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Posted by: margecd

31st May 2011 02:53pm

Oh dear! why can't we have out australian cattle humainly slaughtered here in Australia?


Comments 7

eugenie
  • 20th Nov 2012 03:38pm

Money & Greed. Most Australians cant afford to buy lamb its so expensive here so they can be sent overseas to die horrific deaths

goanna
  • 11th Nov 2012 03:25pm

Best we all turn vegan leaving the poor animals alone to live their lives without being slaughtered. I hardly eat meat and now prefer to turn vegetarian.

Moonwarrior
  • 3rd Nov 2012 01:13am

I live near Fremantle in WA and after living so many years in the country and seeing the cattle trucks (as well as the sheep ones) come up this way on the way to the ships that will take them to their doom it sickens me to the stomach that it is still being done.
The animals not only suffer the road trip which might take hours to finallyr each the port city then there is the unloading and then the ocean voyage which can take awhile to get to where they need to delivered to, then there is the unloading into the trucks and then the final destination and the rest is history so they say.
My uncle use to be a slaughterman when the abbatoir was working in Fremantle and he prepared the meat for the local market, but when it came to the live export it sickened him.
Marge it is all money orientated now.

ranga
  • 25th Sep 2012 12:32pm

I have worked with horses and cattle my whole life and knowing from a very young age that they are being slaughtered inhaumanely makes me sick to my stomach. Cattle has been a way of life throughout Australian history, as one of the wealthier countries we should be making more of an effort in our approach to cattle slaughter.
The few abbattoirs around where i live, are disgusting places that i wouldnt send my worst enemies too. However, they are far better than places such as indonesia where they are brutally tortured before finally being killed. If Australia was to simply up their standards im sure more aussie farmers would be happy to use Australian resources rather than sending our money overseas! I personally believe the government seriously needs to rethink what they are doing to our economy.

Sammbo
  • 16th Oct 2012 07:11pm
I have worked with horses and cattle my whole life and knowing from a very young age that they are being slaughtered inhaumanely makes me sick to my stomach. Cattle has been a way of life...

Extremely well said!

Your last paragraph is the answer, once we educate the overseas markets to accept Australian killed meat.

That is up to the Government to pressure on the Indonesian importers.

Halal slaughtering is up there with killing whales for scientific research.
It is bullshit!

Luuuuu
  • 4th Dec 2011 01:19pm

It is so sad that everything comes down to the almighty dollar. It amazes me how so many people are either ignorant of the fact that all animals have feelings including those who know but simply just ignore it for convenience sake or just simply don't care.

I went from being a vegetarian to a vegan in February this year and am so happy that I don't have to wonder anymore if what I am eating has suffered in any way whatsoever

Analog6
  • 17th Jun 2011 04:26pm

Costs are the only reason. We used to have export abattoirs, including one in the NT that served the Asian areas, but the rent, electricity and labour costs meant the meat was so expensive it was unsaleable.

Economics must come before animal welfare, after all, or how could our big businesses survive!

It sickens me too Marge.

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