Live sheep/meat animal export protest news/halal killing

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People against Cruelty in Animal Transport

(an organization based in Western Australia)

are conducting a fund raising campaign to

help raise money to advertise nationally

against the live animal export trade.

 

Many animals are shipped overseas from Western

Australia live

as meat animals as

well as from other ports around Australia.

 

Anyone wishing to donate to the expansion

of PACAT into a national body in Australia

and also to help pay for advertisements opposing

the live animal export trade, please send

donations to

People Against Cruelty in Animal Transportation

P.O. Box 152,

South Fremantle,

Western Australia 6162

 

PACAT has a web site at

http://www.pacat.org

 

A major aim of PACAT is to replace the live sheep/animal export trade

with

frozen carcases. The live sheep/animal export trade

is cruel to animals and you can read about this on the PACAT web site.

 

To read an example of cruelty in the halal practice of killing

animals in many muslim countries, read the following article.

 

 

Cruel slaughterman boasted he sold chefs diseased meat

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The International Express newspaper

(The weeks news from Britain)

Tuesday January 14th, 2003

 

An animal trader who bragged he sold diseased

meat to restaurants during the foot-and-mouth crisis

also indulged in horrific slaughterhouse cruelty.

Undercover investigators videod Michael Hawkswell

boasting that he transported infected food.

 

He claimed he could supply cows, lambs, goats, deer; pigeons

and peacocks - often to Asian caterers whose food he knew

Would be heavily laced with spices - but the animals were killed with

brutal disregard for their suffering, a court heard.

 

Hawkswell,27,from Ripon, Yorkshire, and his partner Isap Lakha, 67, of

Dewsbury, who both admitted to cruelty and slaughterhouse offences, were

warned By the Harrogate court they faced jail when they returned for

sentencing.

 

The pair set up a slaughterhouse in Londonderry, North Yorkshire, to

slay animals using Halal methods - Islamic dietary needs. Ten goats died

in agony. They should have bled to death after having their throats cut

but the blade was so blunt several attempts had to be made by " sawing "

with the knife.

 

Mike Butcher, chief of RSPCA's Special Operations Unit, said: " We

believe they were selling infected meat in restaurants.

 

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