stranded export sheep / already 4000 dead because of heat!

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the dire consequences of meat-consumption are really mind boggling!

 

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" Phil Smith (CIWF Press Office) " <ciwf

<ciwf

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:48 PM

CIWF challenges heartless Australian Government to deal with

stranded export sheep

 

 

> NEWS  RELEASE

>

>

> Tuesday, 16 September 2003

> Compassion in World Farming Limited

> Tel: +44 (0)1730 233 904

> +44 (0) 7771 926 005

> Fax: +44 (0) 1730 260 791

> e-mail: press

>

> CIWF challenges heartless Australian Government to deal with

stranded export

> sheep

>

> Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) is calling for the Australian

Government

> to take urgent action to relieve the suffering of the sheep stranded

> on-board ship in the Persian Gulf in temperatures of over 30

degrees.  The

> 57,000 sheep were exported from Fremantle in mid-August.  Having

been

> rejected by the Saudi authorities due to disease concerns, they now

have no

> buyer and no destination and have been at sea for seven weeks.

>

> Joyce D'Silva, CIWF Chief Executive, says:   " Already nearly 4,000

sheep have

> died on the Cormo Express, mainly due to heat exhaustion.  This is

a crisis

> situation.  These sheep must now be humanely euthanased either by

getting a

> team of vets on-board and, if that is not possible, then they must

be

> returned to Australia to be humanely despatched there.  

>

> " CIWF has been inundated with calls and emails about these sheep.  

The

> Australian Government's temporary suspension of the live export

trade to

> Saudi Arabia is cynical tokenism.  We join with caring people here

and in

> Australia in calling on the Australian Government to ban its live

export

> trade today. "

>

> Australia exports around 6 million live sheep and 1 million cattle

each

> year.  In 2002, over 73,700 Australian export sheep and 2,000

cattle died

> during journeys to the Middle East and Far East.  This latest

disaster well

> may result in equivalent figures for 2003.

>

> - ENDS -

>  

> NOTES TO EDITORS

>

>  A media briefing on the Australian live export trade is available

from the

> CIWF press office.  CIWF is calling on its supporters to write to

the

> Australian High Commission and to join in a protest outside the High

> Commission in the Strand at 1.00pm on October 2nd (World Farm

Animals Day).

> Updates on this situation will appear on our website -

www.ciwf.co.uk.

 

 

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