* Live export ban has been lifted. Prestunning is not mandatory and the cruelty will continue. Slaughter without prestunning happening in Australia

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Animal welfare in Australia is a joke.

On Thursday 26th January 2012, in 42°C (107.6° F)  (in the shade) at a feedlot near Perth West Australia, thousands of sheep were loaded into trucks and transported approx 60 minutes to the Port of Fremantle.

The animals remained in the trucks at the Port in the searing heat with little to no breeze for an average 90 minutes before being unloaded onto the Ocean Shearer.  

Panting in sheep is a sign that they are enduring immense stress and suffering extreme distress.

On the ship they joined sheep whom had been loaded at Adelaide approx 5 days before.

Australia doesnt have a law regulating transport and handling in high – extreme temperatures.

Australia allows animals to be moved and handled regardless of how blistering hot the day. Given the live export industry is self regulating it appears clear that during a heat wave animal welfare is non existant.

More photos

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Sydney Morning Herald live cattle trade index. Excellent background.

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Australia cannot be trusted when they say we have the highest welfare standards:

Same horrific animal mistreatment routinely occurs in Australia as it does in Indonesia, Turkey and Middle East.

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Australia fails to comply with even the very basic OIE recommendations which state that electric shock prodders should not be used on sheep and goats. Footage taken at the Port of Fremantle during late 2010 and 2011. The use of prodders are part of routine handling..

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