Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

http://www.animalsaustralia.org/take_action/festival-of-sacrifice/

This week marks one of the darkest times on the animal welfare calendar as the Festival of Sacrifice commences in the Middle East. Tragically, hundreds of thousands of exported Australian animals will be amongst the millions of animals who are sacrificed during religious celebrations at the end of the Hajj.

In the same way that Christmas has become the peak time of animal suffering in the West with vast numbers of factory farmed animals slaughtered for Christmas celebrations, the Festival of Sacrifice is the worst time of animal suffering throughout the Middle East.

Islamic teachings speak to the importance of humane treatment of animals, but the sheer numbers of animals bought and sacrificed inevitably leads to cruelty on a massive scale as the welfare of individual animals is forgotten.

It is common practice for purchased sheep to be bound, shoved into car boots or loaded onto the back of utes, before suffering a terrifying death on the morning of the Eid; their throats are cut whilst fully conscious, often by inexperienced slaughtermen in private premises or by exhausted abattoir workers who are working at ten times their normal capacity.

It was evidence obtained by Animals Australia investigators of the brutal treatment of Australian sheep in Egypt during this festival that forced the Federal government to ban the live sheep trade to Egypt. Despite similar graphic evidence being documented in other Middle Eastern countries, the Federal government continues to allow animals to be exported to the region.

Please click here to call on your local Federal member of parliament to use their power to urge Prime Minister Gillard and Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig to ban the cruel live export trade.

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SAV Comment:

Live animal exports is one of the most disgusting abuses of animals that can be imagined. I have personally been involved with live animal exports from the UK for well over 20 years now, and have seen the untold cruelty firsthand that this business creates. I, on your behalf of all UK anti-export campaigners, wish animal friends at Animals Australia every success in their campaign to stop the untold suffering of animals exported from Australia to the Middle East.

One thing can be assured; in the end they will be victorious.

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