Sentences with phrase «live animal export»

So what is «live animal export?»

It beggars belief a succession of Australian governments have let us down in this way, as does the revelation Meat and Livestock Australia has been fleecing producers for years, raking in enormous fees off the back of the lie it was looking after the interests of the Australian live animal export industry and the beasts it deals with, only to be busted as an irresponsible, incompetent, dishonest and uncaring bunch of cowboys.

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.

In the decades since, while our country stuck its neck out for marine mammals, a new local trade in cruelty picked up steam, largely hidden from the wider Australian community: live animal export.

More broadly I call on everyone in this place to support the Live Animal Export restriction and Prohibition Bill 2011.

It's not like these governments didn't have cause to keep an eye on our live animal export trade given all the problems the business has experienced year after year, in country after country.

Mr Speaker, much has been said of compensation for the Australian live animal export industry and yes, the Government should help the industry deal with the current moratorium's commercial jolt.

will be presenting a petition to end live export during a joint press conference with Animals Australia, RSPCA Australia and the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) in Canberra on Tuesday 31st May 2011 to demand that the Gillard Government immediately halts live export to Indonesia and commits to a phase out of the live animal export trade.

It is currently playing out in the live animal export sector, where the demise of local processing opened the door for a live export sector, which in turn through its simple business model has compromised livestock welfare and alienated many consumers, reduced employment in Top End towns which once had abattoirs, and added risk to cattle business profitability by providing only one market outlet.

See the footage Dr Abdelwahab provided to Animals Australia and urge Australian politicians to put an end to live animal export here.

But while these glimpses inside a transport ship are new, the practice of live animal export is as old as the European colonisation of Australia.

Nothing less than a complete ban on live animal export will appease the Australian public, but the industry now know that the days of lawlessness and secrecy that have been the lifeblood of the live trade, are over.

ESCAS was introduced into Australia's live animal export markets following the controversial 2011 Indonesian live cattle export ban by the former Labor government.

In contrast, herd re-stocking, following the easing of drought conditions in many areas, is expected to weigh on meat and live animal exports in the near term.

The re-stocking process will mean that meat production and live animal exports will fall significantly in 2003/04.

Mr Joyce said since the Coalition government came to office in September 2013 the value of live animal exports has amounted to $ 1.4 billion and «is continuing to break new ground».

Labor said the abattoir suspension also highlighted the need to restore Labor's independent Inspector General of Animal Welfare and Live Animal Exports, a position abolished by Mr Joyce.

Yes, the Government has done the right thing by imposing a moratorium on live animal exports to Indonesia and I applaud it along with the Minister for Agriculture for doing so.

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.

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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The Australian agriculture minister, David Littleproud, vowed to investigate and study mortality in live animal exports.

Not exact matches

She said the WA government's legal advice was that the state's animal welfare law applied to live export ships.

Live export investigations in Gaza revealed animal welfare atrocities on a scale never before seen.

THE government's long - awaited review of the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) has been released today, and according to federal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce, it indicates Australia is «a clear world leader in the welfare of exported live animals».

He said it also showed that in nine of Australia's 18 live export markets there were no incidents that impacted animal welfare.

Mr Joyce said recommendations from the ESCAS report would support continual animal welfare improvement in the nation's live export industries.

The Australian Government promised that new live export regulations would protect animals from extreme cruelty.

Animals Australia live export investigators have uncovered animal welfare atrocities during this year's Festival of Sacrifice.

MacTiernan said she had encouraged farmers to focus on boosting the boxed meat trade to key live export markets in the Middle East and North Africa in light of the «risk» posed by high profile animal welfare violations.

As a result of Animals Australia's investigation in Indonesia last year, new government regulations are now in place that have forced the live export industry to transform itself — adhering to new rules that will make exporting live animals more expensive, more difficult and importantly, more heavily scrutAnimals Australia's investigation in Indonesia last year, new government regulations are now in place that have forced the live export industry to transform itself — adhering to new rules that will make exporting live animals more expensive, more difficult and importantly, more heavily scrutanimals more expensive, more difficult and importantly, more heavily scrutinised.

Australia's sheep and cattle farmers should prepare for a dramatic reduction in the live export trade, Western Australia's agriculture minister has said, as the state prepares to mount an animal cruelty case that could render the trade unprofitable.

Top barristers warned the live export trade's days are numbered; the Australian Greens echoed this sentiment, renewing calls for the trade to be banned; Federal Labor MPs re-ignited the debate for mandatory stunning; and all parliamentarians will get the chance to make this happen when Independent MP Andrew Wilkie's legislation to require stunning for all exported animals is voted on in the coming months.

You can speak up for these animals and lobby to prevent further cruelty by urging your local MP to push for a ban on live exports.

While live exports continue, animals will continue to suffer — at sea and on foreign shores.

Each time we investigate extreme cruelty to animals within the live export trade, the stakes get even higher.

Animals Australia's first investigation in Malaysia has uncovered yet again that live export rules are being broken in a major export market.

Evidence is mounting that Australian government regulations can not protect animals from extreme suffering in the live export trade.

A recent episode of 60 Minutes has captured public attention and the political agenda by airing dramatic video footage from Animals Australia, showing the fate of Australian animals in the live exportAnimals Australia, showing the fate of Australian animals in the live exportanimals in the live export trade.

BREAKING: Live export cruelty too distressing to release publicly has been documented in Vietnam by Animals Australia investigators, where exported Australian cattle have been «sledgehammered to death».

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

These are just some of the last terrifying moments suffered by animals sold into the Australian live export trade.

But while the Australian government allows live exports to continue, animals continue to suffer.

Amid the latest controversy surrounding shipments to the Middle East - ignited by video footage provided to 60 Minutes by Animals Australia which has an agenda to ban live exports - federal Labor took the opportunity to attack Barnaby Joyce on agricultural «bipartisanship» saying the former Agriculture Minister rejected it four years ago.

Mr Joyce has previously described ESCAS as making Australia «a clear world leader in the welfare of exported live animals» due to statistics that showed from a performance report that 8,035,633 livestock were exported with just 12,958 animals — or 0.16 pc — experiencing a potentially adverse animal welfare outcome.

A statement from the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources - the live export industry's «independent regulator» - said Animals Australia provided new information, including video footage, on April 9 this year, alleging ESCAS breaches in Qatar.

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.

Live exports should be banned, and every slaughterhouse should have C.C.T.V. camera's, countless examples of beating animals with sticks, punching, kicking etc have come to light, isn't it enough that these creatures have endured «factory farming» and cruel transportation.

Agriculture Minister David Littleproud has rejected a call from within the federal government to phase out live exports amid an animal cruelty scandal.

It has been repeated troubled by leaked footage showing terrible conditions on live export ships and animal cruelty prior to slaughter.