Austrailia to Middle East: live transport of animals Pt: 1/2

Raised on large, remote farms, Australian sheep enjoy space to roam and very little human contact.
But due to Australia's live export industry, millions of Australian sheep suffer a fate far worse than death every year. They are destined for a horrific journey to slaughter overseas - herded onto a packed truck and driven across the country, sometimes in scorching heat.
It's then onto a ship where conditions are much worse. They're terrified and will spend up to three weeks on the crowded ship. With around three sheep to one metre square, there is little room to move and an unfamiliar diet of pellets means many animals may not eat for the entire journey.
Stress, heat-exhaustion, injury and disease result in the death of around 1,000 sheep on each ship of 100,000. Those that survive the journey arrive in countries with no or unenforced animal welfare legislation where they are often transported, handled and slaughtered in the most barbaric way.
It's just cruel.
It's also completely unnecessary. Australia already exports chilled meat to many countries it sends live animals to. Replacing live export with a growth in the trade of chilled meat, humanely killed as close to the farm as possible, will benefit both animals and Australia.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• WSPA
• cruelty
• animals
• CIWF

[CDLver]

On the contrary, waratah, it is you who has no respect -- for the sheep whom you butcher, whose fleece you forcibly take, and when that animal no longer serves YOUR purpose, you then cart him off on a 3-week gruesome journey to the Middle East where he will be savagely slaughtered.

And that is how the selfish Australian sheep farmer treats the sheep who've given him his livelihood, which allowed for the farmer to provide for his family.

[ncfo20]

This is sick

[bugsyiloveyou]

Cd war is so bad about the Australian wool industry we so called mutilate the animals so they don't get fly struck we crutch animals so they don't get fly blown and dock them for the same reason it is just something that has to be done for the animals well being would you rather have your tail put into elastic bands till it drops off wen your young or die a slow horrible painful death being eaten from the inside out by maggots wen your older

[bugsyiloveyou]

"tje sheep can endure injuries" we have a sheep at my school that we rescued off the side of a high way three months after she had been sent from a farm only three hours away it is thought she jumped off the truck this shouldn't happen the animals should not be able to do this( but I'm kinda happy she did she means every thing to me I trained her and I show her I live her with all my heart )

[mindthestep6]

people with no respect for a creature deserve no respect from me!

[StopAnimalSufferings]

This is exactly why I DO NOT WEAR anything made out of "WOOL"!! I will NOT cooperate with this cruelty and abusive behaviour!! 

[trialsisno1]

@CDLver ur a dick cd i worked as a slaughterman of sheep ,we treat them with respect,we shoot them make sure there dead then bleed them.then as you say we STEAL there fleece and make yummy chops out the rest. get a life cd

[trialsisno1]

@CDLver if u dont mules them they get fly blown and infected , i guest thats a much better way to live

[trialsisno1]

@CDLver do you get a haircut mate, same fucking thing

[CDLver]

@trialsisno1, the men and women who raise the innocents knowing full well what their gruesome fate will be, and the governments who allow such vulgar acts of exploitation against helpless being are the savages.

The kind and compassionate people of Australia oppose this obscenity.

[trialsisno1]

@CDLver were not savage the arabs are the cunt who treat them like shit

[kaykobra]

@waratahNSW What have to do the courage, the intelligence and the respect you were talking about with the brutal slaughter of a gentle, helpless and exhausted animal? This is plain cruelty, this brought the humanity so low. If that's the courage, intelligence and respect you have then I wonder why were you born? Anyway, I wish to you all the "best" you wish for the farm animals. And I hope you'll soon be choking with...of course, a chop of meat.