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'No more mulesed wool!' - PETA protest at Melbourne Fashion Week show - 15 March 2011

Submitted by peter on Tue, 15/03/2011 - 11:19pm

Continuing its campaign against 'mulesing', People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) staged a protest this evening outside the Designer Award 2011 Finalist show, part of Melbourne Fashion Week sponsored by Woolmark. Two women wearing heart-shaped signs were accompanied by other campaigners holding placards reading 'No more mulesed wool', and others distributed leaflets.

Earlier, PETA had emailed more than 5oo stud merino breeders calling on them to act to stop the practice -

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"Canada's shame" - protest at seal pup slaughter

Submitted by peter on Fri, 13/11/2009 - 6:31pm

If like me you thought that bludgeoning baby seals to death was something that ended years ago, then think again: this year over 60,000 harp seal pups were slaughtered, and the figure would have been five times larger if fear of a European Union ban on seal products had not led many fishermen to stay at home (source: http://www.harpseals.org/).

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PETA protests at whipping of horses - 1 August 2009

Submitted by peter on Sat, 01/08/2009 - 7:54pm

Coming out of ACMI at Federation Square on my way to a rally in support of the people of Honduras - report coming soon - my eye was caught by an unexpected sight across the way in front of the Australian Racing Museum - which was otherwise advertising the celebration on Sunday 2 August of the traditional "horses' birthday":

There is a short video of the protest on EngageMedia - http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/pc/videos/peta-1aug09.mpg/view - also available on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvZPOxk9Klw

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