Greens Deputy Leader and Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has expressed grave concerns over news the department has approved yet another live export voyage, amid deaths on the MV Bahijah which remains in limbo in WA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUtterly irresponsible that as animals suffer and die on one stranded live export ship, the department approves yet another voyage. If this doesn\u2019t show the absolutely glaring disregard for animal welfare by the government, then I don\u2019t know what will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe industry only cares about their profits and dead animals are a mere inconvenience to them. It seems the government are doing their dirty work for them by approving yet another live export vessel for clearly dangerous travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnimals are sentient beings, not cargo to be sent off on perilous journeys and offloaded wherever and whenever it\u2019s convenient for export corporations, while the government protects industry profits at the cost of animals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSheep and cattle are dying on the MV Bahijah in the scorching summer heat, meanwhile we have a department not taking action and a Minister who\u2019s missing in action. Absolutely unacceptable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Minister has the power to get the animals off this ship right now. He must do so immediately and reject the application to send them back to sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe government already made one gross error by approving the MV Bahijah trip through a conflict zone and now they are repeating their mistake! This decision is a stain on our collective conscience and shows the horrific disregard for animal welfare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor must legislate an end date now and start the shut down of live exports. Sheep can\u2019t wait for the next term of government, they can barely wait another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greens Deputy Leader and Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has expressed grave concerns over news the department has approved yet another live export voyage, amid deaths on the MV Bahijah which remains in limbo in WA. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cUtterly irresponsible that as animals suffer and die on one stranded live export ship, the … Continue reading “SECOND LIVE EXPORT VOYAGE SHOWS THE CRAVEN LIVE EXPORT INDUSTRY PREVAILS OVER ANIMAL WELFARE CONCERNS”<\/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-25083","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\/25083","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=25083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25084,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25083\/revisions\/25084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}