The ship has well and truly sailed on live sheep export
Every time the live sheep exporters face criticism (which is often), we see the same old response.We’ve changed, they say. They’re not the industry they once were. They’ve pulled their socks up and started to take animal welfare seriously, and the dark days of animal welfare disasters on board live export ships are over. Just give us one more chance, they say, and see how much better we can do.
Sounds great, right?
Pity it’s not true.the truth is that we’ve been hearing “we’ve changed” for decades.
And the truth is that very little has changed, other than the PR tactics.
We’ve seen carefully stage-managed ‘open house’ tours on a stationary boat in Fremantle Harbour (before it has even commenced the arduous journey … )
We’ve seen one solitary on-board journalist, permitted on a meticulously performed journey, at the coolest time of the year … and to the objective viewer, even that looked awful.
https://www.rspca.org.au/blog/2023/ship-has-well-and-truly-sailed-live-sheep-export
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