Australia/Middle East: PETA targets live sheep exports

Bahrain's only licensed salughterhouse: Suffering 'caught on film'

PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, told a press conference Australian cattle and sheep were abused while being transported and at Middle East abattoirs and released footage it said was filmed by its undercover activists in Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar showing the livestock being kicked in the face and stabbed in the eye before being slaughtered in a manner that flouted Muslim halal practices.

The group will be staging demonstrations in Kuwait, Egypt and Qatar next week seeking a ban on the lucrative Australian trade worth hundreds of millions of dollars..........

Source: PETA targets live sheep exports

Link: Fight for sheep rights comes to Mideast
Link: LIVE FROM AUSTRALIA: Meat Processing Global editor Chris Harris reports from the opening session of the World Meat Congress in Brisbane Australia.
Link: PETA live export campaign targets Middle East
Link: Stench from cattle ship drives Beirutis indoors
Link: Suffering 'caught on film'


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