Kelvin Thomson MP: Live Animal Export Parliamentary Speech 30/5/11

Last night, the Member for Wills, Kelvin Thomson, called for the suspension of live cattle exports to Indonesia.

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Well done to Kelvin Thomson for speaking out. You have the support of the Australian people in your efforts to ban this brutality.

[OneiroscopeB]

A politician with ethics? I thought they were extinct.

[stunningoutburst]

Please label all Halal products. Vegemite is Halal.

[SoulBeat123]

THANK YOU Kevin Thompson! For "getting it" and conveying the FACTS so well.

Thanks to politicians like you speaking up for the millions of voiceless animals, and decent, good hearted, intelligent Australians ... in parliament! We know it is only a matter of time, and your honourable, intelligent grasp on this matter is certain to help it be sooner.

[Operationjugular]

PROTEST RALLY ON THE 14TH OF AUGUST IN EVERY CAPITAL CITY IN AUSTRALIA TO PUT AN END TO LIVESTOCK EXPORTS.....

[djc0248]

@MrsStraubs1 Footage is NOT old, Indonesia should bend over! It's Australian Cattle and the MLA who built those Torture boxes and "trained" the heathens, Australia should NOT "bend" to Muslim demands! If they woant our meet talks should have been held with Muslim Clerics and a Fatwa issued allowing stunning, some Muslims leaders will allow this, self regulation and the corrupt Indonesian Govt along with the ignorant non Union labor advised by the MLA bending to Muslims caused this!

[MrsStraubs1]

This is not able to be fixed quickly and may take two years to get back to normal. A stun gun is humane and if Indonesia will bend a little and use the method in all abattoirs everyone will be happy. I know the footage was old footage but these government departments and activists will stoop to anything for the sympathy vote of people who don't know any better.

[MrsStraubs1]

You will not ever be able to completely stamp out animal cruelty in foreign countries. And it would be naive to think that all abattoirs in Indonesia will adhere to our standards if we don't have a plan in place to constantly monitor how the cattle are treated. I come from a cattle station and love cattle and cattle industry. The point I was making is that the government don't give a damn about there own people/constituents.

[djc0248]

The MLA and Farmers who have caused millions on animals to suffer in Countries where there are NO welfare Laws should be ashamed to call themselves Australian!

Truth is the live export trade forced many thousands of AUSTRALIANS to loose their jobs due to the closure of Abattoirs in NT and WA! Farmers didn't care about those workers! Re opening these Abattoirs and building new ones [as NZ ] would create thousands of jobs, Farmers loose nothing, and animals could be slaughtered Humanely! DAH!

[djc0248]

@MrsStraubs1 No Farmer will be forced off property, No animal should die, The Govt has just given you people $30 Million in aid in order that this does NOT happen! The Govt did NOT take your livelihood away YOU people sold your souls when you all signed up for the the export trade years ago, and being contracted to the MLA YOU are responsible for the Indonesian and Middle East Disgrace! Why can't Farmers get some backbone, follow NZ they banned live export 4 years ago NO one went broke!

[djc0248]

@MrsStraubs1 $ corners footage is from 201, animals exported to Indonesia and middle East have been abused for years and suffer on the ship too! The Countries in question are MUSLIM, they demand Halal slaughter=NO stun gun, throat cut, fully conscious, Muslim payer said over it, hung on hook by the leg till it dies in agony! The MLA built the slaughter boxes and trained the workers in Indonesia with aid from Australian Govt tax payers money!