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Vegan wool Weganool s marketing riles up Australian woolgrowers
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Weganool is made from a blend of cotton and fibres from the calotropis weed.
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Is it acceptable for a non-wool product to market itself as vegan wool? Absolutely not, according to Wool Producers Australia.
Key points:
Wool producers say wool can only come from an animal
Weganool s retailer says the product has similar traits to wool
The peak body for woolgrowers is riled up by a marketing campaign for a new product called Weganool, made of three parts cotton and one part fibre from the weed calotropis, which is common in parts of northern Australia.
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Unshorn sheep that missed their spring hair cut are suffering under the weight of their wool due to an acute shortage of shearers caused by grounded Kiwi shearers that are no longer travelling Australia because of the coronavirus pandemic.
A structural void is opening up in the workforce as the national flock rebounds from this year s drought-induced all-time low in sheep numbers with wool producers saying their industry needs to do more to encourage young Australians to take up the shears.
An acute shortage of shearers is spurring animals welfare concerns as wool producers struggle to find workers.
China-Australia relations: could wool, honey, fruit, dairy or pharmaceutical products be next in the crosshairs? Su-Lin Tan sulin.tan@scmp.com Given that Australian wool exporters have limited alternative markets, and are heavily reliant on China, a researcher said “a substantive barrier would cripple the Australian industry”. Photo: Shutterstock
Australian wool could be China s next trade target, given its heavy dependency on the Chinese market, alongside honey, fruit, dairy and pharmaceutical products, according to analysts.
About 80 per cent of Australian wool goes to China for processing and onward sales, and as direct sales to China, making it a particularly vulnerable target, said Scott Waldron, a senior research fellow at the School of Agriculture and Food Science at the University of Queensland who has been analysing the logic behind China s trade moves.