#animals australia

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Animals Australia 🎶🐷🎵

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♡ Australian Bushfire Charity Sticker ♡

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Acting PM demands answers over alleged payment for live export cruelty footage

The Federal Government will look into new allegations about the way footage was obtained and used in a campaign by activists to close the live export trade.

Some of you will be aware that Australia has a massive debate going on right now about Live Export (mostly sheep, but extending to all livestock) after Animals Australia, an animal 'protection’ organisation (a term which is deliberately vague) was accused of paying people for footage of sheep suffering on live export ships. And this accusation goes on to state that some people actually induced more suffering on those ships, by turning off ventilation, for example, in order to get ‘better’ footage, for which they were paid.

There are multiple other articles about this topic on the web and in newspapers, but the one I linked is free to access. If you research this yourself, you will find a lot of agricultural newspapers have jumped onto this story and are using emotive language, which is no surprise as the agricultural sector had a large stake in live export, not just on a financial level, but on its reputation of good animal welfare. (Australian, anyway. It had been something of a selling point overseas)

The short version: Paying cash for footage of animals suffering provides an incentive to those providing the cash to make those animals suffer, or make them suffer worse than they would have been.

And this is bringing the entire ‘expose’ into question when that whistleblower has unexplained deposits going into his bank account to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.

This threatens not only the potential change to animal welfare laws, but also the credibility of Animals Australia, and future attempt at change, and Animals Australia’s charity status.

It was a very dumb and questionable decision by whoever is behind the money, and we will have to see how this plays out, but it risks turning into a ‘boy who cried wolf’ scenario in regards to all future animal welfare whistle blowing.

And whistle blowers have to exist, or have the potential to exist, because without the possibility of them industries can become corrupt when money is involved... but the offering of money for footage of animals suffering turns animal cruelty into an industry too.

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Apparently, cows casually chew on pythons in the Australian outback. Makes one question how the Australian food chain works.

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