please read and cross post, very well written by DawnWatch!!

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Please read this very good e-mail from Karen Dawn from DawnWatch!!

 

Take care,

 

Sandra Wijnveldt

 

 

DawnWatch:

 

The vast majority of my rs are American, but I wanted to make sure

all animal advocates know of a controversy making front page news in

Australia and being covered by numerous papers internationally, though not

in the US. Australia exports live animals to countries with religious

slaughter laws that preclude slaughter in Australia before export. Therefore

approximately seven million animals bred in Australia are killed each year

via methods banned in Australia on grounds of cruelty. Further, the animals,

packed into sweltering ships, suffer terribly on the journey to their

deaths. The controversy has been brought to a head as a shipload of 53,000

sheep (4,000 already having died), rejected by Saudi Arabia as disease

ridden, has remained at sea since August 5th.

 

The front page of Melbourne's The Age, on Saturday, September 26, explains:

 

" The passengers on the ship adrift in the Gulf, the Cormo Express, were

always going to be lambs to the slaughter. But their fate became uncertain

and protracted when authorities at their destination in Saudi Arabia refused

to accept the shipment, saying too many sheep were diseased (a claim the

ship's owners and vets deny). More importantly for Australia, the confusion

about the fate of the ship's 53,000 survivors, whose slaughter might now

take place in an Iraqi abattoir, has lifted the lid on a reality that many

Australians have found distasteful: that the prosperity of many farms and

the rural communities behind them ultimately relies on a practice that is

banned in Australia on the grounds of cruelty.

 

" More than six million sheep and nearly a million cattle are exported from

Australia each year. About 99 per cent of them go to Muslim countries whose

interpretation of religious law means the animals will be killed by having

their throats cut to allow them to bleed to death. It means they remain

almost fully conscious for between 10 and 30 seconds, before losing

consciousness and ultimately dying. "

 

That front page story, headed " Lambs to the Slaughter " can be read on the

web at:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/26/1064083191426.html

 

The Sunday, September 28 paper carries a wonderful op-ed by Terry Lane

headed, " This live trade must stop. "

Lane comes down hard on religious beliefs that lead to animal cruelty:

 

" We do not bend our rules against cruelty to animals to accommodate the

superstitions of others. Religion has a lot to answer for, and the suffering

of animals is just one more item in its catalogue of cruelties. But ours is

a secular nation and we must live by reason and compassion and be

indifferent to special pleadings of the true believers. "

 

His final lines, after a brief look at history, are a delight:

" Even at times when the darkest deeds were being committed there was always

someone who knew better. If it were not so the whole wobbly process of

civilisation would grind to a halt. We depend utterly on the few who know

better to keep us moving forward.

 

" This week the few who know better are the Portland animal rights protesters

and the RSPCA. They are the John Browns of our times. "

 

You can read that piece on line at:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/27/1064083233867.html

 

Here are links to other recent coverage in The Age:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/26/1064083190609.html

 

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/26/1064083191618.html

 

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/26/1064083191615.html

 

The Weekend Australian, Saturday, September 27 also has the story:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7384921%255E27

02,00.html

 

And you'll find lots of information on the Live Animal Trade at the Animal

Liberation NSW website:

http://www.animal-lib.org.au/docs/appeal_winter2003.shtml

 

You can read eye-witness accounts on the Animals Australia website at:

http://www.animalsaustralia.org

 

The front page story and wonderful op-ed in Melbourne's The Age call for

appreciative letters to the editor. I hope all Aussie activists will write.

Letters from representatives of animal rights and humane organizations in

other countries would also be great.

The Age takes letters at: letters

Link: letters

 

You may also want to respond to the national paper, The Weekend Australian.

The paper takes letters at:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.auaus_letters.htm

 

Always include your full name, address, and daytime phone number when

sending a letter to the editor. Shorter letters are more likely to be

published.

 

Yours and the animals',

Karen Dawn

www.DawnWatch.com

 

(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in

the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets.

You can learn more about it at www.DawnWatch.com. To to DawnWatch,

email KarenDawn and tell me you'd like to receive alerts.  If

at any time you find DawnWatch is not for you, just let me know via email

and I'll take you off the r list immediately. If you forward or

reprint DawnWatch alerts, please do so unedited, leaving DawnWatch in the

title and including this tag line.)

 

 

 

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Dear sir/madam

thank you for sending valuable informations and e-mail to us and We wish to

request that kindly send us valuable informations and email .

 

yours sincerly,

 

Dr.V.V.Vaalliappan.

Veterinary Surgeon and Founder Chairman,

PRAANI MITHRAAN (Trust for Animal Welfare and Protection)

Madurai,Tamil Nadu,

India.

 

sandrawijnveldt wrote:

Please read this very good e-mail from Karen Dawn from DawnWatch!!

 

Take care,

 

Sandra Wijnveldt

 

 

DawnWatch:

 

The vast majority of my rs are American, but I wanted to make sure

all animal advocates know of a controversy making front page news in

Australia and being covered by numerous papers internationally, though not

in the US. Australia exports live animals to countries with religious

slaughter laws that preclude slaughter in Australia before export. Therefore

approximately seven million animals bred in Australia are killed each year

via methods banned in Australia on grounds of cruelty. Further, the animals,

packed into sweltering ships, suffer terribly on the journey to their

deaths. The controversy has been brought to a head as a shipload of 53,000

sheep (4,000 already having died), rejected by Saudi Arabia as disease

ridden, has remained at sea since August 5th.

 

The front page of Melbourne's The Age, on Saturday, September 26, explains:

 

" The passengers on the ship adrift in the Gulf, the Cormo Express, were

always going to be lambs to the slaughter. But their fate became uncertain

and protracted when authorities at their destination in Saudi Arabia refused

to accept the shipment, saying too many sheep were diseased (a claim the

ship's owners and vets deny). More importantly for Australia, the confusion

about the fate of the ship's 53,000 survivors, whose slaughter might now

take place in an Iraqi abattoir, has lifted the lid on a reality that many

Australians have found distasteful: that the prosperity of many farms and

the rural communities behind them ultimately relies on a practice that is

banned in Australia on the grounds of cruelty.

 

" More than six million sheep and nearly a million cattle are exported from

Australia each year. About 99 per cent of them go to Muslim countries whose

interpretation of religious law means the animals will be killed by having

their throats cut to allow them to bleed to death. It means they remain

almost fully conscious for between 10 and 30 seconds, before losing

consciousness and ultimately dying. "

 

That front page story, headed " Lambs to the Slaughter " can be read on the

web at:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/26/1064083191426.html

 

The Sunday, September 28 paper carries a wonderful op-ed by Terry Lane

headed, " This live trade must stop. "

Lane comes down hard on religious beliefs that lead to animal cruelty:

 

" We do not bend our rules against cruelty to animals to accommodate the

superstitions of others. Religion has a lot to answer for, and the suffering

of animals is just one more item in its catalogue of cruelties. But ours is

a secular nation and we must live by reason and compassion and be

indifferent to special pleadings of the true believers. "

 

His final lines, after a brief look at history, are a delight:

" Even at times when the darkest deeds were being committed there was always

someone who knew better. If it were not so the whole wobbly process of

civilisation would grind to a halt. We depend utterly on the few who know

better to keep us moving forward.

 

" This week the few who know better are the Portland animal rights protesters

and the RSPCA. They are the John Browns of our times. "

 

You can read that piece on line at:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/27/1064083233867.html

 

Here are links to other recent coverage in The Age:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/26/1064083190609.html

 

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/26/1064083191618.html

 

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/26/1064083191615.html

 

The Weekend Australian, Saturday, September 27 also has the story:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7384921%255E27

02,00.html

 

And you'll find lots of information on the Live Animal Trade at the Animal

Liberation NSW website:

http://www.animal-lib.org.au/docs/appeal_winter2003.shtml

 

You can read eye-witness accounts on the Animals Australia website at:

http://www.animalsaustralia.org

 

The front page story and wonderful op-ed in Melbourne's The Age call for

appreciative letters to the editor. I hope all Aussie activists will write.

Letters from representatives of animal rights and humane organizations in

other countries would also be great.

The Age takes letters at: letters

Link: letters

 

You may also want to respond to the national paper, The Weekend Australian.

The paper takes letters at:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.auaus_letters.htm

 

Always include your full name, address, and daytime phone number when

sending a letter to the editor. Shorter letters are more likely to be

published.

 

Yours and the animals',

Karen Dawn

www.DawnWatch.com

 

(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in

the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets.

You can learn more about it at www.DawnWatch.com. To to DawnWatch,

email KarenDawn and tell me you'd like to receive alerts. If

at any time you find DawnWatch is not for you, just let me know via email

and I'll take you off the r list immediately. If you forward or

reprint DawnWatch alerts, please do so unedited, leaving DawnWatch in the

title and including this tag line.)

 

 

 

________

 

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