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Old September 24th, 2003, 05:43 AM
AlmostBob
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Default Hey Australia - How Many of The 60,000 Sheep Did You Tourture or Kill Today?

A Suadi bought the sheep b4 they left Aus, and organised the shipping,

the ship is Dutch
**** on them instead

After they left Australia there isnt much the Aus govt can do legally execpt
complain

"Rainer Wolfcastle" wrote in message
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| I guess they papers are saying 50,000 today. Did you murder 10,000
| yesterday?
|
| Lying & cruel Aussies.
|
|
| http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/...ies_952215.htm
| http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...082991895.html
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|
| SYDNEY, Australia -- Animal welfare groups are demanding that more
| than 50,000 sheep marooned aboard a ship in the Persian Gulf be
| humanely slaughtered as soon as possible.
|
| The sheep had originally been destined for Saudi Arabia but
| authorities there refused to allow the ship to dock, citing an
| outbreak of disease among some of the animals on board.
|
| That was six weeks ago.
|
| Now, with temperatures soaring aboard the Dutch-owned MV Cormo
| Express, Australian animal welfare groups are demanding the animals be
| humanely killed before they succumb to infection and heat exhaustion.
|
| "It's going to become a floating charnel house soon enough," RSPCA
| Australia president High Wirth said, adding that the situation on the
| boat had become "really desperate."
|
| The case has attracted widespread media attention in Australia with
| newspapers dubbing the vessel "the ship of death."
|
| Saudi authorities refused to accept the sheep because some of the
| animals were suffering from a low-grade infection known as scabby
| mouth disease.
|
| The percent of the shipment infected is disputed by Australia, which
| has since sought to find an alternative port for the sheep -- even
| offering them for free to anyone in the region willing to take them.
|
| So far, that offer has drawn a blank.
|
| In the meantime Australia has suspended shipments of livestock to the
| Middle East pending efforts to negotiate a deal with the Saudis
| guaranteeing that all future exports will be unloaded.
|
| No entry
| On Tuesday Pakistan became the third country to refuse to accept the
| sheep after authorities in the United Arab Emirates also blocked entry
| to the vessel.
|
| That prompted to animal welfare groups to call for the sheep to be
| swiftly and humanely killed to end their suffering.
|
| "The only way to end the suffering is to have them dead. It's either
| do it on board or find a port...and send them to an abattoir," RSPCA
| Australia's Hugh Wirth said.
|
| According to another welfare group, Animals Australia, the ship has a
| "captive bolt gun" on board, which could be used to stun the sheep
| before their throats are cut.
|
| The group's executive director, Glenys Oogjes, told Reuters the
| carcasses could then be fed into a destroyer, or macerator, on board
| and the remains could be mixed with water before being pumped into the
| sea in international waters.
|
| Australia is the world's largest exporter of live animals, with Saudi
| Arabia being its principal market.
|
| The trade is worth millions of dollars a year to Australian farmers
| but animal welfare groups say it causes unnecessary suffering to the
| animals during their transportation and after their arrival in the
| Middle East.