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Imagine you are a sheep. You were born in Australia, a country where sheep are iconic. You become part of Australia’s live export industry. You are pushed off the land, forced onto a truck or railroad car and take a long drive to the huge ship awaiting your arrival. You are stuffed together in close quarters with little freedom of movement.
Shuttled off the transport vehicle onto the gangplank, you and your sheep mates are again forced to live in crowded conditions, this time below deck. The air is stifling, the ship moves constantly with the waves and your balance is becoming affected. The trip takes two weeks before your hooves feel dirt beneath them again.
Now the Horror Begins
You heard some rumors you were being transported to a land called Kuwait. And there is a religious holiday about to be practiced there. You are the centerpiece — literally.
Eid-al-Adha translates to Festival of Sacrifice. It represents the biblical story of when God intervened to prevent Abraham from sacrificing his son. Hundreds of thousands of Australian animals are slaughtered every year during this festival. Thanks to Australia’s live export industry.
Lyn White from Animals Australia — an active animal welfare organization advocating for a ban on live export of animals to the Middle East — traveled to Kuwait last month. She documented the abject cruelty Australian sheep endure.
Take a look at the photos.
Warning: The video is graphic and depicts animals being inhumanely handled and slaughtered. Don’t let that stop you from seeing the truth.
Imagine you are one of the sheep in this video. Your legs are tied with barbed wire. You are dragged on the ground and tossed into the boots (trunks) of cars for rides to your final destination – to be slaughtered in the name of God. Some are slaughtered right on the street in full view of each other, a practice that is forbidden by Islamic rule. Their blood flows in the streets like a stream.
In 2008, the documentation of identical abuses in Egypt enabled Animals Australia to see a ban on live export of Australian animals to Egypt. The 2010 Kuwait investigation revealed the same abuses. They are now asking for the same ban for Kuwait.
What You Can Do
Sign the petition telling Australia to stop allowing this animal abuse.
Australia has a new agriculture minister who is open to listening to animal welfare issues. Contact Joseph Ludwig:
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600
Phone: (02) 6277 7200
Email: senator.ludwig@aph.gov.au
Tell him to stop allowing the export of live animals to the Middle East. The animals sent there suffer a cruel and inhumane death. Tell Mr. Ludwig that is unacceptable.
Go to the auto form to email Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard and let her know your dissatisfaction with the exportation of live Australian animals to the Middle East where they are slaughtered inhumanely.
Read more: animal cruelty, animal welfare, animals australia, australias live export industry, cattle, Eid-Al-Adha, festival of sacrifice, kuwait, sheep
Three sheep stuffed into a trunk last month in Kuwait: Animals Australia
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US should help him
SO glad to hear it. Thx for the update.
I hope there was no abuse going on there to train that dog to do that!!
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+ add your ownSurely efforts should also be made to educate the Kuwaitis in order to end this dreadful suffering.
please stop the abuse of the poor amimals in egypt kuwait and outher countrys stop stop it now you scums
Many years ago ny forebears (in the UK) shipped live cargo to Australia (basically the poor, few were criminals by todays' standards). This was a dreadful thing to do and lacked anyform of human morality, it is part of a darker past. Are Australians really so quick to forget? Surely all living creatures deserve humanity.
lawlz...religion.
time to hire some bullies and sic them on them.
they use the internet right? or is it banned?
for realz. we should try it
Again, it is the treatment of all animals that needs to be addressed,
This is horrible, they wouldnt like being treated like this and we moan about how we are treated in airplanes on long flights, thoses animals must be so stressed and the people doing this slaughtering are stupid because the animal stressing like that ruins the meat so what is the point.
animals were put on this earth to be treated in this manner. Let go of ignornant ways.
THIS IS 2011 WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CIVIILIZED
Es terrible pues no solo es una masacre tremenda sino que las hacen pasar por una tortura en la forma de trasladarlas: arrastrandolas por el suelo, por las orejas y tirandolas de mala forma.
Too true, Martha. It's a hard call; trying to stay informed so you are not living with your head buried in the sand but trying to maintain beauty and peace in your daily life.
There will come a day when each of us will answer for the blood on our hands.
One can only read so many Care2 articles, before it becomes too much. On my way to the toilet to vomit.
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