#live export

[kickasslamb]

Should Live Animal Exports be Banned? Have Your Say! | Dear South Africa

South Africa exports thousands of live animals by sea each year, mainly cattle to Mauritius and sheep to the Middle East. Stop Live Export S

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[acti-veg]

I'm not at all going to deny that this happens, but how common is it that pigs fall off of slaughterhouse trucks? I feel like a lot of sanctuaries have at least one pig that fell off one.

For reference, where I live a lot of trucks carrying pigs pass by and they use metal walls with just enough bars for ventilation. I assume they also individually seperate the pigs from what I can see of them, so it's very hard for pigs to jump off or escape them.

The chances of this happening to any individual transport are probably low, but when you consider quite how many pigs are transported to be fattened or slaughtered every day, it becomes common enough that a lot of sanctuaries have a pig who they have acquired this way.

Sometimes they are piglets born while in transport and they slip through the bars because they are very small. Sometimes a truck will not be covered on top but will have a high well or bar at the top, that a larger pig can occasionally get themselves over and fall into the road. Pigs are also quite strong, so they can sometimes push their way through where there is a large gap in the bars or through a gate. There have also been cases where they just haven’t been secured properly.

There are also times where “fell off a truck” is a euphemism for an animal who has been directly liberated from a factory farm. This is more common with young pigs as an adult is extremely difficult to move. I’d say most of the time though, we’re talking about animals who literally did fall off or leap from a truck on-route, it very much does happen and you can find videos of it if you give it a search.

[heartlandians]

Happy Sunday Q&A WEEK 8. Chat with Jenn Grant & Jann Arden & Michelle Morgan. Visit horseshit.ca to support the campaign to stop the export of live horses for human consumption. 

[drferox]

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.

[veganerudition]

Cognitive dissonance is being pro-animal agriculture but anti-live export because apparently a cow being in a pen on a boat is exponentially worse than a cow being in a pen on the ground.

[tumblingxelian]

Petitions

Keep Botswana a Safe Haven for wildlife. So no to European demands for Trophy Hunting! #care2 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/tell-a-friend/31362339

The National Trust: Revoke Land Use For 'Trail' Hunts #care2 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/tell-a-friend/32923772

I just signed this petition on OrganizeFor with @ColorOfChange. Will you join me? #O4 https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/tell-vegas-pd-release-names-of-officers-that-assaulted-nfl-player-michale-bennett?source=twitter-share-button via @ColorOfChange

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[acti-veg]

‘Dying like flies’: A million chickens die on way from farm to abattoir each year

Whistleblower says birds are dying ‘in a pretty rough way’ from heat stress and lack of water on journeys in England and Wales

Around one million chickens are dead on arrival at slaughterhouses in England and Wales every year, according to data collected by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and analysed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Guardian.

[acti-veg]

Spanish report calls for killing of more than 850 cattle on pariah ship

More than 850 cows that spent months aboard a ship wandering across the Mediterranean are not fit for transport anymore and should be killed