Not exact matches
While live
exports continue,
animals will continue to suffer —
at sea and on foreign shores.
It is
at the receiving end of the
export process that accusations of flimsy pens, overcrowding or the loading of
animals that were not fit for the voyage can be found.
At the other end of the journey, the
exported animals came back into view.
Animals Australia has implored both the Rudd government and LiveCorp / Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) to at the very least reduce the risks posed to exported Australian animals by ensuring that they were not onsold to individual buyers - an outcome that they could legitimately achieve through requirements in export permits and exporter / importer agre
Animals Australia has implored both the Rudd government and LiveCorp / Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) to
at the very least reduce the risks posed to
exported Australian
animals by ensuring that they were not onsold to individual buyers - an outcome that they could legitimately achieve through requirements in export permits and exporter / importer agre
animals by ensuring that they were not onsold to individual buyers - an outcome that they could legitimately achieve through requirements in
export permits and exporter / importer agreements.
In early 2004 and again in 2006
Animals Australia investigators visited Kuwait and brought the brutal treatment of sheep and cattle in Kuwait
at the Shuwaikh abattoir and the Al Rai livestock market to the attention of the Federal government and live
export industry.
Meanwhile,
Animals Australia has called for the
export licence of the company
at the centre of the latest live
export row to be suspended.
Every live
export shipment subjects
animals to cramped, unfamiliar living conditions and food, risks of extreme weather, and the ever present stress of life
at sea.
Animals are
exported to countries where laws do not protect them from extreme cruelty and in some cases, where no
animal protection laws exist
at all.
High - profile Australian politicians, actors and psychologists — as well as some of
Animals Australia's own investigators — speak at the rallies, urging the government to take strong action to help protect animals from abuse by ending the cruel live export
Animals Australia's own investigators — speak
at the rallies, urging the government to take strong action to help protect
animals from abuse by ending the cruel live export
animals from abuse by ending the cruel live
export trade.
From Australia alone, millions of
animals have suffered and perished
at sea over the decades that the live
export trade has existed.
Mr Speaker the economic argument is in fact strongly in favour of banning live
animal exports because of the way the trade is cannibalising the processed meat industry
at the expense of thousands of Australian jobs.
All too often, moves to take a lead and improve
animal welfare standards
at home are stopped in their tracks by the threat that all we will do is
export our industry to third world countries which have lower welfare standards.
So requiring that all
export production should
at least match the standards of the country for which it is destined is less radical than it sounds but could have a huge impact on culture and attitudes towards
animal welfare.
A $ 65 million
animal transit facility
at JFK that opened a year ago to great fanfare, as «the world's only
animal terminal and the first full - service quarantine facility» for the import and
export of horses, pets, zoo
animals and livestock sits empty due to a legal battle.
The sender, Alfred Russel Wallace, a young and enthusiastic natural scientist who had traveled around the world
at his own expense, and earned his livelihood by
exporting exotic
animals.
They incorporated the lifecycle of phytoplankton and zooplankton — small, often microscopic
animals at the bottom of the food chain — into a novel mechanistic model for assessing the global ocean carbon
export.
In total,
exports of meat and other
animal products use
at least 8 percent of the global agricultural land base.
Again, I strongly believe, and it's documented, the U.S. is by far the safest and most secure in the area of meat production but
at the same time the demands by the public for greater safeguards and security, especially as we start to
export more, continues to bode well for veterinarians, who are very integral and are already very involved in the production
animal side of the profession.
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.
In addition to the main
animal handling facility with pet boarding,
animal import and
export center, and a livestock
export handling system, a key component of the ARK
at JFK will be a veterinary hospital operated by LIFECARE Veterinary Health System.