Humane Chain logo.
Source: www.humanechain.org.au
Although not ‘pop culture’ related in the least, The Humane Chain is an important organisation I urge all to get involved with.
The Humane Chain initiative is run to promote awareness for the terrible treatment sheep recieve during exportation. A statistic that may surprise you is that every year four million Australian bred sheep get exported to the Middle East. Death is a common factor for these innocent sheep, with heat stress, little care and disease all consuming the animals. The sheep often starve to death, as the little pellets the handlers call ‘food’ are not recognised by the sheep to eat and thus starvation takes tens of thousands of sheeps life, as this is the only form of nutrition the sheep are given.
The journey often takes weeks to get to various places across the world – and whilst onboard, a single sheep can be one of up to 100,000 animals confined to the ship. They are often kept in crowded, poorly lit dens, and there is three sheep for every 1 sqaure metre for the long and frightening trip. It is truly an alarming statistic.
The Government refuses to investigate this mistreatment because, as to date, the mortality rate per ship has not reached over 2%. It doesn’t sound like much, but the number of deceased animals reaches into the fifty thousands. And just because the sheep have survived the journey, does not mean they did not suffer.
All those cruel things are just what happens on the journey alone – once in the Middle East the sheep are likely to be treated with cruel handling, and are often slaughtered without stunning. There is photographic evidence of sheep being trussed, which involves the tieing together of their legs and feet, and being transported on the roof of cars, in countries such as Jordan, where temperatures can reach 50 degrees in the summer months.
The Humane Chain aims to create awareness of this horrible exportation. Please join online now and join the Twitter page to make a difference and help prevent this sereve treatment of innocent animals.
An example of the horrendous treatment sheep recieve in the Middle East.
Source: http://www.liveexport-indefensible.com/
Dubai – Sheep lying defenseless in boot.
source: www.animalsaustralia.com
For more unforigivable photos, click here.
(Source: Bigdayout.com.au)
