Pink is no longer backing the PETA campaign encouraging a boycott of Australian wool because of Australian farmers' ongoing use of the pretty disturbing practice of mulesing, which, as previously reported, involves cutting skin from lambs' rears to prevent infestations of maggots.
The pop star hasn't had a change of heart and now thinks it's not cruel at all, but has since learned (as we noted in our earlier report on this subject) that the Australian wool industry plan to phase out mulesing by 2010 anyway, so Pink thinks she should have done a bit more research before endorsing a campaign to end something that the Australian farmers are going to end in due course anyway.
On her appearance in a PETA video condemning the practice, the singer told Aussie TV: "I probably could have been a lot more researched, on my own. That's the lesson I'm taking from this".
She continued: "My message was, in my mind, boycott animal cruelty - not an entire industry, not Australia, obviously, because it's my favourite country. Then going back, I was speaking without thinking and I actually did say ban Australia, which is bullshit. It's not something that I can agree with. I have nothing against farmers. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania. I don't want to hurt anyone, I just want the animals to hurt less."