Staring dazed at the sun with the Sydney Kings hosting another Martin Place free throw shoot out, the Australian Wool Innovation broke a line of blindfolded protestors for their AGM on Barrack Street in the city. Biting flies were taking their meat off the few commercial workers watching in dismay at the line up holding placards, shielding the rear doors of a nearby van. Inside, a looped graphic video of sheep undergoing the barbaric process of mulesing (where, from the video, the sheep is sliced open while on its back on a rack and the blood runs freely).
Few photographers and cameras were on hand as practice details of 80% against the 20% were weighed and recounted.
One man, who shall pay his respects to the alignment of racial profiling, attempted to walk his way around the spectacle only to be roped in by one of the troupe, setting him into the array. Lost and certainly without the blood curdling in the veins of those already in line against the mulesing, his attempts to free himself were awash with polite embarrassment and a mind in conflict lost against the tiny crowd.
Cut out mulesing! Not living flesh!
Written on Friday, 19 November 2004