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Live export

The global live export trade has been built on an acceptance of suffering - sending animals on risky journeys halfway around the world just to be killed for their meat when they arrive in destination countries. Live export is not only cruel, it is also unnecessary.

Sheep in very overcrowded pen
Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur

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    Summer live export ban at risk

    Australian sheep will once again be put at risk of 'cooking alive' at sea. Government bureaucrats are winding back the three month 'summer ban' which will put sheep back on the water at the deadliest time of year. Urge your…

    23 March 2022

  • Live export

    Live export ships exposed

    World-first footage: animals are suffering and being cooked alive on live export ships. Help shut down this illegal cruelty.

    25 January 2022

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