[presidio9]

I did a Google search. It is a sheep farming process, where folds of skin are cut away to prevent "flystrike." Flys lay their eggs in the folds and the wool gets infested with maggots. The animal people feel that this is inhumane, because no anesthetic is typically used, and because when sheep are mulesed, it is impossible to identify which ones have excessive skin folds, so this trait continues to propagate.

[AmishDude]

Of course, if "anesthetic" is applied, a given proportion of the sheep will die, but who cares, ya know?

Martina might not understand this, but I suspect, in the little-travelled areas of Australia, worse things are done to sheep without their consent.