Well yes 579, as is the first time ever that Australian livestock
have been hijacked at the point of a Govt gun. So it is
unprecedented. Thus my point that we need a better plan B, to
avoid these situations, like humanely turning the sheep into
fishfood.

But I remind you that perhaps you should clean up your own backyard
here. Just last week a hundred brumbies in the NW died, stuck in
a station water hole. Wild dogs are ripping Australian animals
to bits every day, dogs that breed on Govt land. Are you rushing
to do anything about that?

No, we'll just pick on farmers as they are an easy target, even
if we haven't the foggiest clue as to what we are talking about.
We'll watch a bit of telly and then we know everything.

What a frigging bunch of Einsteins.

When vegans sneak into foreign abattoirs with cameras and condemn live cattle exports the do-gooders and our popularity craving government escalate the damage with a ban.
Before the ban was imposed we should have considered the following:
1) The northern cattle industry is dependant on live cattle exports and Australian cattle are affordable to the importers.
2) Meat processed in Australia is too expensive for these markets because of our regulatory requirements and labour costs.
3) The importers will soon source alternative supply when Australia stops supply. Indonesia has already done this and will no longer accept Australian live cattle exports after 2014.

Animals Australia, RSCPA, animal libbers etc. should vent their ideals by euthanizing unwanted cats and dogs and avoid the issues such as feral animal control and live animal exports.

If Australians really want less live exports, then they should take
note of what meat processors like Roger Fletcher are saying. He
needs our Govt to help break down tariff barriers, so that markets
are open. He needs the Govt to allow the import of seasonal labour,
in times of peak production.

Those are the sorts of useful things that Govt can do, to create
win win situations for all, to make our meat industry able to
compete. The result would be far less live exports.

But just shutting the industry down, so that farmers can go and dig
holes to shoot their livestock, or simply let them starve up north,
is hardly wise policy making, despite the protests of our urban
housewives and uninformed green politicians

There is a difference between wild animals and sheep.
All i know is the horrible deaths these sheep went through can't be taken lightly.
To just sweep it away will not solve anything, it will be on TV again.
To keep it off TV we need real solutions, or else no more live export.
Use your Meat meal, fertilizer. The english eat mutton. It should be in the butcher shops here.
We need real solutions to the problem. Not just take another chance and see what happens.
Boxed and telescoped meat was going to Iran in the 70'S. Until live export took over.

*The english eat mutton. It should be in the butcher shops here.*

Its in Coles here, but not much, as there is not much demand. The
English joined the EU, locking out most of our meat, bar a tiny
miserable quota. So despite 400 million people living in the EU,
we are largely locked out, due to the inability of our politicians.
Yet every second TV advert is for German cars, kitchen appliances
and all the rest. Trade barriers!

Iran does not buy our live sheep.

You seem to live in your own little world of 40 years ago, 579,
forgetting that the world has changed. Its called old farts disease :)

>>Its in Coles here, but not much, as there is not much demand.<<

I've never seen it in my local. They do have weird stuff in from time to time - they had quail the other day and duck a few weeks before that - but it seems pretty random. The only sheepmeat I've ever seen is lamb. I'm hoping for capretto.

Cheers,

Tony