Dear All For a sheep who survives the disease, lack of shelter and neglect that are common in the Australian wool industry, some of the worst abuses will happen to her after she is no longer considered productive for wool and is herded into the back of a lorry bound for a port city hundreds of miles away. The long and tragic journey that begins that day will often end weeks later when her throat is slit by a butcher in Africa or the Middle East. This is live export, a trade thats built on the intense suffering of thousands of sheep cast off by Australian farmers. Will you please help us stop the misery of sheep and other animals by making a special gift right now? Take the story of one sheep sold into the live-export trade. For an entire day – or longer – she is jostled in a crowded lorry without food or water. Scared and desperately weak when she arrives at the port, she is moved with hundreds of other sheep onto a feedlot and offered only pellet food rather than the grass to which shes accustomed. The diet wreaks havoc on her digestive system, causing stomach upset and diarrhoea that will weaken her further during the long journey yet to come. Eventually, she is herded onto a huge, multi-tiered ship crammed full of thousands of other sheep much like her and is forced to share a tiny space - three miserable sheep per square metre. There is little room to move during the entire three weeks or more that the vessel may be at sea even as the enclosed ship deck becomes extremely hot, and the accumulation of urine and faeces from the thousands of animals on the ship stings her eyes. Sheep are dying around her – some from heatstroke and others from starvation because of their inability to adapt to or digest the odd new food. In a bid to contain the diseases that run rampant on the ship, workers often throw the bodies of dead sheep into a large machine that grinds them up and flushes their broken remains out to sea. When the ship docks after this long, terrifying ordeal, she is kicked and beaten by workers eager to get her to waiting trucks destined for nearby live-animal markets. There, she is sold to a butcher who works out of a shack next to the pen that now holds her. Panicked by the bleating and the smell of blood from the other sheep who are being killed around her, she tries to hobble away. Her attempt to flee is of no use as the butcher throws her to the ground and slashes her throat. Tens of thousands of other gentle animals just like her will endure a similarly horrifying journey and death every year. By donating today, youll be strengthening PETAs ability to expose and ultimately stop horrific abuses, such as those I have described here. While the Australian government and live-export industry continue to fight attempts to end the shipping of sheep from Australia to the Middle East, PETA and our affiliates continue to do all we can to save sheep from this abuse. PETA Australia has worked to reveal the hidden cruelty of the industry by creating public service announcements with celebrities and launching a Rock the Boat campaign to reach concertgoers and consumers in Australia. More than 200,000 people around the world have already spoken out against this cruelty by signing petitions directed at the Australian government, and consumer outrage over the live export of sheep is clearly growing. No animal should ever have to endure the hellish conditions of the live-export trade or the terror of its cruel slaughter methods. Please help us save animals lives by donating generously today. Thank you for your compassion and support. Kind Regards, Ingrid E Newkirk Founder PS: PETA is working hard to end the suffering of animals exploited for the live-export trade. Will you allow us to do even more for sheep and all animals with your gift today? peta.org.uk/
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:09:34 +0000
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