Protect lambs from painful mutilations.

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Urge your MP to support mandatory pain relief for surgery

Many people are shocked to learn that it's legal and routine to cut body parts off Australian lambs without giving them any pain relief. Our laws don't protect animals but you can. TAKE ACTION now!

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Urge your MP to support mandatory pain relief for surgery

Many people are shocked to learn that it's legal and routine to cut body parts off Australian lambs without giving them any pain relief. Our laws don't protect animals but you can. TAKE ACTION now!

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Last updated December 23, 2021

Most Australians grow up assuming (understandably) that farmed animals are protected from cruelty. Sadly, governments and industry bodies have so far failed animals, and the community, in this.

Every year in Australia, millions of lambs are subjected to invasive and painful procedures like mulesing, tail ‘docking’ and castration — all without pain relief.

CONTENT WARNING: this footage shows animals in distress experiencing painful procedures that are routine and legal in Australia.

Victoria is the only state to have introduced a legal requirement to provide any pain relief for lambs when mulesing (though not tail docking or castration).

During mulesing, which is usually done to avoid flystrike, a lamb is restrained and metal shears are used to cut away a large swathe of skin around their buttocks. ‘Tail docking’ usually occurs at the same time and cuts through the bone. Mulesing is already banned in New Zealand. Accepted animal welfare science — and common sense — makes it clear that the lamb would experience intense pain and distress during this process, and for several weeks afterwards as the large wound heals.

Cruel practices like this were established in another era. They only exist because of an outdated idea that some animals are friends, and others food (or wool, or both), with their ‘category’ determining their level of legal protection. This is despite the fact that all animals share the capacity to suffer.

It’s well past time for laws and industry practices to reflect science and community expectations about how animals are treated.

We wouldn’t do it to a dog. Why a lamb?

You can help protect lambs from painful mutilations

Use the form above to send an instant message to your state MP and state Agriculture Minister, asking them to introduce laws to require mandatory pain relief for invasive procedures on lambs and other farmed animals, and bring an end to mulesing altogether.