Australia And Pakistan Are In A Huge Fight Over 21,000 Dead Sheep.

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Australia And Pakistan Are In A Huge Fight Over 21,000 Dead Sheep.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday demanded that Pakistan investigate and explain the brutal killing of 21,000 Australian sheep in Karachi, a slaughter officials have described as appalling.
The shipment of Australian sheep was sent to the port city after being turned away by Bahrain, with Pakistan livestock officials ordering them to be culled over disease concerns.
Graphic footage of their slaughter was aired by ABC's Four Corners programme on Monday, including images of a man sawing at a sheep's neck before throwing it into a bloody trench.
Other sheep were bulldozed into the pit after being killed last month, but some were seen the next morning still breathing, sparking angry condemnation of their treatment.
Gillard said she had spoken to her Pakistani counterpart Raja Pervez Ashraf at a summit of European and Asian leaders in Laos to express her concern.
"I did raise with the prime minister of Pakistan my concern about the graphic and very cruel images we've seen of the treatment of Australian sheep," she told reporters in Vientiane.
"I explained to him that Australians are distressed to see these acts of cruelty and that I wanted the matter investigated.
"He undertook to investigate the matter ... I was very clear about Australia's concerns, very strong in raising those concerns and very clear that this is something that has distressed the Australian people."
Australia Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig earlier called the slaughter "appalling" and his department disputed that the sheep were unhealthy.
"We do not know the reasoning behind the Pakistan authority's decision to cull the sheep in Pakistan or their choice of the method used," the agriculture ministry said.
"We continue to hold that both the decision and the method used were unnecessary."
Livestock officials ordered the sheep to be culled after they tested positive for salmonella and actinomyces bacteria.
Although samples from the sheep were sent to a British laboratory and came back clean, clearing the meat for human consumption, municipal officials in Karachi rejected the tests.
Pakistani officials insisted the animals were slaughtered in keeping with Islamic practice, but said enquiries would be made.
"As far as we know the culling was done in accordance with the rules. The animals were slaughtered in Islamic manner," a senior official with Sindh provincial livestock ministry said.
"However, we will investigate the reports alleging the Australian sheep were brutalised during the slaughter."
Australian farmers urged against a ban on the live export trade, saying significant improvements had been made in regulating Australia's live export market since a controversy in Indonesia last year.
Canberra suspended live cattle exports to Indonesia for a month last year after a television documentary revealed mistreatment inside its abattoirs, only reinstating the trade under a strict new licensing system.
Australia's National Farmers Federation said "decisive action" had been taken to temporarily suspend exports of sheep to Pakistan and Bahrain while investigations were carried out.
The farming lobby group stressed that Australia was a world leader in animal treatment in exports and warned that banning the trade would see welfare standards fall.
"If Australia was to stop exporting livestock, global animal welfare standards would unquestionably decline," it said.
In a separate development, a US-based animal rights group on Tuesday urged Australia to ban livestock exports to Egypt, where a government-tasked committee is recommending the ears of hormone-treated cattle be chopped off.
Egyptian newspapers say the committee made the recommendation in a bid to rid livestock imported from Australia of hormone implants found in their ears.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals urged Australia's government to ban cattle exports to Egypt to avoid the practice.
Australia's live export trade is worth about US$1 billion a year and employs thousands of people.
Copyright (2012) AFP. All rights reserved.

Australia And Pakistan Are In A Huge Fight Over 21,000 Dead Sheep - Business Insider

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

These people care more about their sheep than we care about our people

 

[Backbencher]

Why would you kill 21000 sheeps in Karachi ??
Koi Pakistan VS Australia cricket match bhi nahi tha

 

[Xestan]

This issue has attracted media attention in Pakistan for some time now. The Livestock department says the sheep were infected with a disease and this was the reason behind the culling decision. We saw some footage of sheep dying of some unknown disease, and then authorities came into action.

My concern is, thousands of these innocent animals have been killed for no reason. If the slaughter was for food, that is still understandable, but if all these lives were wasted, then it's a tragedy, whether they were infected or not. A joint Inquiry should be initiated by the Pakistani and Australian governments to establish the facts.

 

[xdrive]

These people care more about their sheep than we care about our people

Hardly. Youtube the video of it, it's absolutely brutal and disgusting.

Yes they are animals they are meant for consumption, but is partially cutting their throats and then leaving to lay for 30 mintues bleeding out in pain really necessary?

Or burying sheep alive in massive pits?

These are the wrong slaughter practises and these perfectly good sheep were killed for nothing

This issue has attracted media attention in Pakistan for some time now. The Livestock department says the sheep were infected with a disease and this was the reason behind the culling decision. We saw some footage of sheep dying of some unknown disease, and then authorities came into action.

My concern is, thousands of these innocent animals have been killed for no reason. If the slaughter was for food, that is still understandable, but if all these lives were wasted, then it's a tragedy, whether they were infected or not. A joint Inquiry should be initiated by the Pakistani and Australian governments to establish the facts.

It has been found that the reports of them being infected with different diseases are false.

1 report said they were infected with foot and mouth disease, not 1 case of foot and mouth has been recorded in Australia for 100 years.

 

[neokautilya2]

such cruelty..... see dis video n u will feel dat the sheep case was jus nothing

 

[darkinsky]

Hardly. Youtube the video of it, it's absolutely brutal and disgusting.

Yes they are animals they are meant for consumption, but is partially cutting their throats and then leaving to lay for 30 mintues bleeding out in pain really necessary?

Or burying sheep alive in massive pits?

These are the wrong slaughter practises and these perfectly good sheep were killed for nothing

It has been found that the reports of them being infected with different diseases are false.

1 report said they were infected with foot and mouth disease, not 1 case of foot and mouth has been recorded in Australia for 100 years.

these sheep are infected and were dealt appropriately, before those diseased meat could reach to the market they were all cleaned up, next time before sending the biological bomb you aussie, instead of earning money think about the human lives on other side of the world which is more precious then your sheep

My concern is, thousands of these innocent animals have been killed for no reason. If the slaughter was for food, that is still understandable, but if all these lives were wasted, then it's a tragedy, whether they were infected or not. A joint Inquiry should be initiated by the Pakistani and Australian governments to establish the facts.

for no reason?? they were infected this is the first reason

 

[valkyr_96]

Maybe but Pakistan was reported was not designated to receive the shipment it came here only after it was barred from entering the respective Gulf state where on inspection the animals were labelled diseased. Also the person who purchase the shipment was unable to provide a clean bill of health in the given time.......Plenty of videos on animals being stunned....writhing in pain of course they are not being brutalized

 

[Safriz]

This issue has attracted media attention in Pakistan for some time now. The Livestock department says the sheep were infected with a disease and this was the reason behind the culling decision. We saw some footage of sheep dying of some unknown disease, and then authorities came into action.

My concern is, thousands of these innocent animals have been killed for no reason. If the slaughter was for food, that is still understandable, but if all these lives were wasted, then it's a tragedy, whether they were infected or not. A joint Inquiry should be initiated by the Pakistani and Australian governments to establish the facts.

the disease could have been transferred to both humans and indigenous live stock...
The people involved in culling took great risk by manually slaughtering the animals and deserve praise...
it wasnt financially feasible to use any other method of destroying the sheep...

The blame is on Australia,they trid to cheat Pakistan by selling diseased sheep,and when caught they are now pulling a face saving stunt..

 

[neokautilya2]

the disease could have been transferred to both humans and indigenous live stock...
The people involved in culling took great risk by manually slaughtering the animals and deserve praise...
it wasnt financially feasible to use any other method of destroying the sheep...

The blame is on Australia,they trid to cheat Pakistan by selling diseased sheep,and when caught they are now pulling a face saving stunt..

they cud have been killed in a better way....

if that was the last option

 

[Wickerman]

This is probably the dumbest way of culling even if they had to do it.

Why couldn't they take the easy way out and put a bullet through each sheep's head! It would have taken a few hours, and it would mean instant death. It would also mean easier way of culling than having guys run around and drag the animals by their tails and what not. Pffft.

 

[darkinsky]

such cruelty..... see dis video n u will feel dat the sheep case was jus nothing

our money making media which also aired ajmal kasab fake home town

 

[Safriz]

The sheep were rejected upon inspection by many gulf countries,that is proof enough that the sheep were diseased..

Those saying the culling was Brutal..can you suggest an alternative way of culling and destroying such large number of useless and dangerous sheep Pakistan had to deal with?

Australia should compensate Pakistan for the expenses and the media drama they caused..

 

[darkinsky]

This is probably the dumbest way of culling even if they had to do it.

Why couldn't they take the easy way out and put a bullet through each sheep's head! It would have taken a few hours, and it would mean instant death. It would also mean easier way of culling than having guys run around and drag the animals by their tails and what not. Pffft.

because our way of slaughter is more humane and halal way, we could have made them drink acid water, gassed them or electrocuted them but thats not humane

 

[Icarus]

The Sheep were diseased, they bled from the mouth, eyes, nose and ears and showed deformation of the buccal cavity. There was definitely a valid concern that they could carry Foot and Mouth disease. In such a case, how else would you cull them? I believe the method was quite humane as compared to some adopted for getting rid of animals by other countries, such as setting fire to chickens suffering from Bird Flu.

This is probably the dumbest way of culling even if they had to do it.

Why couldn't they take the easy way out and put a bullet through each sheep's head! It would have taken a few hours, and it would mean instant death. It would also mean easier way of culling than having guys run around and drag the animals by their tails and what not. Pffft.

21000 Bullets? That too by hand? That either has to be sarcasm or stupidity of the highest degree..........Homer Simpson just got some stiff competition.