EcoTextile News
Leeds 5 March 2012
The Australian wool industry has now come under renewed pressure from leading European and US textile and clothing retail industry associations in a bid to outlaw the practice of mulesing sooner rather than later.
…“We expect all growers who continue to mules their sheep, while mulesing alternatives are being developed, to employ effective analgesics in the interim, and report on the NWD their use of pain relief on mulesed animals,” it read…
This pressure takes the form of a new position paper put forward by sixteen powerful organisations such as the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), The Association of European Fashion Retailers (AEDT), British Retail Consortium (BRC), Canadian Apparel Federation (CAF), Foreign Trade Association (FTA), National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Nordic Initiative Clean and Ethical (NICE) among others.