Dickie, you are free to contact MLA and obtain copies of their
annual reports. Farmers pay 10s of millions of $ a year in levies.
That makes up most of MLA's budget. The R&D funding part is matched
$ for $. Thats spent on all sorts of research projects.

The annual reports also mention how much each year is spent
on improving animal welfare in the Middle East, its been running
for quite a few years now and amounts to many millions of $.

Farmers are the only ones running such a project. The rest of
you just talk.

http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=262266

http://www.mla.com.au/HeaderAndFooter/AboutMLA/Howwearefunded/default.htm

Where are the dates and figures I requested?

I note , as is typical, you have ignored and failed to comment on the barbaric Muslim slaughter games they play during their festive occasions, using our livestock as cannon fodder.

Wash your mouth out, Yabby.

I trust you sleep well at night!

"Scott Hansen from Meat and Livestock Australia says the film footage contains some of the worst cases of animal cruelty he's ever seen."
http://www.abc.com.au/news/justin/?page=7

It would be a fair guess that any brass going to the ME

in the form of of improving animal welfare would end up greasing

some local officials palm by way of bribes.

Not the most honourable folks to start off with otherwise they'd not be cruel to these animals to start with.

It would be safe to say that ingrained cruelty to man, woman and animals is not a condition that is going to be fixed by throwing money at the problem.

Token gestures to justify whats essentially animal cruelty cant stop the facts of how they treat and kill meat animals.

PALE, Why is it the moonbat leftists are not in on this like they are on questionable human topics?

Scotty

The left would no doubt remain silent particularly in WA which is the largest exporters of live animals.

However, I no longer see any difference from a rock ape on the left or one on the right.

Having said that, I advise my closest relative is a Liberal politician therefore I speak without political bias though I would prefer to be able to issue glowing reports on the Libs. Alas I have nothing glowing to report!

Both parties on this issue are dark blots of shame on our nation!

Scotty, your ignorance and arrogance seem to have no limits. Before making
any more stupid comments, perhaps you should inform yourself about the
topic a little. Where are all these Australian meatworkers? Why don’t they
apply for the many jobs on offer in West Australia?

Calling people from the Middle East terrorists, shows your racism. I remind
you that right here in Australia there is plenty of animal cruelty going on,
just go and have a look around some hobby farms. So your high and
mighty attitude is flawed.

If the live trade was shut tomorrow, it would bankrupt farmers and animals
would need to be shot and buried in pits. That’s the reality. Nobody has
offered an alternate, viable solution.

What is clear is that many objecting to the live trade are in fact veggies with
their own agenda of opposing the eating of meat and of farmers farming
livestock in the first place. AA will tell you about the evils of eating meat,
so will Dickie, so will Peta. If farmers go bankrupt, they don’t seem to care, for their
contempt of farmers is fairly obvious.

Your arrogance continues in calling what farmers are doing in the Middle East,
a token gesture. Fact is one has to start somewhere and farmers are the only ones
doing something! All these veggie groups are free to join in and help grow what
farmers have started. There is no reason the projects could not be tripled in size.

So far they have showed no interest, preferring to rattle the donation tins as they
sit by their computers and condemn farmers.

I have made simple, cheap, cost effective suggestions on OLO about what could
be done in the Middle East to bring about changes. No interest from the veggie
groups, it seems they would prefer to get rid of farmers, then help animals
in the Middle East. So where is all this compassion for animals?

Dickie, you are a big girl and as such free to email MLA for exact figures.

dickie, re torture link, isn't this further proof that it is not only Australian animals that go through ritualistic killings and that an education program will do more for ALL such animals than by simply ceasing Australian live exports. Shouldn't it be all animals we are concerned about, not just those lucky enough to be born here. The scrunity associated with Australian animals and Australians deployed there to improve standards, can only lead to better treatment for the animals. If only animal activists would lend a hand on the ground in those countries for real change.