Benetton is baaad for sheep, claim activists

BLINDFOLDED activists staged an eye-catching protest outside a Benetton clothes store yesterday to highlight what they claim is a ‘gruesome’ abuse of millions of lambs and sheep by the Australian wool industry.

Members of the Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) were attempting to convince the retail chain not to sell garments made with Australian wool until live exports are banned and other farming methods stopped.

John Carmody, who led the banner-wielding group outside Benetton on Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green, claimed a “gruesome” procedure called mulesing was being used on the lambs.