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Australian sheep export to Bahrain meets “bloody & miserable end” in Pakistan

March 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

22,000 sheep culled in secret KARACHI,  Pakistan––The Livestock Department of the state government of Sindh, Pakistan on October 20,  2012 killed the last of 22,000 sheep who were shipped from Fremantle, Australia to Bahrain on August 4,  2012 aboard the Wellard Rural Exports transporter Ocean Drover,  Malir district deputy commissioner Kazi Jan Muhammad told Ghulam […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Food, Hooved stock, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pakistan, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Welfare Tagged With: Cormo Express, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Ocean Drover, P.K. Livestock

Sheep & cattle stranded at sea by Suez Canal blockage are moving again

March 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

3,000-year-old livestock shipping route opened by Pharoahs is unblocked             ISMAILIA, Egypt––Tens of thousands of sheep,  cattle,  and other live animals stranded for up to six days aboard more than 20 transport vessels are moving again through  the Suez Canal,  as of March 29,  2021. Egyptian Lieutenant General Osama Rabei,  heading the Suez Canal Authority,  […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Romania, Sheep & goats, Spain, Turkey, Welfare Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Elbeik, Gerit Weidinger, Karim Allah, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Suez Canal

The poop on live transport, whaling, & Ramadan 2018

May 2, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Old ships,  ancient customs             FREMANTLE,  Australia––Seventy thousand Australian sheep aboard the 38-year-old livestock carrier Al Messilah,  or anyhow those who survive the journey,  are due to reach Kuwait on May 14,  2018,  according to VesselFinder.com. The voyage continues a trade that Animals Australia likens to whaling in terms of cruelty and obsolescence,  but which […]

Filed Under: Africa, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, North Africa, Organizations, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Welfare Tagged With: David Littleproud, Glenys Oogjes, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Natalie Kotsios, Victoira Laurie

Greyhound racing in Macau, China runs toward oblivion

June 10, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Greyhound Racing New South Wales charges 179 “industry participants” with illegally supplying the only track in China          RHODES,  New South Wales,  Australia;  MACAU,  China––Charges brought against 179 Australian “industry participants” for allegedly illegally exporting greyhounds to Macau appear likely to hasten the anticipated imminent end of greyhound racing at the Macau Canidrome,  the oldest […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, China, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Greyhound racing, Ireland, Isles, Meat issues, Organizations, Organizations, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Albano Martins, Anima Macau, Animals Australia, Canidrome, Grey 2K, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton

Fallen crane & stampede take spotlight from haj animal victims

September 29, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

At least 900,000 animals killed among 24 nations          RIYADH,  Saudi Arabia––After decades of global controversy over animal transport and slaughter in connection with Eid al Adha sacrificial rites,  the animal victims of the 2015 Islamic pilgrimage season went almost unnoticed amid furor over human victims. The start of the pilgrimage season,   called the haj […]

Filed Under: Africa, Agriculture, Algeria, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Bangladesh, Cattle & dairy, Christianity, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Egypt, Ethiopia, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Judaism, Kenya, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Malaysia, Meat issues, Mediterranean, North Africa, Organizations, Other, Pakistan, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, Turkey, Welfare Tagged With: Akif Kichloo, Eid al Adha, haj, Lyn White, Mecca, Merritt Clifton, Mohammed, Qurbani, Riyadh

Did botched pre-Ramadan sheep shipment start an epidemic?

June 2, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Georgian officials deny disease outbreak ever occurred TBILISI, Georgia––How many sheep were casualties of a botched pre-Ramadan live transport from the nation of Georgia to Saudi Arabia and Jordan in late May 2015? The authentic toll might never be known. Exported for ritual sacrifice, the sheep instead fell ill in transit, were refused at several ports, […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Central Asia, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Left, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Eid, Feast of Atonement, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Ramadan

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