{"id":1,"date":"2012-03-22T17:19:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mulesing\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-04-03T21:02:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T04:02:02","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mulesing\/2012\/03\/22\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Mulesing & Welfare website. The aim of this humble page is to offer you an outline of the welfare issues raised by mulesing. Mulesing, also called Mules operation, is a surgical procedure mainly performed on Merino lamb in Australia and consisting in removing the wool-bearing skin from part of the tail and breech area. It is performed in order to prevent flystrikes, a problem caused by blowflies. The operation results in a scar, a bare skin area devoid of wrinkles, less susceptible be soiled and less attractive to flies. It has traditionally been performed without anaesthetics or analgesics (Phillips, 2009<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The interest for this subject came to me totally by chance while I was surfing on the Internet. At this time, I did not even know the existence of the operation. I was first informed by the Animals Rights organizations that fight against it. Unfortunately, I felt that the information they give is not really complete. I had a hard time to find out the reasons for the procedure or the possible alternatives to it.<\/p>\n

The shocking images and videos they also offer have the advantage to be strong enough to follow you even when you don\u2019t want to think about it anymore. For a while, I even hesitated to work on the subject because of them. Then I started to look for the scientific studies on the subject. At that point, I realized that it is perfectly possible to tackle the subject and sensitize people to it though reasoning and scientific facts rather that through the violent emotional ones.<\/p>\n

Therefore, you will not find here shocking pictures or videos. I will try to offer you the information and scientific facts on the practice. I hope you will be able to make your own opinion on the subject at the end of your reading.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Header photo by James @ NZ on Flickr<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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