On 2 June 20016 CEO of Australia Infrastructure Developments Pty Ltd talked of the fact that his proposal for an industrial mega port in the Clarence River Estuary through the Port of Yamba would be capable of exporting live cattle for the Asian meat market.
Snapshot of part of power point presentation on 2 June 2016
Local media reported on the prospect on 4 June 2016:
NORTHERN Rivers cattle producers have welcomed preliminary negotiations for a live trade industry to Indonesia which could see the Port of Yamba revived as an export hub.
Exploratory trade inquiries, initiated by Australia-Indonesia Business Council executive member Welly Salim, has strong support from Richmond River Cattle Producers Association members, who sizzled rendang curry and satay sticks at their Casino Beef Week exhibit on Saturday in honour of the potential Indonesian market.
Mr Salim owns Oceanic Cattle Stations, a 15,800-head Tennant Creek station. He also has close business ties with Toowoomba transport tycoons, the Wagner family.
This week he was on a fact-finding mission, collecting data from brahman producers from Coffs Harbour to Tweed Heads.
It was hoped the Northern Rivers market could dovetail with the established Northern Territory live export trade industry, which shuts down over the wet season.
These are some of the live trade cruelties that would ruin the reputations of family-friendly, clean, green towns like Yamba and Iluka.
On the ship transporting cattle......
At some of the abattoirs which receive the exported Australian cattle.....
On the ship transporting cattle......
The
Sydney Morning Herald,
22 June 2016:
ABC's 7.30 program
on Wednesday night aired shocking footage and photographs taken by the
experienced vet, Dr Lynn Simpson, who monitored the health and welfare of
cattle on export ships.
The images depicted
animals lying dead on floors centimetres-thick with excrement, which had also
contaminated food troughs.
Other cattle lay
injured, suffocating or bleeding and barely alive.
"It's just business
as usual on these ships. I expect to see leg injuries, I expect to see
pneumonia, I expect to see animals drenched in faecal matter," Dr Simpson
told the ABC.
At some of the abattoirs which receive the exported Australian cattle.....
1 comment:
Disgusting, the sea voyage of a lifetime covered in your neighbours excrement to a degrading, painful death in the hands of some religious nutter - ban all live export, if they don't want our meat processed here in Australia then go without!
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