Please read - You're the Voice and the only voice they have
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:27 am
You're the Voice
Last year the Gillard government gave the live export industry a second chance that it didn't deserve — and reopened the live cattle trade to Indonesia despite overwhelming calls from the community for the trade to be permanently banned.
Australians were led to believe that abattoirs would be required to meet Australian standards of slaughter ensuring that the animals were at least treated in a humane manner. Obviously this is not the case. To see an animal being tortured prior to being killed is reprehensible in the extreme. The animal so desperately tries to escape he manages to get his upper body over a 7 foot high barrier from a standing position.
To then find out that the animals were being dismembered before they were actually dead – what does this tell you? That we are dealing with a nation of people that have scant regard for life. And yet knowingly we are still sending our livestock to their country for slaughter rather than having the animals slaughtered here and exporting the carcasses.
We were promised that a new 'regulatory framework' would protect Australian cattle from ever again being abused in Indonesian abattoirs, but new footage from Indonesia reveals how hollow that promise was. Knowing that local abattoirs would be warned to be on the lookout for Australian animal cruelty investigators — Animals Australia engaged an Indonesian investigator to visit three abattoirs in Jakarta.
What he documented there over three nights has again shocked and appalled Australians and has conclusively proven that the new 'system' will in no way protect Australian cattle from cruelty on a nightly basis. Animals Australia has lodged an official complaint with the Gillard government highlighting that the evidence provided contains 61 different breaches of the basic standards expected from workers in abattoirs — including not checking that cattle were dead before they were being butchered.
A country that is unable to offer protection to its animals – has little chance of offering protection to its children, or elderly or disabled IMO. At the end of the day they too are merely animals.
We the people of Australia elect our representatives to ensure that fair play and justice for all is maintained. We expect that the face that Australia presents to the world is one of humanity, and compassion as well as the ability to speak up in defence of what is right.
If you feel as I do please use your voice to do just that and speak out on behalf of those who have no voice with which to speak.
One voice in the wilderness is merely a whisper, one hundred voices become a murmur, one thousand voices becomes a song. Let’s remember the words of John Farnham who sang – You’re the voice
You're the voice, try and understand it
Make the noise and make it clear.
We're not gonna sit in silence
You can contact your local senator by using this link – You’re the voice.
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Memb ... en=0&ps=10
or contact Julia via this link
http://www.banliveexport.com/1/#takeAction
Thank You fellow poets - do hope you will help and become the voice for our Australian livestock either by contacting your senators or writing of the plight our livestock are facing.
Cheers
Maureen
Last year the Gillard government gave the live export industry a second chance that it didn't deserve — and reopened the live cattle trade to Indonesia despite overwhelming calls from the community for the trade to be permanently banned.
Australians were led to believe that abattoirs would be required to meet Australian standards of slaughter ensuring that the animals were at least treated in a humane manner. Obviously this is not the case. To see an animal being tortured prior to being killed is reprehensible in the extreme. The animal so desperately tries to escape he manages to get his upper body over a 7 foot high barrier from a standing position.
To then find out that the animals were being dismembered before they were actually dead – what does this tell you? That we are dealing with a nation of people that have scant regard for life. And yet knowingly we are still sending our livestock to their country for slaughter rather than having the animals slaughtered here and exporting the carcasses.
We were promised that a new 'regulatory framework' would protect Australian cattle from ever again being abused in Indonesian abattoirs, but new footage from Indonesia reveals how hollow that promise was. Knowing that local abattoirs would be warned to be on the lookout for Australian animal cruelty investigators — Animals Australia engaged an Indonesian investigator to visit three abattoirs in Jakarta.
What he documented there over three nights has again shocked and appalled Australians and has conclusively proven that the new 'system' will in no way protect Australian cattle from cruelty on a nightly basis. Animals Australia has lodged an official complaint with the Gillard government highlighting that the evidence provided contains 61 different breaches of the basic standards expected from workers in abattoirs — including not checking that cattle were dead before they were being butchered.
A country that is unable to offer protection to its animals – has little chance of offering protection to its children, or elderly or disabled IMO. At the end of the day they too are merely animals.
We the people of Australia elect our representatives to ensure that fair play and justice for all is maintained. We expect that the face that Australia presents to the world is one of humanity, and compassion as well as the ability to speak up in defence of what is right.
If you feel as I do please use your voice to do just that and speak out on behalf of those who have no voice with which to speak.
One voice in the wilderness is merely a whisper, one hundred voices become a murmur, one thousand voices becomes a song. Let’s remember the words of John Farnham who sang – You’re the voice
You're the voice, try and understand it
Make the noise and make it clear.
We're not gonna sit in silence
You can contact your local senator by using this link – You’re the voice.
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Memb ... en=0&ps=10
or contact Julia via this link
http://www.banliveexport.com/1/#takeAction
Thank You fellow poets - do hope you will help and become the voice for our Australian livestock either by contacting your senators or writing of the plight our livestock are facing.
Cheers
Maureen