From Corriere della Sera:
"Transfers between excrement and disease. The leaders who survive end up in the butcher shop.
New complaint and Lav Handle with care: the suffering of sheep from Australia to the Middle East
LONDON - After a journey of horses from Spain to Puglia and that of cattle from Brazil to Lebanon , a new crossing of the dead ends in the spotlight of Lav, the League antivivisection : the one suffered by sheep in their transfer from Australia to the Middle East. Lav participates in the international coalition "Handle with care '(' Handle '), which has among its objective the documentation and denunciation of the atrocities suffered by animals durations transfer from breeding sites to those of slaughter. The animal rights organizations issued a shocking new video documenting the plight of the sheep during their final journey, an odyssey that can last up to a full month.
TRAVEL CONDITIONS - Several thousand sheep - the complaint Lav - die during the ocean crossing, because dell'inappetenza (after being used to graze the grass does not recognize as food pellets of feed concentrate) but also of salmonellosis due to overcrowding. Then there are injuries and respiratory disease: crowded on ships in appalling conditions and without the ability to move around and lie down, forced to stand on their own excrement for days. "Most of the countries importing Australian sheep - Lav to say - does not meet the guidelines for the transport and slaughter of animals, issued by the World Organisation for Animal Health, that Australia has signed."
PROTEST WITH THE AMBASSADOR - Lav For this reason, asked the Australian government, in a letter sent to the Australian ambassador in Italy, to take concrete measures to improve animal welfare and the replacement of the export of live animals with the export of chilled meat. " The question of live sheep for export to the Middle East was justified in the past by religious reasons, or the need for the meat was "halal", or derived from animals killed in a manner consistent with religious dictates. However, they point out the animal welfare groups, 80% of Australian abattoirs is already certified 'halal' and then the transport of live animals should be made redundant by now.
"BUSINESS WORLD" - The conditional, however, is a must: "The transport of live animals is still a big business mondiale - fa notare Roberto Bennati, vicepresidente della Lav -, malgrado gli evidenti e seri problemi di salute e di sicurezza sanitaria che determina». Che non sono pochi secondo la Lav: lesioni ed ecchimosi, la cosiddetta carne Dfd ( dark, firm and dry , ovvero scura, rigida e secca) provocata dal consumo del glicogeno nei muscoli a causa della spossatezza degli animali dovuta ai lunghi viaggi; la cosiddetta carne Pse ( pale, soft exudative : pallida, molle, essudativa); contaminazioni da salmonella.
MALATTIE DA VIAGGIO - Non solo. I tassi di mortalità degli animali sono maggiori con temperature e umidità elevate. Secondo FAO, the long-distance transport of farm animals is an easy vehicle for spreading of diseases, including malignant hyperthermia, heat stroke, stress syndrome. During long journeys, the animals are forced to stay on the excrement and ammonia gas generated from the urine can irritate the respiratory tract of both animals and men. The meat that comes from these animals is therefore likely to be of low quality meat.
FIGURES - In 2006, according to data released by 'Handle with care', were Australia exported more than 4 million live sheep. 99% of them have traveled to the Middle East. The transport takes place with the boarding da 23 diversi porti australiani; i porti di destinazione sono invece 44. Uno studio ha evidenziato che il viaggio dalle fattorie di allevamento ai porti può variare dai 10 agli 850 chilometri e durare quindi dai 30 minuti alle 25 ore. Le operazioni di imbarco possono durare fino a 5 giorni, a seconda delle dimensioni della nave e degli animali da caricare. Il viaggio in mare, infine, può durare tra i 25 e i 32 giorni a seconda delle condizioni climatiche e dell'eventuale necessità di fare tappe intermedie. La percentuale di mortalità durante i viaggi è dell'1%, una piccola cifra percentuale che corrisponde però a migliaia di animali: 60 mila nel 2003 e 35 mila nel 2007 ."
Ecco il link per watch the video (is the property of the press and I can not put it directly into my blog ):
Finally the atrocities committed on animals are also told by newspapers and not only from animal welfare organizations, and as proof of what I have preferred to include the article in the Corriere.
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