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The Hon. John Howard
Prime Minister of Australia
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Dear Mr Howard,

I am appalled at the suffering inflicted on the 7 million Australian animals exported live each year. It is immoral that acts of cruelty and methods of slaughter which are illegal in Australia are tolerated as soon as these animals leave our ports.

The current fiasco involving the "Cormo Express" is just the most recent in a long history of disastrous mismanagement, incompetence, neglect and indifference to suffering.

With every exported animal thousands of Australian jobs in the meat industry and downstream processing are also exported. Many of these are in rural areas where there are few alternatives as a result of the closure of local abattoirs; live export has directly contributed to the economic demise of many rural communities and their significant social dislocation.

I demand that the Government immediately begins a wide ranging Inquiry not just into the “Cormo Express” incident, but into all aspects of the live export trade, and set a time frame for phasing out the live animal export industry.

I am not prepared to support any political party which permits live animal export.

This inhumane trade is uncivilized and totally inappropriate for Australia today.

Yours sincerely,

Name:
Address:

www.liveexportshame.com

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