Why does PETA oppose live export?
Millions of sheep discarded by the Australian wool industry are shipped to the Middle East for slaughter every year. They are packed onto enormous, multitiered ships where severe overcrowding causes many to be trampled to death or to starve when they cannot reach food and water troughs. Treated as mere cargo, sick or injured sheep may be thrown overboard to drown or be eaten by sharks or tossed alive into shipboard grinders. Those who survive the grueling weeks- or months-long voyage in filthy, disease-ridden conditions have their throats slit without being stunned first. Live export is completely unnecessary. Australia has the facilities and the workers to conduct its own halal slaughter and could easily ship chilled or frozen meat to the Middle East instead of live animals.
