Australia suspends live cattle exports to Indonesia (08 Jun 2011) ☠WARNING: Graphic Images☠

Indonesia: New Zealand can replace Australian beef
Posted: 08 June 2011 1229 hrs

JAKARTA: Indonesia said on Wednesday it could buy more beef from New Zealand after Australia suspended live cattle exports due to concerns over animal cruelty.

Agriculture ministry livestock department chief Prabowo Respatiyo Caturroso said the Indonesian government was not yet satisfied that a video showing brutal abuse of Australian cattle in Indonesian slaughterhouses was authentic.

But he said the government was determined to improve butchering practices wherever cruelty was discovered.

"We have to respect the Australian government's decision to stop its live cattle exports to Indonesia," Caturroso told AFP.

"We're fully aware that we have to improve animal welfare in our abattoirs. Our investigators are still checking the accuracy of the video on cruel treatment of livestock here," he said.

Australia earlier Wednesday suspended all live cattle exports to Indonesia for up to six months after a public outcry when shocking images of mistreatment in slaughterhouses were broadcast on state television.

Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig said the trade, worth A$318 million a year (US$340 million), would not start again until safeguards were in place to ensure animal welfare in Indonesia.

The footage broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation included kicking, hitting, gouging of eyes and breaking of tails of some animals as Indonesian workers attempted to force them into slaughter boxes.

Australian cattle account for about a fifth of Indonesia's rising beef consumption, or around 500,000 head a year.

Indonesia has enough cattle of its own to make up the difference but they are not in commercially viable herds, Caturroso said. The export ban will would spur local graziers to lift their game, he added.

"Surely, if Australia stops the export, New Zealand is ready to export more beef to Indonesia," he said, adding this would mean frozen beef as New Zealand does not export cattle for slaughter.

"I hope it won't give a significant impact as our population's beef consumption is relatively low. It's only 2.4 kilograms (five pounds) per capita annually."

Indonesia's parliament passed a law on livestock welfare in 2009 but it has not been implemented and no sanctions are in place for abattoirs that mistreat animals, despite the mainly Muslim's country's concerns about hala butchering.

-AFP/ck

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[djc0248]

@xxahoohooxx Why is it every Video from Indonesia and Arab Muslim Countries treat animals with such disrespect? Perhaps because in the Muslim religion Women are NOT treated with respect, Young girls as young as 9 are forced to undergo circumcision? And before anyone says "it's a Cultural thing" read the British Medical reports of 2000, to 5000, Muslim girls going through it this Summer! Halal slaughter is Inhuman RSPCA want it banned ! Muslim =Halal=Animal torture~!

[Operationjugular]

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

[frozenflames82]

Stupid BOGANS.... now WHY your government begging the Indonesian to re-open their market for your filthy cattle? COZ YOU NEED THEIR MONEY BITCH*

[Colour1832]

Stupid bitches, burn in hell! What is it with you asians? Can't treat woman bad enough, so you torture animals too? What next? Rape plants?

[waratahNSW]

Two bills to permanently end livestock exports have FAILED to get support in the House of Representatives.

Greens' MP Adam Bandt's bill to immediately end live exports, and independent MP Andrew Wilkie's bill to phase out the trade in three years, were only supported by the two MPs.

Labor and the Coalition BOTH VOTED AGAINST the bills, and no-one crossed the floor despite some backbenchers previously raising concerns about the trade

[brittanybloomer13]

Check out my video to see video footage from the NSW Ban Live Protest rally. It shows the publics views towards this cruel act.

[waratahNSW]

The federal Member for Farrer, Sussan Ley, has issued an open letter to the RSPCA accusing it of inaccurately representing her position on the live export trade.

Sussan Ley says the RSPCA's campaign will NOT, encourage her to vote for the Wilkie and Greens' bills when and if they come before Parliament.

[djc0248]

@xxahoohooxx I have spent some time reading about Islamic religion, fact is they demand Halal slaughter [Animal must face Mecca, then fully conscious so it can hear a Muslim prayer it has it's throat cut, it's then hung by the leg on a hook until it dies in agony in order to "bleed out" These are the "Strict" Muslim rules that cause Australian exports! Indonesia has NO animal welfare laws, NO Unions, NO standards because they are Muslim, look at Arab videos=same!

[xxahoohooxx]

Any one can label themselves a religeon doesn't mean shit if they don't follow it, treat animals with disrespect and purposly hurt them your going to HELL....ALAH LOVES ANIMALS