Good News indeed

Former Liberal minister Sussan Ley will soon introduce a private members' bill to phase out live sheep exports to the Middle East.

Ms Ley, a former farmer from NSW, said she was becoming increasingly incredulous at the "business as usual" approach by exporters to sheep deaths aboard their vessels.

"I want to see this live sheep trade permanently cease," she told Sky News on Thursday.

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Failed Health Minister now looking for folk to vote for her?

The problem with doing this is the nations who buy from us will find another supplier nation which does not care.  Get around that one!

Either way I am not voting Liberal.  Others may do so and enslave themselves in the process but some of us know what the current lot are, who funds them and whose bidding they do.  May the Lord protect us from the mentally challenged.

 

An email from

In a few weeks, your Federal MP and state Senators will be heading back to Canberra as Parliament begins to sit again.

Live export will undoubtedly be a hot topic.

That’s why we’re making it easy to contact your MP and Senators now, to ensure they know exactly how you feel about the continued exposure of suffering in the live export trade.

Contact Your Representatives


We know it might not feel like you’re achieving much, when you’re writing yet another letter to a politician.

But’s it’s an incredibly important and valuable thing to do.

Time and again, contacting your MP and Senators has proven to be crucial to achieving change and improving animal welfare. They need to hear from you.

After all, your MP and Senators were voted in by you and your community. They are there to listen, and it’s their job to speak on behalf of you.

Let’s ensure all Australian MPs and Senators know exactly how Australians feel about ending this suffering.

Let them arrive in Canberra knowing their constituents will be watching and waiting for them to act.


https://www.rspca.org.au/campaigns/live-animal-export/take-action

HAVE YOUR SAY

thanks for the link suze.  we people are the ones with the power to stop this torture.

Thaks Suze emails nad phone calls  made -- hard to get onto the phone -- they seemed to have it off the hook for some time

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it’s been a huge day. This morning, we announced that the RSPCA would pledge $500K towards ending the suffering of Australian sheep on long-haul live export voyages, in an effort to kick-start the nation’s move away from the cruel trade.

Animals Australia also pledged $500K, for a combined total of $1 million head start on stopping live export cruelty.

But we had barely stepped away from the microphones when we heard the Australian Labor Party was making an historic announcement.

The Labor Party, through its Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon, has committed to ending live sheep exports, and focusing instead on building a greater and more sustainable trade in Australian meat.

It’s a momentous day in animal welfare, with one of our major parties acting on the concerns of the community and making such a strong commitment.

Australians have been rightly horrified by repeated revelations of cruelty in the live export trade, and you’ve responded in unprecedented numbers.

The evidence is clear, and the pending review – if conducted properly – will reflect that existing evidence.

This announcement acknowledges that the way ahead is to chart a rational and measured course beyond the inherent cruelty of live animal exports.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Visit our website now to write to your local MP – even if you’ve already done so.

If your representative is with the Labor Party, thank them for their commitment and tell them you thoroughly support their decision.

If your representative is with another party, encourage them to support an end to live sheep exports and advocate for this position among their colleagues.

As always, thank you for your support, and for caring about animal welfare.

the australian greens also have a policy to phase out live animal exports - sheep and cattle. 

the cattle export trade in increasing.  we need to stop this cruelty on a global scale.

Lab grown meat 100 years in the making now a 'decade away'


A study by the University of Oxford found a viable clean meat industry, when compared to traditional farming, could result in up to 96 per cent lower greenhouse gas emissions, 96 per cent less water and between 7 and 45 per cent less energy.

The meat you eat in the future might come from a plant, or a laboratory, eliminating the need to slaughter animals.

let's hope this "meat" will soon be available to buy.

SAw that imitation meat etc on Landline -- I do not think it would win me over -- never lnow what the hell is in it -- I am not a big meat eater in any case -- I did not see -- Soylent Green -- but have heard about it -- and it would not surprise me one bit

Remember the movie Soylent Green?

Yeah! A great sci-fi film starring Charlton Heston from the early 70's where supposedly soy and lentil based nutrition source  later turned out to be made out of harvested humans.

Amazing how these science fiction movies promote research.

Also, science  FICTION always turns out to be SCIENCE FACT

You got it Suze, if the elderly people chose to end their life, they were brought into a room and shown magnificent pictures of nature and would peacefull drift off, never forget that ending.  If only. lol

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