Sentences with phrase «against live export»

Wood, who chairs the parliamentary RSPCA friendship group, said he had been against the live export trade throughout his career, although up to now he hadn't called for a ban.

Victorian crossbench senator Derryn Hinch, a long - time campaigner against live exports, tweeted on Wednesday: «Our petition calling for Parliament to phase out live exports from Australia over 3 years now near 85,000 signatures.

It's not a humane thing to do and as an animal welfare organisation we are against live exports on principal - if the only purpose is to slaughter on arrival at the destination.

Not exact matches

When campaigning against whaling gained momentum in the late 1970's, similar arguments were made in its defence that we now hear in support of live export: jobs depended on it; whaling underpinned regional economies; and what would local communities do instead?

And the signs so far in Brazil are very positive — a public inquiry will be held, legislation to ban live export is to be drafted, vets and vet students are being educated and beginning to speak out against the trade, and the meat processing union has publicly announced its opposition to live export.

This resulted in a lot of publicity and Celia realised that her modelling career gave her an ideal platform from which to campaign against the fur trade, factory farming, vivisection, and other animal abuses including, much later, the live export of sheep, calves and pigs across Europe from the UK.