Not exact matches
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In this Business News podcast Mark Beyer, Matt Mckenzie, and Tori Wilson discuss Synergy and renewable energy, the Atlas Iron takeover, live
sheep exports, Bill Shorten's Perth visit, a new report on Kwinana, and the debate over training and apprenticeships.
In this Business News podcast Mark Beyer, Matt Mckenzie, and Tori Wilson discuss Synergy and renewable energy, the Atlas Iron takeover, live
sheep exports, Bill Shorten's Perth visit, a new report on Kwinana, and the debate over training and apprenticeships.
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.
Even if those changes could be managed, she said, it's unlikely they would be
in place for the start of the high - risk
export season
in July, meaning that live
sheep exports to the Middle East during the northern summer may be blocked.
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.
Graphic footage exposing the inhumane slaughter of 21,000 Australian
sheep in Pakistan aired on ABC's Four Corners programme last night, causing the live
export industry to voluntarily...
Live
sheep exports would drop to $ 252 million, their lowest level
in 20 years, due to disruptions to the unloading of
sheep in Bahrain
in last August.
Liberal MP Sussan Ley says she remains «unpersuaded» by arguments
in favour of live
sheep exports.
Exports last year the industry group put at $ 670 million
in beef and $ 240 million
in sheep meat would get a boost from the addition of 15 beef abattoirs to the list of permitted exporters and the establishment of new protocols around the slaughter of Australian
sheep and goats, it said.
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.
«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.
Mr Jabbour said the current issue concerning live
sheep exports was coinciding with Eid events
in many parts of the Islamic world and the religious festival of sacrifice wasn't only confined to the Middle East region.
Footage of
sheep transport conditions have shocked many, but live
export has a long history
in Australia.
Temporary bans on live cattle and
sheep export have undermined confidence
in the industry, driving property prices down and diminishing banks» willingness to lend for long - term improvement.
The New Zealand - based firm has a market share of 27 %
in the country's
export sheep meat segment, but recently it has been facing pressure as a result of a drop
in meat prices, so has been exploring offshore markets to bolster its profits.
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 industr
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 industr
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 industr
in Kuwait at the Shuwaikh abattoir and the Al Rai livestock market to the attention of the Federal government and live
export industry.
Animals Australia has also lodged complaints with the Department of Agriculture based on two subsequent investigations
in Jordan (
in October 2013 and January 2014)-- with evidence presented of ongoing breaches of ESCAS involving the cruel handling and slaughter of Australian
sheep outside the supply chain
in Jordan — and implicating the same live
export company.
In June 2013, Animals Australia investigators documented evidence showing widespread breaches of Australian live export regulations by the exporter Livestock Shipping Services (LSS) in Jordan, with Australian sheep being illegally sold and slaughtered outside of approved supply chains in 26 different location
In June 2013, Animals Australia investigators documented evidence showing widespread breaches of Australian live
export regulations by the exporter Livestock Shipping Services (LSS)
in Jordan, with Australian sheep being illegally sold and slaughtered outside of approved supply chains in 26 different location
in Jordan, with Australian
sheep being illegally sold and slaughtered outside of approved supply chains
in 26 different location
in 26 different locations.
In June 2013 Animals Australia was documenting evidence of live export breaches in Jordan when information was supplied about the illegal onward trucking of Australian sheep from Jordan to Lebanon — a country that is not approved to import Australian animal
In June 2013 Animals Australia was documenting evidence of live
export breaches
in Jordan when information was supplied about the illegal onward trucking of Australian sheep from Jordan to Lebanon — a country that is not approved to import Australian animal
in Jordan when information was supplied about the illegal onward trucking of Australian
sheep from Jordan to Lebanon — a country that is not approved to import Australian animals.
In the 216 years since European occupation and colonization of Australia, huge changes have been wrought upon the landscape, many of them driven by an agriculture that has largely been oriented towards production of commodities — wheat,
sheep, beef, dairy, sugar — for
export.
In June 2013 Animals Australia investigators travelled to Jordan after receiving information about the deliberate, widespread and systemic on - selling of Australian sheep occurring in breach of Australia's live export rule
In June 2013 Animals Australia investigators travelled to Jordan after receiving information about the deliberate, widespread and systemic on - selling of Australian
sheep occurring
in breach of Australia's live export rule
in breach of Australia's live
export rules.
Mr Littleproud says he was shocked by whistleblower footage showing
sheep dying
in their own filth during a 2017 live
export trip where 2400
sheep died on board.
A vessel awaiting another Emanuel
Exports shipment, the MV Awassi Express, currently sits
in port
in Fremantle waiting to ship over 50,000
sheep to the Middle East.
More than 650,000 Australian
sheep have been
exported to Qatar
in the past 12 months, the majority of which would have been killed
in this abattoir.
A recent study by Pegasus Economics estimates only around $ 9 million a year
in price premiums (averaging $ 2000 per
sheep farmer) would be lost to producers if the Fremantle
sheep exports were banned.
The SA Government is promising to keep watch as a live
export ship loads its first shipment of
sheep in the state since horrific images of suffering animals were made public, but protesters are calling for an end to the practice.
«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.»
Every year, the global live
export industry transports millions of live cattle,
sheep, goats and other animals around the world — just so they can be slaughtered for their meat
in destination countries.
In April, an animal advocacy group called «Animals Australia» released footage of conditions that resulted in 2,400 sheep deaths aboard an export ship last Augus
In April, an animal advocacy group called «Animals Australia» released footage of conditions that resulted
in 2,400 sheep deaths aboard an export ship last Augus
in 2,400
sheep deaths aboard an
export ship last August.
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.
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.