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In December Animals Australia's investigators returned to the Middle East...
The live export industry’s public defense of its trade is in tatters as a result of recent evidence obtained by Animals Australia’s investigators in the Middle East.
The many hours of footage obtained revealed the depths that the live export industry is prepared to stoop to protect their profits.
Their claims that cruel treatment of animals is 'isolated' and that training courses are 'successful' are graphically revealed as false by the overwhelming evidence documented.
Watch the video and see for yourself.
Australia exports millions of sheep and thousands of cattle each year to the Middle East where there are no laws to protect them from acts of cruelty.
Five separate investigations by Animals Australia in the Middle East have documented terrible abuses of Australian animals. Sheep are regularly bought by individual buyers for home slaughter. They are trussed with rope and shoved into car boots in a region where temperatures are regularly above 40°C in Summer. In abattoirs and private homes sheep face a terrifying slaughter, as their throats will be cut whilst fully conscious.
Millions of people in the Middle East believe that Australians approve of their treatment of animals due to our willingness to export them to their country.
Rather than inspiring much needed change, we are reinforcing long-held beliefs that such cruel treatment of animals is acceptable.