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Federal Labor has effectively committed to end live sheep exports with its agriculture spokesman, Joel Fitzgibbon, telling an Adelaide radio station the party does not believe there is a future for the sector.
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«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.
«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.
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.
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.
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 locations.
This export company, year after year, has filled ships with sheep knowing that the vessels will turn into ovens when they reach the heat and humidity of the Middle East summer.
With the terrible non-financial costs and risks now visible, are we willing to pay the financial cost of banning live sheep exports?