeing the demonstrators, who were wearing only giant cardboard hearts, to thank New Zealand farmers for ending the practice of mulesing. For those not familiar with it, mulesing is the hideous procedure where farmers force live sheep onto their backs, restrain their legs between metal bars, and, without any painkillers whatsoever, slice chunks of flesh from around their tail area.
Anyway, for New Zealand farmers to stop mulesing altogether is a huge step forward and is a clear signal to neighboring Australian farmers that it’s time for them to do the same thing or get left in the dust . . .
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Whoa, nice job NZ!
Posted by: Canaduck | July 11, 2007 03:27 PM
this rocks - at least one more victory!
Posted by: allegro | July 12, 2007 09:28 AM
Thumbs up for New Zealand! Australia better follow suit or else!
Posted by: RabidLeroy | July 13, 2007 09:19 AM
About time!!! That's great news for the sheep. Come Australia get with the program and start caring about your animals again. Whether they are in your country or not. Also start checking up on all the animals you ship from your country to other countries like EGYPT!!!!
Posted by: Carolyn Barnes | July 15, 2007 09:13 AM
I love sheep; they are so gentle, so docile and so cruelly treated. These poor sheep can only expect a horrible violent death in Egypt and rest of the Middle East in disgusting conditions.
The solution is: go vegan!!!
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Posted by: dae seok | July 19, 2007 11:53 PM
wow i am so pleased we finally made it
Posted by: maisie | June 2, 2008 05:13 PM