Sentences with phrase «animal exports because»

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.

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Because of you, fewer animals are subjected to the horrors of live export today.

Nonetheless, live sales of cattle and sheep are a small slice of Australian meat exports, in part because it is easier to slaughter animals in Australia rather than ship them alive to Asia and the Middle East.

For a start ending all live animal exports will not destroy our relationship with Indonesia, because our ties with that country are stronger than critics give them credit for and are certainly strong enough to survive our decision to stop selling it just one form of one particular foodstuff.

The religious dimension of this matter has also been mischievously overcooked by the live animal export industry, because the fact is that the overwhelming number of relatively affluent Muslims who tend to consume Australian meat would have no objection to buying that meat so long as it's been processed in an Australian Halal certified abattoir.

So, in Hedley Lomas (Case C - 5 / 94, The Queen v Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, ex parte: Hedley Lomas (Ireland) Ltd.) the United Kingdom could not prohibit the export of live sheep to Spain because it did not trust the Spanish authorities in applying EU rules on animal welfare.

Finally, as a matter of economic policy, the Animal Science Products case highlights the very real harm that occurs when national governments tolerate export cartels that reduce economic welfare outside their jurisdictions, merely because domestic economic interests are not directly affected.