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Upgrade to Whyalla facility now in pipeline
Since 1992, RSPCA South Australia has called the facility at 7 Cook Street Whyalla home. Surrounded by barbed wire and built out of concrete besser blocks, the building has resembled more a fortress than an animal shelter (in fact, it actually was a bikies fortress in a former life).
Thankfully, the old eyesore is about to get a long-overdue facelift, with Chief Executive Officer Paul Stevenson announcing plans to upgrade the facility within the next 12 months.
“It’s well and truly beyond its use-by date, and we would like to get the ball rolling on this as soon as possible,” explained Paul.
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Cruel bad and ugly: debunking Australia’s live export industry
Frightened livestock are prodded and yelled at as they are herded up a steep loading ramp into a live export ship. A ship is a totally unnatural environment for farm animals but the stress they feel now is just the beginning.
The New Zealand Government, which banned the export of live animals for slaughter in 2007, announced on 14 April 2021 that – from 2023 – the export of all live animals (including dairy cattle and livestock used for breeding) will end.
But for Australian livestock, the suffering continues – and much occurs ‘out of sight’.