Animals must be fit to load?

2/7/2015

ASEL Vessel Preparation and Loading 4.2 Required outcomes:
(1) Livestock are healthy, fit to travel and comply with importing country requirements.

If the escaped steer shown on the Animals Australia website was really loaded and not rejected, then this is a clear breach of ASEL. But .....what does ASEL matter. Legislation is there to be broken and other escaped cattle have been swum in and been loaded....so there is a clear legal precedent...namely, that no-one is going to observe the law or prosecute its infringements.

7 Comments

Hazel Evans

4/7/2015 02:41:39 pm

This trade has been fraught with insurmountable of cruelty in it's worst form, since the beginning. That means decades of suffering. No one will convince me otherwise that the Live Animal Export Trade should be stopped here and now.

Carol webb link

4/7/2015 04:19:55 pm

this is utterly disgraceful that poor steer should never have been reloaded

carole webb link

4/7/2015 04:22:24 pm

that poor steer should never had been reloaded

Glenn Phillip Nix

5/7/2015 06:17:02 am

Once a animal has been in a export holding yard as i understand it , it is not allowed back into the general population .It was a case of destroy the animal or export it .

VALE

5/7/2015 06:46:24 am

Hi Glenn,
No that is not correct. The Australian Standards for Export of Livestock states :
S3.17 Any livestock identified at unloading as being distressed, injured or otherwise unsuitable for export must be marked by a permanent method and isolated from the rest of the consignment. A record must be kept that details identity, the method of treatment or euthanasia and disposal of all rejected animals."
Thus ASEL clearly allows for treatment, which could only occur once rejected animals are transported back to the feedlot. There would be no reason why an Australian animal from a designated Australian export feedlot could not return to that feedlot for treatment if rejected at loading.

Glenn Phillip Nix

5/7/2015 02:30:54 pm

Its not going back to the farm or wildlife sanctuary , or a petting zoo though is it .It may go on the next boat or direct to slaughter .Once in a quarantine facility thats it .All the ARA want it set free .Not going to happen is it ?

VALE

9/7/2015 01:43:35 pm

Hi Glenn, Sorry for the delay in response (working to save clients' animals does take precedence over a blog-site reply for a volunteer organisation).
In Australia, individual animals are protected by animal welfare law throughout their lives regardless of whether they end up exported, slaughtered for meat, euthanased or dying of old age. These welfare laws must be upheld regardless of final outcome.

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