Kiwis lead the way
The groundbreaking decision by the New Zealand government to ban live export should remind everyone that the Australian government has failed to curb the systematic abuse of animals by live export corporations.
Millions of cows and sheep depart Australia on these death ships every year.
Theyâre forced to live on top of one another, surrounded by a slurry of their own faeces, urine, and water.
Seasick and unfamiliar with the pellets theyâre given as food, many starve to death before reaching their destination.
The horrifying footage from the Awassi Express of panting sheep lying in piles of their own faeces and decaying corpses in 2017 brought home the menace of heatstroke on board live-export ships.