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12 JULY 2015 DOGGIERESCUE.COM MAGAZINE

DOGGIERESCUE UNLEASHED
AND DANGEROUS

(With thanks to Animals Australia for their
outstanding and brave work!!)

Compiled by Roland Briefrel CRUELTY AND JUSTICE A CONTRADICTION
OF AUSTRALIAN VALUES

If there was ever a need to highlight the arrogance and Cartoons by
inconsistencies of human behaviour, especially as it Ryley Miller
pertains to animal welfare, then the events of 2015
provide a sense of urgency. This time it goes beyond the
hypocrisy of claiming we love animals as we chow down
on the latest beef burger extravaganza from our
preferred fast food outlet! Yet again, Animals Australia
has been forced to reveal evidence of animal cruelty in
the live animal export trade, this time to Vietnam. In their
report they stated the following (and this might be the

time for little children to return to Winnie the Pooh):

A frightened bull is marched onto a blood soaked kill floor. What is frightening and ought to outrage animal lovers
He is restrained tightly by a rope around his neck. A across Australia, is that the Department of Agriculture
slaughter man stands before him wielding a sledgehammer. was apparently made aware of this killing method in
What happens next can go one of two ways: the animals Vietnam with video evidence in 2013. So what
who suffer critical brain damage after the first strike are happened? Was the export trade halted? Well…no, it
‘lucky’. The ‘unlucky’ remain completely aware of their pain, was in fact rapidly expanded. It appears that
and imminent threat to their lives. They know what’s Australia’s financial position is so dire that we need
coming. The terrified bull pulls away and winces as the the dollars from this trade much more than we need to
sledgehammer is raised above his head for the second ensure that it is humane. In fact, according to Animals
time. And a third. Unable to escape, he bellows loudly in Australia: live exporters have reportedly documented
protest with every strike. He begins to shake violently as he cruelty of their own, apparently in a bid to ‘catch-out’
turns his head and shuts his eyes in anticipation of the their competitors — but it’s unclear whether this
fourth blow. And the fifth... evidence has ever been provided to authorities. In
fact, one industry source was quoted as saying all
Given that this is the traditional method of slaughter of exporters were having “problems” in Vietnam, but that
cattle for meat, it really was inevitable that something like those problems should be “kept between exporters”.
this would happen to Australian animals exported to the
region. Yet we are constantly told by the industry and
parliamentarians that there are rules in place to prevent
such abuse.

These rules, known as the Exporter Supply Chain
Assurance System (ESCAS), simply do not work. Yet trying
to get an admission of this fact from the industry and their
acolyte politicians is impossible, in spite of the industry’s
own admission that the behaviour described above,
happened not once, not twice, but thousands of times over.