Dear Mr Dog on Moon, this is a sad, tragic and all too true tale. Why livestock are shipped such long distances rather than processed* locally and the meat shipped overseas is beyond any sense.
*Processed is of course a euphemism for killing, gutting and chopping up into saleable portions of dead animal. I may be an omnivore but I don’t hid from the process and I firmly believe it should be done in the least stressful way to the animals in question. Live animal exports are just cruel and barbaric.
Please, Dogonauts, call your federal MPs and Senator Ludwig’s office at Parliament House to register opposition to the cruel trade of live sheep export.
Our politicians are constantly banging on about creating jobs – they could create hundreds by shipping packaged meat instead of the tormented creatures.
We`ve never been on a boat. Our ancestor went on one once. He was branded, herded aboard in chains, beaten regularly and starved while being taken to the other side of the world. Humans can be so inhuman sometimes. Baaaaa.
I can understand people in third world counties being less sensitive to the suffering of animals but, here in Oz, I can only think that such insensitivity of some of our “leaders” is the product of sociopathic and/or psychopathic minds.
(I do not include the primary producers who, by necessity, are unsentimental but not cruel).
If only this cartoon could be shown on all MSM every night for a week, it might get Mr and Mrs McMansions to pay attention to the wicked cruelty of the live animal export trade.
The people doing the trade are the real animals, together with the politicians who allow it.
31 thoughts on “The life and death of a sheep: a poem”
Ken Dally
September 28, 2012 at 1:13 pmDear Mr Dog on Moon, this is a sad, tragic and all too true tale. Why livestock are shipped such long distances rather than processed* locally and the meat shipped overseas is beyond any sense.
*Processed is of course a euphemism for killing, gutting and chopping up into saleable portions of dead animal. I may be an omnivore but I don’t hid from the process and I firmly believe it should be done in the least stressful way to the animals in question. Live animal exports are just cruel and barbaric.
zut alors
September 28, 2012 at 1:28 pmPoignant and right to the heart, Mr Dog.
Please, Dogonauts, call your federal MPs and Senator Ludwig’s office at Parliament House to register opposition to the cruel trade of live sheep export.
Our politicians are constantly banging on about creating jobs – they could create hundreds by shipping packaged meat instead of the tormented creatures.
klewso
September 28, 2012 at 1:50 pmWhat happens when money is trumps.
[And one end dries up.]
drmick
September 28, 2012 at 2:01 pmWe`ve never been on a boat. Our ancestor went on one once. He was branded, herded aboard in chains, beaten regularly and starved while being taken to the other side of the world. Humans can be so inhuman sometimes. Baaaaa.
paddy
September 28, 2012 at 2:02 pmA tragic, tragic bullseye FD.
ianjohnno1
September 28, 2012 at 2:29 pmI can understand people in third world counties being less sensitive to the suffering of animals but, here in Oz, I can only think that such insensitivity of some of our “leaders” is the product of sociopathic and/or psychopathic minds.
(I do not include the primary producers who, by necessity, are unsentimental but not cruel).
Mort
September 28, 2012 at 2:29 pmThe live trade is a total disgrace.
Venise Alstergren
September 28, 2012 at 2:31 pmIf only this cartoon could be shown on all MSM every night for a week, it might get Mr and Mrs McMansions to pay attention to the wicked cruelty of the live animal export trade.
The people doing the trade are the real animals, together with the politicians who allow it.
Microseris
September 28, 2012 at 2:40 pmCalling an amoral profit driven human an animal is an insult to the rest of the animal kingdom.
None I suspect, can sink as low as us.
Holden Back
September 28, 2012 at 2:49 pmAs opposed to that wonderful oxymoron ‘humane slaughter’.