Animals Australia has exposed yet another example of live-exported cows being cruelly slaughtered by clubbing. A lot of cows (a quarter of a million!) are exported live to Vietnam every year.
Sledgehammers are used, but this is not a case of "one clean blow". They take lots of blows, whilst the animal is in agony.
This was reported last year by Animals Australia, and the Australian exporters and the Australian Government made promises to look into it. But nothing was done, and on rechecking this year, the same terrible practices are continuing.
See:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36547683
Similar exposés have occurred elsewhere - e.g. with EU exports of live animals to Africa and the Middle East. See http://www.euractiv.com/section/science-...m-animals/
What is upsetting in this case is that the Australian Government, having been alerted for two years running of serious abuses, with photographic and documentary evidence, absolutely refuses to make a ban on exporting live animals to Vietnam for slaughter there. Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has ruled out an export ban.
So the sledgehammering goes on, for now....
PS New Zealand banned live export of animals in 2007 - so if that country can do it, why not Australia?
Sledgehammers are used, but this is not a case of "one clean blow". They take lots of blows, whilst the animal is in agony.
This was reported last year by Animals Australia, and the Australian exporters and the Australian Government made promises to look into it. But nothing was done, and on rechecking this year, the same terrible practices are continuing.
See:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36547683
Similar exposés have occurred elsewhere - e.g. with EU exports of live animals to Africa and the Middle East. See http://www.euractiv.com/section/science-...m-animals/
What is upsetting in this case is that the Australian Government, having been alerted for two years running of serious abuses, with photographic and documentary evidence, absolutely refuses to make a ban on exporting live animals to Vietnam for slaughter there. Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has ruled out an export ban.
So the sledgehammering goes on, for now....
PS New Zealand banned live export of animals in 2007 - so if that country can do it, why not Australia?
