AS was reported (The Border Mail, September 13), Australia’s Agricultural Minister Barnaby Joyce obviously is out to keep his job by keeping the livestock farmers happy and allowing our stock to be sent to Saudi Arabia to be slaughtered.
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Saudi Arabia will not accept the exporter supply chain assurance system that places responsibility for the welfare of livestock on the exporter — right up to the point of slaughter.
In the article, he was criticised for his actions by both RSPCA Australia chief Heather Neil and Animals Australia campaign director Lyn White.
It appears Mr Joyce is hell bent on re-opening the livestock trade with this country which will almost certainly — if this trade deal goes ahead — again lead to sending livestock to other Middle Eastern countries.
During the past 30 years, Australia has exported 16 million animals and 2.5 million have died during transit. Many that survived the trip were in poor condition.
It is just an inhumane procedure that any civilised country would not be engaged in.
Why do animals have to suffer just for the dollar and to keep an outlet for livestock from the farms in Australia?
Mr Joyce should be made to travel on a ship loaded with cattle to Saudi Arabia to witness the results of his decisions.
— SUMNER BERG,
Beechworth
