We’ve exposed live lamb cutting. Again.
The Victorian wool industry
is required to use pain relief during live lamb cutting.
This is failing to protect sheep.
We need a total ban on this mutilation.
Help us end this violence.
Image: Animals Uncovered
There’s more you can do for lambs:
1. Learn more about wool
Live lamb cutting isn’t the only issue tied up in wool production. Lambs are subjected to other legal, painful mutilations, and are ultimately slaughtered in the industry. What’s more, wool production is extremely environmentally impactful, and even involves some human justice issues.
2. Learn about alternatives to wool
What we buy – or don’t buy – helps to shape the fashion industry. If we take a little more care when we buy clothes, we can contribute to the creation of a total ethics fashion system which respects people, animals and the planet.
Avoiding wool is the best way to help sheep. Choosing recycled, plant-based and other responsible alternatives also helps the planet. Of course, buying less and buying pre-loved is always the best thing you can do.
3. Support our work
With your support, we can do even more to help create a total ethics fashion system that respects all animals – human and non-human, as well as the planet.
Please consider donating to Collective Fashion Justice, or if you need any new, total ethics knitwear, head to our site, Willow and Claude, to purchase our non-profit knitwear (you can learn all about how it’s made in our short film on the same site!)
Here's what we've achieved so far:
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Victorian MP Georgie Purcell raised a live lamb cutting ban in Parliament
The Animal Justice Party member called on the Victorian Parliament to ban mulesing, and has urged her supporters to contact the Minister for Agriculture regarding this serious issue of injustice.
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UK trade deal delayed by live lamb cutting
Following a viewing of our mulesing footage by MPs in the UK, thanks to FOUR PAWS, the cruel practice and other poor animal welfare standards in Australia are making trade negotiations with the UK difficult. This highlights the importance of protecting animals for global relations.
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Parliamentary petition tabled in New South Wales
Our parliamentary petition to end mulesing has been tabled by Mark Pearson MP of the Animal Justice Party, calling for the political action that so many New South Wales residents want – and that sheep deserve, at a minimum.
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International political support
Our whistleblower footage has been shown in Parliament in the United Kingdom, in an effort to impact trade agreements which currently allow for the import of such cruel wool from Australia. Politicians from the Greens Party have supported calls for greater animal protection.
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Media attention and outreach
Our campaign has been mentioned and in industry media publications such as Sheep Central, as well as on national radio and television via the ABC, through The Weekly Times and several other publications across the country.
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Broad organisational support
Our campaign and calls have been supported and amplified by organisations including FOUR PAWS, Animals Australia, The Humane Society, World Animal Protection, Kindness Project, PETA and many more.
Previously, we had exposed mulesing in New South Wales, too.
This violence is a national crisis.
Footage Collective Fashion Justice received from an ex-industry worker in New South Wales, Australia, shows just how horrific wool industry mulesing really is – even with the pain relief that is mandatory in another state.
The wool industry promised to end live lamb cutting by 2010.
They lied.
Since then, an estimated 140 million lambs have suffered through live lamb cutting as a result.
It is very clear: the government must step in and end this suffering.
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