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This week, people from around the world are joining together to tell the Australian Government that the live export trade is cruel and that it can no longer be tolerated.

I hope you will help by writing to the Australian Embassy to let them know you oppose live exports and that this trade is damaging Australia’s reputation as a country with good animal welfare standards.

Australia is the largest exporter of animals for slaughter and each year millions of Australian sheep are loaded onto ships and transported long distances, simply to be slaughtered. These terrified sheep spend up to three weeks on a crowded ship. There is little room to move and an unfamiliar diet of pellets means many animals may not eat for the entire journey.

During the journey they will suffer from heat exhaustion, stress and disease, and in 2007 alone over 35,000 Australian sheep died during sea voyages to the Middle East.

For sheep that survive the journey, a much crueller fate awaits them in the hands of countries that have no animal welfare laws.

Despite Australian industry claims that it is helping improve welfare standards in the Middle East, it is common for sheep to be horrendously handled and slaughtered in ways that would not be legal nor tolerated in many countries.

Australia already has a growing trade in chilled meat from animals that have been humanely transported and slaughtered in Australia and this makes the transport of the live animal unnecessary and all the more cruel.

We need your help to persuade the Australian Government to work towards replacing its cruel live animal trade with the humane alternative of chilled and frozen meat exports.

Please write to the Australian Embassy in your country and let Australia know that their cruel live export industry must end. Click the link below to take action.

http://www.wspa.org.uk/handlewithcare

Thank you.

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