A Saudi bought the sheep b4 they left Aus, and organised the shipping,
the ship is Dutch
**** on them instead
"Rainer Wolfcastle" wrote in message
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http://www.anc.org/farm/farm_article...003_0919_sheep
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3102566.stm
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| Avoid Australia if you are a tourists. These people behave like North
| Koreans in their inhumanity.
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| Australian sheep on 'death ship'
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| Australia earns about US$125m a year from live sheep exports
| A row is raging in Australia over the fate of more than 50,000
| unwanted sheep stranded in gruelling temperatures in the Middle East.
| An animal welfare group said on Friday that the sheep should be put
| down, amid claims that thousands of the animals had already died.
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| The sheep arrived in Saudi Arabia for import five weeks ago, but were
| rejected because the kingdom claimed 6% of them were suffering from
| scabby mouth disease.
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| This was 1% more than the Saudi Government agreed to allow.
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| According to Hugh Wirth, Australian president of the Royal Society for
| the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 3,500 of the sheep have now
| died.
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| He said the sheep were facing temperatures of 45-50 degrees centigrade
| (113-122 degrees Fahrenheit) .
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| "It's a fairly hefty option to kill 57,000 sheep, but the fact of life
| is, what alternative have we got?" he said in an interview with ABC
| radio.
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| Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown agreed that the sheep should be
| put down.
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| "It's just horrific that this ship has been turned into a death
| ship,'' Senator Brown told reporters.
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| "There are hundreds of sheep dying every day and the rate will
| increase."
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| 'Premature' panic
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| But the chief executive of Australia's Livestock Export Corporation
| insisted the sheep were not in particular danger.
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| "They are in good condition under the circumstances and for that
| reason we feel it would be premature to put the sheep down,'' said
| Kevin Sheill.
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| "We are certainly not at that stage, there is a vet and a stockman
| with them with plenty of supplies, the ship is a bit like a floating
| feedlot," he said.
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| Mr Sheill said negotiations were under way with another Middle East
| country to accept the cargo