AMIEU members say “NO!” to live export at this year’s Labour Day March – photo courtesy of AMIEU“Live exports: butchering Australian jobs and country towns,” reads a placard held by an AMIEU worker dressed as a cow in the back of a mock up live export vehicle. It is an apt description of the trade that is ruining Australia’s Meat processing Industry, exporting Australian jobs and subjecting our animals to intolerable cruelty. In the last 12 months alone, over 1,000 local meat workers have lost their jobs.
Australia is the biggest exporter of live animals in the world and professes to be a leader in animal welfare, but along with each boat load of sheep and cattle leave this country, the Rudd government also sends with it Australian jobs.
Over 62,000 Australians said “NO!” to live exports in our recent campaign with The Body Shop – It’s time the Rudd Government took notice and followed suit.
Exporting animals means exporting our jobs and endorsing cruelty.
Reuben Brand
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GO AMIEU AND WSPA!!! hopefully Rudd will see the obvious in all this.
go WSPA - hopefully one day the world will be vegan and animals will be treated with respect...
Kevin Rudd once condemned animal cruelty when he saw videos of live export. Now he is hiding behind his power and more interested in protecting the producers who support this profitable trade. Shame!
it makes me sick just to look at the pictures, to imagine the fear these sheep must endure , how can we as aussies
who have such strong concerns with animal crulety let our sheep go through such a thing it makes me sick
Peter Dundon said he is concerned at calls to STOP the trade.
If Australia stopped Live exporting, that would force the importing countries in the Middle East, to increase trading with countries like Somalia, Sudan, Pakistan, Iran and India he said.These countries do not have anywhere near the standards we do in terms of shipping practices. I have never seen, and dont know of, any other competing countries in the market here, doing the work Australia is doing in terms of animal welfare.
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