{"id":15872,"date":"2022-04-01T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=15872"},"modified":"2022-04-01T00:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:00:45","slug":"live-export-betrayal-will-harm-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/04\/01\/live-export-betrayal-will-harm-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Live export betrayal will harm animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/ban-on-shipping-live-exports-in-summer-months-set-to-be-relaxed-20220325-p5a7sm.html\">reported winding back of the ban on live sheep export<\/a>&nbsp;to the Middle East during the Northern Summer will result in completely avoidable animal death and suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSheep will suffer and die because of this decision. It is a betrayal of the animals and all those who fought hard for the Northern Summer ban just a few short years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile it certainly wasn\u2019t perfect, the Northern Summer ban clearly did provide some protection to Australian sheep from terrible heat stress and mortality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVeterinary and animal welfare experts have repeatedly confirmed that voyages carrying live sheep to the Middle East during the Northern Summer cannot be supported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYet again, the government is folding to their mates in the live export industry for whom profit will always trump animal welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI find the timing of this decision very devious given the current Senate sat for the last time on Wednesday and now we will not have the opportunity to disallow the regulations before the new arrangements commence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPolls repeatedly show that a clear majority of Australians want to see an end to live export. Instead, the government has decided to ramp it up on the eve of an election,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the&nbsp;reported winding back of the ban on live sheep export&nbsp;to the Middle East during the Northern Summer will result in completely avoidable animal death and suffering. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cSheep will suffer and die because of this decision. It is a betrayal of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/04\/01\/live-export-betrayal-will-harm-animals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Live export betrayal will harm animals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15873,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872\/revisions\/15873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}