Who the hell is PETA to tell us what to do? And what is their real agenda?

Next time anyone has a mob of flyblown sheep, get PETA in to crutch or shear them. Better do the job yourself - they wouldn't turn up, never done a day's work before.

Go away peta, no one likes you, not even the people in the city who continue to eat meat at the same or higher rates despite your pathetic attempts to stop production. The more you preach this rubbish the more the community with react and eat more meat.

Since the current AWI unnecessarily stirred up the elephants in the room mid last year for reasons best known to themselves, there inevitably would be a reaction. Producers better hope that AWI has a sound counter plan established. Chairman Wally and his board must now walk the walk to back up his rhetoric to protect his levy payers from the likes of PETA.

Sounds like they have been listening to Sir George" and "piecemaker".

Peta is the maggot in the sheeps backside. The old AWI board got the sack because they sacrificed our industry to these parasites. Peta's insistence that they are more aware of, and more knowlegeable about the welfare of livestock than the people that look after them 24/7 in all kinds of weather and terrain, 12 months of the year is so arrogant that it takes your breath away. AWI had done entirely the right thing. Wool buyers now have the option of buying wool from unmulsed sheep, and no doubt backsliders like myself who have tried leaving lambs unmulsed will, when we see the incredible premiums that will doubtless be paid, see the error of our ways and try it again- If we haven't already mated them to meat sheep so we can pop their little heads off, and stick 'em in the fridge.

The sad truth is that AWI completely dropped the ball on the mulesing issue. PETA were always going to attack woolgrowers after Wally's arrogance and the complete disregard shown by the AWI Board for wool's customers around the world. AWI's board is completely engrossed in its own power struggle. Wally and his faction are fighting to keep Brenda as CEO and retain a base in Australia. Chick and his faction want a new CEO and a base in London. This infighting has lead to complete paralysis at AWI and PETA are taking full advantage of this. Ted, did they let you out for some fresh air today? Nice to see you are getting better.

"As retailers and consumers choose kindness over cruelty, the Australian wool industry's profits are headed for the toilet." They're already there sunshine, if the retailers and consumers want wool they are going to have to start pulling woolgrowers' profits out of toilet.

It is Peta that is the maggot in the sheep's backside not AWI. The old AWI board got the sack because they sacrificed our industry to these parasites. Peta's insistence that they are more aware of, and more knowlegeable about the welfare of livestock than the people that look after them 24/7 in all kinds of weather and terrain, 12 months of the year is so arrogant that it takes your breath away. AWI have done entirely the right thing. Wool buyers now have the option of buying wool from unmulsed sheep. No doubt backsliders like myself who have tried leaving lambs unmulesed and spent the entire summer clipping maggoty wool from their little woolly arses will, when we see the incredible premiums that will doubtless be paid, see the error of our ways and try it again... if we haven't already mated them to meat sheep so we can pop their little heads off, and stick 'em in the fridge.

Isn't it bloody marvelous what educated man comes up with. Close down the farmers, Result food shortages and starvation for the most vunerable. Close the wool industry and no wool. Use the grain to produce fuel and less food. Educate a fool and you get an educated fool. Definition of a fool, a man who has said in his heart "there is no God". Ps 53-1