NSPCA and SA Muslim Halaal Trust both take up the fight against live ex in South Africa

The NSPCA is the lead applicant in a case, to be heard in early August, seeking to have the High Court permanently ban livestock exports from South Africa, due to alleged animal health and welfare violations during two previous such shipments.

Marcelle Meredith, executive director of the NSPCA, said that “ethics and live exports go together like chalk and cheese”.

Shaykh Achmat Sedick, director of South Africa’s Muslim Judicial Council Halaal Trust, said the trust also opposed the shipboard livestock exports.
“From an Islamic perspective, the condition of the animals should be tayyib, which means that when the animals are transported, it must be done with utmost care in order not to [physically] harm [or stress] the animal [in any way], which is not the case. Therefore, it violates the requirements and standards needs for the animal to be considered tayyib […] for halaal certification.”

See: https://www.farmersweekly.co.za/agri-news/south-africa/no-such-thing-as-ethical-live-sheep-exports-says-nspca/