On the wharves of Port Adelaide, an animal welfare crisis has been unfolding.
A run down live export ship (actually a 28 year old converted car carrier) hit mechanical trouble when it set out for the Middle East with 67,000 sheep on board and was forced to return to Adelaide after just one day at sea. Trapped on the ship and crammed into tiny pens for over a week, 300 sheep died on board.
After a last-minute protest last Wednesday by Animals Australia, Unleashed members and around 70 locals, the sheep were finally offloaded and sent to a feedlot north of Adelaide.
Then on Saturday, as sheep were still being offloaded, more than 300 people gathered again at the docks to demand these sheep be shown some mercy. They've been through so much already! It's unthinkable that the live exporters still want to ship them back to the Middle East where they will have their throats cut while fully conscious!
Adelaide really stepped up on ultra short notice and I'm pretty proud of my hometown right now. But we still don't know yet what the fate of these poor confused sheep will be. We will be keeping our voices loud for them and I hope you will too.
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God forbid they go on to the Middle East where they will endure more suffering, and torture. Not the mery of a quicck and humane death. That is only possible here in Australia, as is being proven to us time and time again.
Of course there is no 100% guarantee that ALL our abbatoirs and their people adhere to our animal welfare laws, but most definately we are the lesser of the two evils and the animals have an enormously better chance at a less traumatic slaughter.
Please, Julia Guillard (our Gov't), step in and up to reduce the suffereing of these sheep on this ship. And start the change towards a more humane future for ALL of Australias livestock!
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Please check out my thread in the forum about how our protests impact the exporters.
Today I heard a woman say 'I wish I could do more than just stand here'...so, I hope this brief insight into exporting costs can give some hope to those who fear that no one is listening and that they're not doing enough.
We'll never forget, we'll never stop...and we do in fact make a difference! xoxoxo
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