Cows cruelly slaughtered in Vietnam

[LPC]

Animals Australia has exposed yet another example of live-exported cows being cruelly slaughtered by clubbing. A lot of cows (a quarter of a million!) are exported live to Vietnam every year.

Sledgehammers are used, but this is not a case of "one clean blow". They take lots of blows, whilst the animal is in agony.

This was reported last year by Animals Australia, and the Australian exporters and the Australian Government made promises to look into it. But nothing was done, and on rechecking this year, the same terrible practices are continuing.

See:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36547683

Similar exposés have occurred elsewhere - e.g. with EU exports of live animals to Africa and the Middle East. See http://www.euractiv.com/section/science-...m-animals/

What is upsetting in this case is that the Australian Government, having been alerted for two years running of serious abuses, with photographic and documentary evidence, absolutely refuses to make a ban on exporting live animals to Vietnam for slaughter there. Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has ruled out an export ban.

So the sledgehammering goes on, for now....

PS New Zealand banned live export of animals in 2007 - so if that country can do it, why not Australia?

[Tobi]

This is sad and horrific and every bit as bad as eating dog. Basically Australia DOESN'T CARE! And that, many people must find shocking.

[Catslave.]

This has been all over our news live export of any description has to be stopped,I'm totally against the way they transport live animals they're treated badly before they even reach where they are going.

[Catherine]

Animals Australia has been working for years to bring this issue to the government and the public. It is hard to believe that the government still refuses to act.

The animals suffer on the journey and the slaughter conditions are horrific. Everyone knows this is true. It violates rules of humane animal treatment. So why does the government fail to act.  Why does the EU allow the inhumane practice of live export.

I can only assume that someone is making plenty of money because of the export and doesn't want to give it up.

They should be ashamed. The people who make the decisions are not fit to hold public office.