Tuesday, June 07, 2011

A moral ban on the sale of cattle to Indonesia by Australia due to inhumane treatment.

...The ban is the first such move since the the Howard government suspended sending live sheep to Egypt in February 2006 following television footage showing mistreatment of the animals.

The outcry leading to the suspension of cattle exports to Indonesia began on Monday last week when the ABC's Four Corners broadcast footage showing brutal slaughtering methods and mistreatment inside Indonesian abattoirs....