Canberra Protest Against Live Animal Export

The closure of the northern live trade will cause a flood of northern animals into southern states.This will hugely reduce the price of beef in our supermarkets, The more you protest the cheaper the meat and force northern producers to be more responsible for the welfare of their cattle beyond the farm gate.

Swaggie said :

Today’s ‘outraged’ citizens are hand fed another protest to attend, tomorrow will be another cause and yesterday’s was Wikileaks, They’ll then go home having done their ‘duty’ and wait until the next internet ‘outrage’ gives them another cause to support for a couple of weeks..If everyone was so concerned they should be picketing the Indonesian Embassy round the clock and getting their Gvmt to outlaw the practice no matter WHERE the animals are sourced from.

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Today’s ‘outraged’ citizens are hand fed another protest to attend, tomorrow will be another cause and yesterday’s was Wikileaks, They’ll then go home having done their ‘duty’ and wait until the next internet ‘outrage’ gives them another cause to support for a couple of weeks..If everyone was so concerned they should be picketing the Indonesian Embassy round the clock and getting their Gvmt to outlaw the practice no matter WHERE the animals are sourced from.

BimboGeek said :

As a vegan I’m completely unimpressed by this bandwagon.

The people organising the rally are vegans and animal rights activists. They are all about saving the animals. But even if you manage to globally ban live export you’ll still end up with dead export.

Really, what’s the issue here?

Huh? So because you are against killing animals for food, you don’t give a stuff about how much the animals suffer before they get killed? Noice…

You’ve gotta love religion, haven’t you? Jehova says that you have to kill animals by slitting their throats, but leaving the spinal chord intact so that the conscious animal can enjoy every minute of its slow and painful death. Sounds to me like he’s a god with way too much time on his hands.

As a vegan I’m completely unimpressed by this bandwagon.

The people organising the rally are vegans and animal rights activists. They are all about saving the animals. But even if you manage to globally ban live export you’ll still end up with dead export.

Really, what’s the issue here?

toriness said :

BobGrrl said :

Jethro said :

A large part of the problem with the live export trade is the conditions the animals live in whilst on the boats. Obviously with a close trading partner like Indonesia this isn’t a huge issue, but once you start shipping animals off to the Middle East or Africa it is.

Yes and if Australia bans exports to Indonesia, they will have to source their animals from somewhere else, such as South America, which means a longer boat trip.

Which yes points to a larger problem – ie global maltreatment of animals. Are you suggesting Australia ignores this in the interests of making a quick buck? I couldn’t even watch the news item uncovering this torture – call me a bleeding heart liberal if you like, I don’t care, I’m just glad I have a heart – but I have read and heard enough about it to know it’s !**!&#)*@ disgusting and I don’t think our country should have anything to do with it. It’s no different to trade sanctions on a country committing other illegal and immoral acts.

Good luck with the rally, OP.

Agreed. The other people are doing it so I should too argument is pretty weak. Our moral responsibility is with our actions.

BobGrrl said :

Jethro said :

A large part of the problem with the live export trade is the conditions the animals live in whilst on the boats. Obviously with a close trading partner like Indonesia this isn’t a huge issue, but once you start shipping animals off to the Middle East or Africa it is.

Yes and if Australia bans exports to Indonesia, they will have to source their animals from somewhere else, such as South America, which means a longer boat trip.

Which yes points to a larger problem – ie global maltreatment of animals. Are you suggesting Australia ignores this in the interests of making a quick buck? I couldn’t even watch the news item uncovering this torture – call me a bleeding heart liberal if you like, I don’t care, I’m just glad I have a heart – but I have read and heard enough about it to know it’s !**!&#)*@ disgusting and I don’t think our country should have anything to do with it. It’s no different to trade sanctions on a country committing other illegal and immoral acts.

Good luck with the rally, OP.

Jethro said :

A large part of the problem with the live export trade is the conditions the animals live in whilst on the boats. Obviously with a close trading partner like Indonesia this isn’t a huge issue, but once you start shipping animals off to the Middle East or Africa it is.

Yes and if Australia bans exports to Indonesia, they will have to source their animals from somewhere else, such as South America, which means a longer boat trip.

ConanOfCooma said :

It doesn’t strike me as particularly intelligent to support banning live export based on the Indonesian and Middle East issues. There are many, many more countries we export to that do slaughter the stock to our standards, why do you want to punish them for the transgressions of other countries?

To anyone that replies “Well, we want to stop that too, it’s inhumane” – These standards are the ones used by our own country. That means to support the stop of live export, you will also need to support the cessation of the meat industry in Australia. If you are that far out for cow rights, then you probably feel the same about animals in general. In that case, you need to protest about pet shops, nature and God, as they are all pretty cruel to animals as well.

A large part of the problem with the live export trade is the conditions the animals live in whilst on the boats. Obviously with a close trading partner like Indonesia this isn’t a huge issue, but once you start shipping animals off to the Middle East or Africa it is.