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It has come to our attention that comments published in Issue 1 of the Better Choices Newsletter (April 2007) may have mislead readers about Australian government (State or Federal) policy towards the use of pain relief when mulesing.

Bayer Australia Limited wishes to make clear that it does not represent any government nor speak for them.
The use of pain relief when mulesing remains the choice of the individual.

A message from major wool processors to Australian woolgrowers

Woolgrowers secure UK and US retail support

Guidelines for Better Choices

Download the Better Choices pain relief wool declaration

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Benefits of Better Choices

Hear woolgrowers, vets and other industry representatives talk about 'taking the pain out of mulesing'.

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Click here to read what they are saying.

Pain relief in the news

Wool buyers plead with farmers not to quit sheep
16/07/2008
The world wool industry will be thrown into turmoil if Australian farmers continue to quit sheep over the mulesing controversy, international buyers say.
Click here to view article the West Australian

Wool processors declare support for continued mulesing
17/07/2008
More than 40 international wool processors have sent an open letter to the Australian wool industry, supporting the right of growers to mules sheep beyond 2010, if necessary.
Processors from China, the UK, Bulgaria, Turkey, Switzerland, India, Germany, Italy and France are also urging retailers to drop boycotts of Australian wool, But their support is contingent on the use of pain relief during the mulesing process.
Click here to view article on ABC online

Topless girls and guerilla PR
21/07/2008
Agriculture's efforts to counter PETA's attacks are lumbering and ineffective. As the mulesing issue has highlighted, by the time an agricultural organisation has brought its guns to bear and piled the PR munitions onto a hot issue, PETA has skipped off and is attacking from another place.
Click here to view article on Stock & Land

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Compassion In World Farming (CWIF) supports Better Choices

CWIF welcomes the initiative of the Better Choices programme to promote the use of pain relief with immediate effect to relieve the pain of sheep mulesed during the phase-out period More >>

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Click here to learn more about the Better Choices program.

Click here to hear what woolgrowers say about pain relief.

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Click here to see how many woolgrowers have already chosen pain relief.

Dr Meredith Sheil talks about pain relief

Dr Meredith Sheil, paediatrician, woolgrower and inventor of the breakthrough pain relief product for mulesed lambs talks to Better Choices.

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Australian Better Choices Vets

Pain relief for mulesed lambs is available exclusively from your vet.

Vets Australia-wide have embraced Better Choices and are encouraging the wide-spread use of pain relief at mulesing.

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