«The live
sheep export trade is essential to the livelihoods of thousands of Australian sheep meat producers.
Not exact matches
The Festival of Sacrifice is responsible for untold suffering of cattle,
sheep and goats — millions of whom have been sold for profit through Australia's live
export trade; closer to home, in the name of Christmas, highly intelligent pigs and turkeys not only experience the terror of slaughter, but entire lifetimes of suffering in factory farms; and sporting events such as bull fights and rodeos still present cruelty as «entertainment»...
«With that in mind, critics of the live
export trade should end irrational and misleading attacks on importing countries that welcome Australian cattle and
sheep, and who rely on Australia as an important source of high quality, reliable and safe protein.
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.
«It's important for Australia to continue our
exports and the destination for (live
sheep exports) is an important destination for Australia in the context of our overall
trade and investment relations with the region.
The event was timed to coincide with the arrival of an
export vessel operated by Livestock Shipping Services which anti-live
exports campaigners are targeting to expose their fears about the
sheep trade continuing during the Middle Eastern summer.
Pressure within government ranks for a ban on the live
sheep trade to the Middle East has increased, with a second Liberal MP calling for the
exports to end.
«As the evidence from five routine
sheep shipments to the Middle East has revealed, Australia's live
sheep trade is consistently breaching OIE guidelines, which Federal live
export regulations, are expected to «meet or exceed».»
«Most Australian
sheep farmers do not
export their
sheep, and those who have supplied their
sheep to this
trade will be feeling very aggrieved today — their trust in the industry and the regulator is in tatters.»
The Guardian reported on May 2nd that Opposition Labor Party leader, Bill Shorten, is now vowing to end the live
export trade before the government review since «Labor sees no future for live
sheep exports.»
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.