Why is PETA boycotting the Australian wool industry?
PETA launched a boycott of the Australian wool industry after a year of appeals to the Australian government yielded no result. Our goal is to pressure the wool industry and government to ban two extremely cruel practices in Australian sheep farming: mulesing and live export. PETA urges everyone to boycott Australian wool until these practices are ended. Already, retail giant Abercrombie & Fitch has signed onto PETA’s boycott by agreeing not to use Australian wool in its garments until mulesing and live export are banned, and U.K.-based retailer New Look has given assurances that it does not use wool from mutilated lambs or sheep who have been exported alive.
