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Australia to probe new Indonesia cattle cruelty video

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(Reuters) - Australia will investigate new images appearing to show cattle being mistreated at an Indonesian abattoir, and could reimpose an export ban on the slaughterhouse if it broke animal welfare rules, Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig said on Wednesday.

Australia suspended live cattle exports to Indonesia for a month in 2011 after a video showing cows being beaten and whipped before slaughter was aired on Australian television. The footage outraged many Australians, while the government response angered farmers who said the move jeopardized Australian jobs.

Fresh footage that animal rights activists said showed cows being inhumanely treated in an Indonesian abattoir were broadcast in Australia late on Tuesday, prompting calls for Australia to end the $340 million live cattle trade with its biggest customer, Indonesia.

"There will be mistakes, there will be slips, but the system ensures we can deal with those slips and mistakes," Ludwig told Australian radio.

He said a independent regulator would investigate the latest incident. Under rules introduced after last year's outcry, the Australian government requires exporters to ensure animal welfare standards are met at the Indonesian abattoirs they supply, and can punish firms which ship cows to slaughterhouses where cruelty occurs.

Animal rights group Animals Australia said the latest images came from an Indonesian investigator and showed workers slitting a cow's throat without first stunning it, as required under the new rules.

"Australians will rightfully feel betrayed to know that despite government assurances, the cruel treatment of cattle is continuing," Animals Australia's campaign director Lyn White said.

The Australian Greens said the latest incident proved Australia needed to suspend live animal exports.

"We don't have confidence in the present system," Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon told Australian television.

Industry bodies the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association and the Cattle Council of Australia rejected calls for any wider suspension of animal exports, and said the new rules for trade with Indonesia would allow authorities to fix problems with individual abattoirs.

"Last year when that happened there was no system of regulation which sat underneath the industry in Indonesia," Cattlemen's Association president Luke Bowen said.

"Now we are in a position where there is a system of regulation put in place by the Australian government. If there are problems identified, there is a rule book and there are penalties involved."

(Reporting By Maggie Lu YueYang; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)


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Financial strain leads owners to abandon horses in skyrocketing numbers

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(Daily Mail) The impact of the financial crisis has been felt by businesses and individuals across the country, but now it appears to be taking a devastating toll on Britain's horse population.

Feeling the economic pinch of the current recession, an alarming number of owners have been giving up their cherished animals because they can not afford the increasing costs of care.

Even more worrying, some horses have been chained up and left to fend for themselves without shelter.

The Independent on Sunday reports the country's horse charities are under unprecedented pressure, forced to cope with the dramatic rise in horses left abandoned by their financially-strapped owners.

The country's leading horse charity, Redwings, said it has seen the number of abandoned horses increase from 160 in 2009 to 450 in 2011.

The cost of caring for the large animals has spiked due to the increase in hay and straw prices, while the value of the horses has declined.

This significant financial burden has meant some owners are choosing to sell their animals for meat. A 50 per cent increase in the number of horses killed for their meat between 2009 and 2010 reveals owners are in desperate need for cash.

Other horses have simply been released into the wild or left chained by their owners.

Last year, the RSPCA received a 21 per cent increase in reports of horses left tied up with no shelter - that amounts to an estimated 7,000 calls in 2011.

But the fate of some of these animals has been even more dire. Some young horses are slaughtered before they reach six months, the age at which they must be legally registered.

Auctioneer at European horse dealer Brightwells in Leominster, Herefordshire told the Independent on Sunday: 'There was a huge demand for horses, and some of the breeding was pretty indiscriminate, trading was becoming relentless and then, in the autumn of 2008, the bubble burst.

'I don't like to use the word "cleanse", but the horse industry is a huge business - it was overproducing and it has to be adjusted.'

These sad figures are part of a larger trend that indicates an alarming number of pet owners are no longer able to take care of their animals.

The RSPCA recently reported over 28,000 pets were abandoned in 2011, an increase of a third from the figures in 2007.
By VALENTINA JOVANOVSKI


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Financial strain leads owners to abandon horses in skyrocketing numbers

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: , , , ,

(Daily Mail) The impact of the financial crisis has been felt by businesses and individuals across the country, but now it appears to be taking a devastating toll on Britain's horse population.

Feeling the economic pinch of the current recession, an alarming number of owners have been giving up their cherished animals because they can not afford the increasing costs of care.

Even more worrying, some horses have been chained up and left to fend for themselves without shelter.

The Independent on Sunday reports the country's horse charities are under unprecedented pressure, forced to cope with the dramatic rise in horses left abandoned by their financially-strapped owners.

The country's leading horse charity, Redwings, said it has seen the number of abandoned horses increase from 160 in 2009 to 450 in 2011.

The cost of caring for the large animals has spiked due to the increase in hay and straw prices, while the value of the horses has declined.

This significant financial burden has meant some owners are choosing to sell their animals for meat. A 50 per cent increase in the number of horses killed for their meat between 2009 and 2010 reveals owners are in desperate need for cash.

Other horses have simply been released into the wild or left chained by their owners.

Last year, the RSPCA received a 21 per cent increase in reports of horses left tied up with no shelter - that amounts to an estimated 7,000 calls in 2011.

But the fate of some of these animals has been even more dire. Some young horses are slaughtered before they reach six months, the age at which they must be legally registered.

Auctioneer at European horse dealer Brightwells in Leominster, Herefordshire told the Independent on Sunday: 'There was a huge demand for horses, and some of the breeding was pretty indiscriminate, trading was becoming relentless and then, in the autumn of 2008, the bubble burst.

'I don't like to use the word "cleanse", but the horse industry is a huge business - it was overproducing and it has to be adjusted.'

These sad figures are part of a larger trend that indicates an alarming number of pet owners are no longer able to take care of their animals.

The RSPCA recently reported over 28,000 pets were abandoned in 2011, an increase of a third from the figures in 2007.
By VALENTINA JOVANOVSKI


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Controversy Brewing over Poultry Cage Size

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Several farm organizations, including the American Farm Bureau Federation, have signed a letter to the chairman and ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee calling for the rejection of additional, costly and unnecessary animal rights mandates proposed by the Humane Society of the United States. A bill is being prepared by Oregon Representative Kurt Schrader that would set federal standards for the welfare of egg-laying hens.

The standards would allow for larger, enriched-colony cages and phase out smaller cages over 15 to 18 years at what the United Egg Producers has estimated to be a cost of 4-billion dollars. Opposing groups have estimated the cost to be 10-billion dollars. According to the letter, – the bill is based on an agreement between Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg Producers and counters efforts to unshackle our economy from additional government regulation.

Speaking of the opposition, Chris Huckleberry, legislative director for Representative Schrader, says – this is pretty transformational so it will be a heavy lift regardless of the opposition. He adds, – these groups are doing what they perceive they have to. They are a bunch of well-funded and well-organized groups that know what they are doing.

The other groups that signed the letter are: National Farmers Union, American Sheep Industry Association, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, National Milk Producers Federation, National Pork Producers Council and National Turkey Federation.

NAFB News Service

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Controversy Brewing over Poultry Cage Size

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: , ,



Several farm organizations, including the American Farm Bureau Federation, have signed a letter to the chairman and ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee calling for the rejection of additional, costly and unnecessary animal rights mandates proposed by the Humane Society of the United States. A bill is being prepared by Oregon Representative Kurt Schrader that would set federal standards for the welfare of egg-laying hens.

The standards would allow for larger, enriched-colony cages and phase out smaller cages over 15 to 18 years at what the United Egg Producers has estimated to be a cost of 4-billion dollars. Opposing groups have estimated the cost to be 10-billion dollars. According to the letter, – the bill is based on an agreement between Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg Producers and counters efforts to unshackle our economy from additional government regulation.

Speaking of the opposition, Chris Huckleberry, legislative director for Representative Schrader, says – this is pretty transformational so it will be a heavy lift regardless of the opposition. He adds, – these groups are doing what they perceive they have to. They are a bunch of well-funded and well-organized groups that know what they are doing.

The other groups that signed the letter are: National Farmers Union, American Sheep Industry Association, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, National Milk Producers Federation, National Pork Producers Council and National Turkey Federation.

NAFB News Service

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Livestock treatment debated at Supreme Court

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A state law mandating "humane treatment" of downed livestock headed for the slaughterhouse was viewed with a good measure of concern by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

At issue is whether federal regulations dealing with inspection of domesticated animals about to be killed, processed and sold for human consumption preempt -- or nullify -- California Penal Code 599f.

Several justices noted the good intentions behind the state action, but a majority of the bench expressed concern that it may have gone too far into the traditional federal arena.

"So when the federal law says you can" sometimes sell the meat of downed animals, Chief Justice John Roberts said, "that preempts the rule from the states that says you can't."

The state law became effective in 2009, following shocking undercover video released by the Humane Society. Slaughterhouse workers in San Bernardino County outside Los Angeles were shown dragging, prodding and bulldozing weak, "non-ambulatory" cows into slaughter pens. Water from hoses was used on some cattle lying on their sides, to force them to their feet.

Penal Code 599f would require meat processors to immediately remove downed animals and "humanely" euthanize them. And the sale, purchase or shipment of such animals would be criminally prohibited.

The long-standing Federal Meat Inspection Act also requires animals lying down to be removed but gives discretion to federal inspectors to determine whether the livestock can recover sufficiently and become fit for slaughter and human consumption. That law expressly prohibits any state regulation "in addition to or different from" the federal requirements. It includes cattle, pigs, sheep and goats.

The Supreme Court has long ruled that interstate commerce is under federal jurisdiction, trumping any state efforts to regulate it.

The current case was brought by a meat trade group on behalf of pig farmers in California. The Obama administration is siding with pork producers, a move criticized by a number of animal rights groups.


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Livestock treatment debated at Supreme Court

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: , , ,


A state law mandating "humane treatment" of downed livestock headed for the slaughterhouse was viewed with a good measure of concern by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

At issue is whether federal regulations dealing with inspection of domesticated animals about to be killed, processed and sold for human consumption preempt -- or nullify -- California Penal Code 599f.

Several justices noted the good intentions behind the state action, but a majority of the bench expressed concern that it may have gone too far into the traditional federal arena.

"So when the federal law says you can" sometimes sell the meat of downed animals, Chief Justice John Roberts said, "that preempts the rule from the states that says you can't."

The state law became effective in 2009, following shocking undercover video released by the Humane Society. Slaughterhouse workers in San Bernardino County outside Los Angeles were shown dragging, prodding and bulldozing weak, "non-ambulatory" cows into slaughter pens. Water from hoses was used on some cattle lying on their sides, to force them to their feet.

Penal Code 599f would require meat processors to immediately remove downed animals and "humanely" euthanize them. And the sale, purchase or shipment of such animals would be criminally prohibited.

The long-standing Federal Meat Inspection Act also requires animals lying down to be removed but gives discretion to federal inspectors to determine whether the livestock can recover sufficiently and become fit for slaughter and human consumption. That law expressly prohibits any state regulation "in addition to or different from" the federal requirements. It includes cattle, pigs, sheep and goats.

The Supreme Court has long ruled that interstate commerce is under federal jurisdiction, trumping any state efforts to regulate it.

The current case was brought by a meat trade group on behalf of pig farmers in California. The Obama administration is siding with pork producers, a move criticized by a number of animal rights groups.


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