Australian Live Animal Export - Indefensible

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Live animal export is inherently cruel, immoral and indefensible.

 

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In late December 2006, Animals Australia investigators were in Egypt...

 

....filming thousands of defenseless Australian sheep being dragged,

bound with rope, shoved into car boots, tied onto car roofs, and

thrown trussed on their backs into trucks.

 

In Cairo, investigators documented terrified sheep having their

throats cut while fully conscious. This is normal, widespread

practice in abattoirs and private homes throughout the Middle East.

 

<http://www.liveexport-indefensible.com/eupdate/government.html>The

Howard Government and Australia's live exporters send millions of

animals each year to this fate.

 

As a result, millions of people in the Middle East believe

Australians approve of this brutal treatment of animals due to our

willingness to export animals to their countries.

 

The cruelty and suffering Animals Australia documented in Egypt

directly contravenes the 2006 formal agreement between Egypt and the

Howard Government to treat Australian animals in accordance with

international standards. This 'Memorandum of Understanding' was

triumphantly publicized to reassure all Australians that the welfare

of Australian animals would be protected.

 

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Watch

<http://www.liveexport-indefensible.com/eupdate/video.html> " Live

Exports -- Indefensible " : filmed in December 2006, this moving

documentary shows the handling of Australian sheep exported to Egypt.

 

 

The Howard Government would never even have known that Egypt had

flagrantly breached the agreement had Animals Australia not

undertaken this investigation.

 

The Howard Government has seen the documented evidence. And now,

despite knowing the agreement is worthless, it will continue to allow

the export of Australian animals to an horrific fate in Egypt.

 

<http://www.liveexport-indefensible.com/eupdate/government.html>Australia's

live export industry and the Howard Government claim that they can

help change terrible animal practices in the Middle East. These

hypocritical statements are designed to protect profits generated by

animal cruelty and to keep the truth from Australian citizens and

farmers. They are made by the very same people who condone the trade

responsible for the horrendous deaths of over 2 million animals on

live export ships.

 

A few isolated training courses will NEVER counter the belief held

throughout Egypt and the entire Middle East that Australians approve

of local slaughter and handling practices.

 

If Australia wants to send the message to the region that cruelty to

animals is unacceptable, then the answer is simple. Stop sending our

animals. This would send the resounding message to all corners of the

Middle East that animal welfare matters.

 

Australian chilled and frozen meat exports to the Middle East and

Egypt represent a more humane alternative. Chilled exports to the

region are already more profitable than live exports and are growing

each year.

 

This is not about animal rights -- it is about animal wrongs.

 

The Howard Government and Australia's live exporters have blood on their hands.

 

 

 

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these important letters

 

Add your name to important letters to Australian politicians who can

end this terrible trade, and call on Egyptian Ministers to pass

animal protection laws.

 

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Crucial investigations are made possible by donations. With your

help, we will continue to reveal the truth and hold industry

accountable for this indefensible trade.

 

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